Fuel For Thought: Robbing the Poor
Start: 2024-02-15 18:30:00 UTC Greenwich Mean Time : Dublin, Edinburgh, Lisbon, London (GMT+00:00)
End: 2024-02-15 19:45:00 UTC Greenwich Mean Time : Dublin, Edinburgh, Lisbon, London (GMT+00:00)
Event Type:
Virtual
A virtual link will be communicated before the event.
Host contact info amalric@fuelpovertyaction.org.uk
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FPA EDUCATIONAL SERIES
Fuel For Thought
from fuel poverty to climate justice
Fuel For Thought is a series of monthly collective learning sessions run by Fuel Poverty Action. A space to share research and lived experience, tackle lies, clear up confusion and answer questions.
Session 5: Robbing the Poor - 15th February, 6.30pm
At our fifth session we'll be talking about in-work fuel poverty, energy debt and disability, how the Government actively undermines our ability to live warmly, and what we can do to keep each other safe. Some of the topics we expect to address:
- Why are so many people struggling or getting into debt to pay their energy bills?
- Why are disabled people especially hard hit?
- How have people in poverty and disabled people fought and won rights in the past - and how can that continue?
- Is it the same people robbing the poor and trashing the planet?
Speakers include:
Ellen Lebethe - Vice-President of National Pensioners Convention (NPC); Chair of London Ethnic Minorities Group and Lambeth Pensioners Action Group
Paula Peters - Disability Rights Activist with Disabled People Against Cuts (DPAC)
Alex Considine - Organiser with Don’t Pay UK and Extinction Rebellion; Fuel Poverty Action member
Stephanie Martin - Organiser with Unison and Morning Star Women Readers & Supporters Group (Scotland)
Click here for more information about the Fuel For Thought sessions.
This project is unfunded. While the sessions are free, donations to the project are warmly appreciated (please specify 'for Fuel For Thought') and will enable us to broaden the reach and scope of the sessions.
