Wednesday 16th October “Anti-semitism, Anti-Racism and the Struggle for Palestine”
7pm Central United Reform Church, Norfolk Street S1 2JB Organised by Sheffield Jews Against Israeli Apartheid. A discussion with David Feldman, director of the Birkbeck Institute for the study of Anti-Semitism. David Feldman is one of the authors of the Jerusalem Declaration on Anti-Semitism which was published in 2021.
Thursday 17th October “Indigenous Peoples vs False Solutions to the climate and environmental emergencies”
7.15 – 9.00 pm at Central United Reformed Church, Norfolk Street, Sheffield S1 2JB (opposite the Crucible Theatre). Global Justice Sheffield will be holding a public meeting with speaker, Callum Russell of Survival International, who works closely with the Hongana Manyawa people of Indonesia.
A 20-minute video will reveal the realities of Indigenous people’s lives, and their struggle to defend the world’s carbon-absorbing forests and grasslands against extractive industries.
More information is on the attached leaflet and also at https://groups.globaljustice.org.uk/sheffield/category/events/
The public meeting will be preceded by our AGM, 6.30 – 7.15 pm.
We look forward to seeing you there. Best wishes, Paul for Global Justice Sheffield
Saturday 19th October “No to Hassock Field!” Detention Centre protest
Join the national demonstration calling for the closure of the Hassockfield women’s Immigration Detention Centre. Organised by South Yorkshire Migration and Asylum Action Group (SYMAAG) https://www.eventbrite.com/e/no-to-hassockfield-national-demo-sheffield-coaches-tickets-1024010191047
Coaches leave Sheffield at 0915am from The HUBS, 6 Paternoster Row Sheffield City Centre S1 and returning to the same location at 4:30pm. We’ll be joining the demo at Hassockfield from 12pm to 2pm. Seats on the coach are on a pay what you can basis though we do ask for people to sign up to give us a sense of numbers and if possible donate up to £10 to help us to cover the costs. There will be a noise protest with whistles, pots and pans etc, we will be bringing earplugs for anyone who may need them.
This is event is jointly organised with Student Action for Refugees (STAR) Sheffield, People and Planet, Voice for the Voiceless Immigration Detention Yorkshire (VVIDY) and SYMAAG.
Saturday 19th October PSC Conference: Trade Unions Building Solidarity with Palestine
10am – 4.30pm Hamilton House, Mabledon Place, WC1H 9BB London
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Speakers:
- Nadia Habash, President of the Palestinian Engineers’ Syndicate
- Dr Samia Al-Botmeh, Palestinian academic at the economics department at Birzeit University, and BDS activist
- Riya Al-Sanah, Palestinian researcher and organiser with the Workers in Palestine initiative
- Fran Heathcote, General Secretary PCS
- Jeremy Corbyn MP
- Phil Clarke, President NEU
- Liz Wheatley, Chair International Committee UNISON
- Dooley Harte, Pension Official UCU
- Ben Jamal, Director PSC
- Louise Regan, Chair PSC & NEU EC
Trade union members have been at the forefront of the fight back against the increasingly genocidal actions of the state of Israel. Including the tens of thousands who have joined the huge national protest in London and around the country, leading actions of all kinds, including in their workplace and in their local areas, demanding an end to British state, corporate and institutional complicity in Israel’s crimes.
We need to continue the fight and it is our duty as trade unionists and activists in the UK to escalate our solidarity, for freedom, equality and justice for the Palestinian people. This conference will hear from key Palestinian voices, as well as leaders of the UK trade union movement, on what we need to do next in solidarity with Palestine. This includes stepping up the divestment campaigns targeting all institutions complicit with Israel’s crimes. There also needs to be renewed focus on the fightback against normalisation, to challenge the attempts to sidetrack the core solidarity work against Israel’s genocidal assault. And just as importantly we need to continue to engage and highlight the ongoing campaigns, taking place in all unions, to create the space and offer resources to support activists relentlessly championing justice, equality and freedom for the Palestinian people in their unions.
Saturday 19th October Pitch and Strike
11am-3pm Handsworth Grange Community Centre S13 9HJ Celebrating women’s activism in football and in coal mining communities
Saturday 19th October Sheffield Demonstration “End the Genocide”
start @ Endcliffe Park 12.30pm ending with Town Hall rally 2pm Organised by Sheffield Palestine Coalition against Israeli Apartheid, demanding an end to the genocide in Palestine and attacks on Lebanon and Yemen. Flyer attached. Please join us and spread the word.
Tuesday 22nd October Sheffield TUC Delegate Meeting
7pm Trades and Labour Club, Dule Street S2 5QQ Open to non-delegates who are trade union members. Not a delegate? Ask your branch to affiliate to Sheffield TUC and nominate you as a delegate!
Saturday 26th October Tommy Robinson counter-protest in London
*Don’t let history repeat itself – Stop Tommy Robinson, Stop the Far Right • National Demonstration, Saturday 26 October in Central London • Buy your coach tickets now*
_Book tickets now:_ https://bit.ly/TR-Oct26
Sheffield Stand up to racism says: “Nazi Tommy Robinson has called a national demonstration in London on 26 October. In July, Robinson brought 20k racists onto the streets. Within days there were pogroms and racist attacks across the country. Our movement was able to push back the fascists in August, but the threat hasn’t gone away. We can’t allow Robinson and his Nazi pals to build a street movement that will try to intimidate and attack the most vulnerable in society. Like in August, we need to demoralise their movement with our movement – but on a much larger scale. Every person who came to the protests in Sheffield should come to London to help outnumber the racists.”
Tuesday 29th October Sheffield Stop The War public meeting
7pm United Reform Church Norfolk Street S1 2JB
Monday 4th November “Zero Tolerance Now!”
5:30pm, The Showroom – Sheffield City Centre A Public Debate on Ending Workplace Sexual Harassment. Organised by: Dr Ruth Beresford, Dr Bob Jeffery and Dr Valeria Insarauto
You are warmly invited to an ESRC Festival of Social Science event to discuss and debate ending sexual harassment in the workplace. Tea, coffee and refreshments provided. Join us for a panel discussion with Sarah Woolley (General Secretary of the Bakers, Food and Allied Workers Union), Dr Ruth Beresford (Sheffield Hallam University) and Dr Valeria Insarauto (University of Sheffield), and a public debate on ending workplace sexual harassment. We invite workers, trade unionists and all members of the public to get involved and have their say.
For more information on the event and to book your tickets, click here: https://festivalofsocialscience.com/events/zero-tolerance-now-a-public-debate-on-ending-workplace-sexual-harassment/ (Spaces are limited, so it is essential to book a ticket)
All the best, Bob Jeffery Senior Lecturer in Sociology Anti-Casualisation Officer – UCU Sheffield Hallam
Saturday 9th Nov 2024 “Climate Jobs, Climate Justice – working together for the changes we need”
Dayschool on Climate Jobs and Justice at Sheffield Hallam University. A South Yorkshire-wide event in autumn involving Trade Unions and with attendance from working people.
An action-focused event, lots of workshopping, getting past stating that ‘climate jobs are a good idea’ to see what action is needed by authorities, campaigners, unions, employers and begin to organise for it.
Workshops on different themes, along the lines of “What do we want?” and “How do we get it?”, led by 2-3 organisations, interactive to develop ideas on what is needed next.
Key themes of the conference, to be explored in plenary (added 10-9-24):
- a) Tackling the Climate and Nature Emergency needs work locally to make food, housing and
transport work better for people and planet, and to provide care for nature and people – this is what
we mean by “climate jobs”, that rapidly reduce emissions and create resilience.
- b) We’re making global justice links – the South Yorkshire economy creates crisis and suffering elsewhere in the world – so we make links with allies to de-militarise, divest, decolonise, shift the focus to human needs, the commons and whole system thinking.
- c) We’re making links with organised labour around decent work and real wealth – we need jobs that are properly paid, secure, skilled, and fair, where people have a say in their future, and that build real wealth for communities – so we make links with allies against low pay and precarious, dangerous work, and for community wealth building and youth empowerment.
Saturday 16th November Sheffield Nablus Live Link Concert
7pm -11pm Crookes Social club, Mulehouse Road, Crookes, Sheffield S10 1TD. Organised by the Sheffield Nablus Twinning Association
Saturday 16th November Better Buses S. Yorks workshop
We hope to hold a face to face meeting/workshop to kickstart our response to the consultation process. The event will be at SADACCA on the Wicker probably from 1pm – 5pm. Open to all our supporters! Please make every effort to come along. More details later.