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Amnesty Inter­na­tional are cam­paign­ing for tighter arms reg­u­la­tions around the world. Below is their statement -

Every day at least 1,500 people die from armed viol­ence. Count­less more are maimed, raped, repressed or forced from their homes by human rights abusers armed with guns, bombs and tanks.

These weapons are acquired through a global trade sub­ject to less reg­u­la­tion than that in bana­nas, dino­saur bones and post­age stamps.
Email UK party lead­ers: tell them to sup­port action on arms

When you think that every year two bul­lets are pro­duced for every per­son on the planet, it is quite clear that the arms trade is out of con­trol. There has never been a greater need to tighten reg­u­la­tions on the arms trade than now.

That’s why we’re sup­port­ing Amnesty’s cru­cial cam­paign to ensure the world agrees to a bul­let­proof Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) this July. I hope you too will do all you can to ensure the UK plays its part in mak­ing this hap­pen.  

As a first step, we need UK party lead­ers to stand up and declare their sup­port for a strong treaty. Send them a mes­sage about the Arms Trade Treaty now

The Arms Trade Treaty could be one of the most import­ant pieces of law ever to be secured.  A suc­cess­ful Treaty could quite lit­er­ally save lives. It could stop bloody con­flicts, and pre­vent mil­lions of women, men and chil­dren from being ter­ror­ised from their homes by stop­ping the sup­ply of weapons to those that would use them to com­mit atrocities.

It’s up to all of us to seize this oppor­tun­ity. Make sure our party lead­ers sup­port action on arms”

Claimate Con­nec­tions are run­ning a free work­shop on Sat­urday Janu­ary 28^th from 11am to 12:30pm at BPEC with the aim of explor­ing ideas
and actions around cli­mate change. The work­shop will be delivered by two
facil­it­at­ors, aims to be very par­ti­cip­at­ive, will make extens­ive use of pho­tos and
activ­it­ies and very little text based presentations.

Indi­vidu­als and groups will be encour­aged to make the links between local and global stor­ies around cli­mate
change and to agree on actions or pledges that they can make, even if the action is to gain more aware­ness of the issues raised.

Refresh­ments will be provided and they can pay for a child minder or inter­preter if needed.

For more inform­a­tion on Cli­mate Con­nec­tions please visit their homepage here.

If you would like to attend the work­shop please email Paolo at
gpaolo.boldrini@bpec.org or call 01273 766610 to book a place.

Last month the online peti­tion and causes com­munity “Care2” won some won­der­ful suc­cesses through their e-petitions, and have helped make a real dif­fer­ence around the world.

They helped stop a Shark Cull in Aus­tralian waters,

Con­vince the US State Depart­ment to review a con­trver­sial pro­posed pipeline,

Secure the free­dom of two imprisoned journ­al­ists in South Sudan,

Con­vince West Hol­ly­wood to ban the sale of fur products,

and free “Tony the Tiger”!

Visit their site and read about the great work being done around the world, and get involved yourself!

Food Sov­er­eignty Week — Starts 24^th Octo­ber : Spe­cial Interest Stor­ies daily

This week we will be bring­ing you a selec­tion of talks from Lon­don and Brighton about food sovereignty

For the first time in human his­tory, over a bil­lion people have been offi­cially clas­si­fied as liv­ing in hun­ger. This record total is not a con­sequence of poor global har­vests or nat­ural dis­asters. Hun­ger on this scale is the res­ult of a global eco­nomy in which hun­dreds of mil­lions of small farm­ers, fish­er­folk, pas­tor­al­ists and indi­gen­ous people have faced ruin through the hijack­ing of the global food sys­tem by large agribusi­ness and food retailers.

Together with its part­ners in Brazil, Sri Lanka and Mozam­bi­que, and in the wider move­ment of La Via Campes­ina, War on Want is com­mit­ted to the altern­at­ive model of ‘food sov­er­eignty’, an approach to the food crisis that pri­or­it­ises people’s right to food, agro-ecology and a global food sys­tem free of cor­por­ate control. 

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