Sheffield - Global Day of Action for Climate Justice

Start: Saturday, November 06, 2021•12:00 PM

Join the Global Day of Action for Climate Justice!

On 6 November 2021, as world leaders meet in Glasgow for the COP26 Global Climate Summit, towns and cities across the world will take to the streets demanding global climate justice.

In Sheffield we will be meeting at 12pm at Devonshire Green, marching to City Hall at 1pm, and holding a rally at City Hall at 3pm.

Stay up to date using our facebook event here.

  • Assemble 12pm at Devonshire Green, March at 1pm, Rally at City Hall

  • Aim is to organise as big a rally/demonstration as possible in Sheffield on the 6th Nov. Create an extravaganza of musicians, performers, creatives at the main event outside City Hall.

    • Devonshire Green:

      • Mobilise in blocks to get maximum participation & show the intersections of climate justice – eg trade unionists, community groups, disability activists, anti-racist/migration, BLM, TTK groups, teachers & schools, lecturers & students, housing groups - to name a few. Each bloc can decide on a banner at the front of their bloc, create an area of the protest that is unique. Each bloc can decide on the message they want to shout out.

        1. STUC - called for a TU block

        2. Students at University - blocs meet at Universities, marching to Devonshire Green to get there for 12pm

        3. SUTR, TTK, SYMAAG etc. another bloc.

        4. Youth Strikers

        5. XR Samba Band at the back.

    • Can you help with the costs?

      • Planning the march with p.a. system and screens, and putting on various events, plus printing and designing leaflets, stickers and posters all costs money. We’ve set up a Sheffield COP26 Campaign Fund and we need donations from union branches, climate/environment groups, community campaign groups – and even from individuals too!

        • Please make bacs payment to Sheffield Trade Union Council ref COP 26 Campaign Fund account no: 59109499   sort code: 60-83-01

    • We need stewards!

      • Our marches always run smoothly thanks to an army of stewards who can deal with traffic and help steer the march through the city centre. Can you volunteer to help?

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Full Programme:

  • 14th October

    • ‘Marcha a Glasgow’

  • Welcome Spanish climate marchers who will be passing through Sheffield, on their way to Glasgow to demand Climate Justice at COP26.

https://marcha-a-glasgow.net/en/home/

Join us in a ceremony outside Sheffield Town Hall, on Thursday 14th November, at 9am. Bring your banners.

  • For those who would like to walk some of the way with them, they will set off on their march to Barnsley at 10am, following the 5 Weirs Way for the first 6 miles to Meadowhall - on to Ecclesfield via the side of Concord Park, towards Chapeltown and then to Hoyland.

  • 22nd - 23rd October

    • Global Climate Justice Summit.

  • We hope to see you all at the Sheffield/S. Yorks (SCCUG) COP26 Coalition Global Climate Summit on the 22nd and 23rd October. Please sign up for the film showing on the 22nd and also book in to be able to attend the summit/workshop activities we have planned for the summit on the 23rd.

  • With just two weeks to go before our Global Climate Justice Summit, please do also forward this on to your groups, family and friends. We have all this information on our Facebook page - @SCCUGCOP26Coalition for you to share on your social media pages too.

https://www.facebook.com/events/991466858376360?ref=newsfeed

COP26 will be a moment in history that marks a crossroads for humanity. Without clear and profound action for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, the ability to keep global heating below 2 degrees, let alone 1.5 degrees will be impossible, which is why UN Secretary General António Guterres has declared the latest IPCC Report a 'Code Red for Humanity'. Yet each of the previous 25 COPs has failed to halt the rise in atmospheric carbon and failed to fulfil their financial pledges to support the Most Affected People and Areas (MAPA) in the ability to adapt to the effects of climate change let alone the losses and damages from it.

  • Global heating risks the lives of billions, threatening widespread crop failure, migration, and conflict. These effects are being felt right now by people living in countries who have contributed the least to the crisis yet suffer the worst consequences. At the same time these areas face the highest levels of inequality, poverty, debt, and continuous disadvantage from unequal trading systems and neocolonialism.

  • COP26 will require not just a Just Transition, but a Globally Just Transition. This weekend (and longer) aims to put Global Justice onto the local stage, to direct the attention of our media towards those who are suffering largely unnoticed, and to create an agenda for action in the last weeks leading up to COP26 and the Global Day for Climate Justice on 6th November. The following events will be taking place:


  • Friday 22nd October: Film screening of ‘The Ants and the Grasshopper’ At Sheffield Quaker Meeting House

  • The Global Climate Justice Summit will be ‘kicked off’ on Friday 22nd October with a film screening of ‘The Ants and the Grasshopper’

    • The film will be screened at 7.30pm Sheffield Quaker Meeting House, 10 Saint James' Street, S1 2EW and also available as a flexible online viewing option to ensure the film is accessible for everyone. This documentary, ten years in the making, weaves together the most urgent themes of our times: climate change, gender and racial inequality, the gaps between the rich and the poor, and the ideas that groups around the world have generated in order to save the planet.

Trailer for the film: https://vimeo.com/569924110

  • Eventbrite for the in person screening:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/film-screening-the-ants-and-the-grasshopper-in-person-tickets-179739173707?fbclid=IwAR1aUajrX6ECeISpNZ3KdjHddEF43ae_0mvm4Kg1yBZTlWNkpFqdhnpVi4E

  • Eventbrite for the online screening:

For this option a link to watch the film will be sent to your email address on 22nd October 2021. The film can be watched from 6pm (GMT+1) on that day and will be available for the whole of the weekend until 23:59pm 24th October 2021. This option has a donation suggestion of £3.50.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/film-screening-the-ants-and-the-grasshopper-online-screening-tickets-180010776077?fbclid=IwAR2SXTQhs_zOy-Irdw3AVeRwEFlN27b7F2j5pCoMbcZWpQYEEPfz64cg4Zw

  • Saturday 23rd October: Day of workshops “Thinking globally and acting locally: discussions on Climate Justice”

https://www.walkwithamal.org/

  • Amal enters Sheffield the traditional way, on a barge. As she floats into Victoria Quays, communities are out in force to greet her in the city.

  • As the day unfolds Amal discovers giant washing lines hung with messages of welcome across Tudor Square and a traditional sheffield brass band with a twist, playing all the cities favourite songs.

    • This will be an opportunity for the Coalition to welcome Amal at the docks and to publicise November the 6th.

  • 1st November - All Day

    • National Banner Drop Day - Global Day of Action.

      • On Monday 1st Nov, we invite you to Raise the Banners for Climate Justice! This is the day that World Leaders will meet in Glasgow for COP26.

        • After 26years of UN climate talks (COPs), the climate crisis is escalating around the world. Justice won’t easily be handed to us by world leaders. We are the ones who have to demand it.

      • This action is for everyone - and a perfect way to get communities, schools, faith groups and neighbourhoods talking about climate change and to have their voices heard. If you are coming to the demonstration on the 5th, you could bring the banners with you.

      • The aim is to cover the streets of Sheffield on November 1st - the beginning of the climate talks - with banners that have YOUR messages of climate justice!

      • Read the national COP26 Coalition’s short overview of their vision and plans for the day here.

Please email sccugroup@gmail.com and let us know who, where and when you will be hanging your banner in Sheffield?

  • Take a picture and send it into our Facebook page @SCCUGCOP26Coalitiion on the day.

  • 5th November - Details to be confirmed

    • YS4C/FFF Strike Day

  • Students/TU day of action.

    • We will be organising a student/trade union meeting soon to discuss the day further.

  • 6th Nov - Day of Action (see above)

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We are living through a period of multiple breaking points - from climate to covid to racism. We know that these crises not only overlap, but share the same cause. 
While no one can escape the impacts of these crises, those who have done least to cause them suffer the most. Across the world, the poorest people and communities of colour are too often those bearing the brunt of the climate crisis. From coastal villages in Norfolk whose sea-defences are eroding faster than ever, to people living by the Niger Delta rivers blackened by oil spillage. 


The Era of Injustice is Over: Our Time is Now

Justice won’t be handed to us by world leaders or delivered by corporations. So far, governments have done too little too late: colluding with corporations and hiding behind green washed ‘solutions’ that actually don’t exist yet, that don’t address the scale of the problem, and in many cases rely on more exploitation of people and the planet.

The transformative solutions that we need to survive and build a more just and fair world can only be brought about through collective action, solidarity and coordination, from our local communities and international levels. We are bringing together movements from across the world to build power for system change - indigenous movements, frontline communities, trade unions, racial justice groups, youth strikers, landworkers, peasants, NGOs, grassroots community campaigns, feminist movements, faith groups.

Wherever you are in the world, now is the time to join the fight for climate justice. We need all hands on deck: in workplaces, communities, schools, hospitals and across national borders.

6 November: Join us one of the actions being organised across the world or organise your own so that we can be loud and clear to the world leaders discussing our future: we want climate justice now!

COP26: Why does it matter?

World leaders and experts will meet in Glasgow in November at the global climate talks, COP26. The decisions made at COP26 will shape how governments respond (or not) to the climate crisis. They will decide who is to be sacrificed, who will escape and who will make a profit. COP26 is happening at a crucial moment in history. Across the world and across movements, we are seeing a new wave of resistance, global solidarity and grassroots organising. We have a unique opportunity to rewire our system as we recover from the pandemic. We can either intensify the crisis to the point of no return, or lay the foundations for a just world where everyone’s needs are met.

No More Cooking The Books: No To Fossil Fuels, Net-zero And False Solutions!
  • Fight For 1.5
  • We Need Real Zero, Not Net Zero
  • Keep It In The Ground: No New Fossil Fuel Investments Or Infrastructure
  • Reject False Solutions: No To Carbon Markets And Risky And Unproven Technologies
Rewire The System: Start The Justice Transition Now!
  • Start The Justice Transition
Global Climate Justice: Reparations And Redistribution To The Global South!
  • Fair share of effort from all rich countries
  • Cancel the debts of Global South by all creditors
  • Grant-based climate finance for the Global South
  • Reparations for the loss and damage already happening in the Global South

Find out more about our movement and message: cop26coalition.org/about/what-do-we-want/

Join us for the People’s Summit: 7-10th Sep: cop26coalition.org/peoples-summit/