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Topics

Fighting Global Poverty - building a global justice movement
(general talk on who we are and what we do and how people can make a difference. Can be catered for school children of all ages, university students, local groups or trade union branches)
Financial crisis
(effect on global poverty, governments prioritizing business over people, history of financial architecture in relation to current situation, financial institutions vs. public interest)
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Trade justice
(new generation of EU Free Trade Agreements, new Global Europe strategy, agreements perpetuating poverty, World Trade Organisation - 10 years after Seattle, food sovereignty & trade agreements)
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Supermarket power
(exploitation of workers, supply chains & producers in developing countries, competition commission, competition commission enquiry into supermarket behaviour, big business & the creation of poverty, corporate accountability, corporate social responsibility, Anti-Tesco campaign, cut flower industry)
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Garment workers/sweatshops/fashion industry
(Love Fashion Hate Sweatshops campaign, exploitation of workers, sweatshops, poverty wages)
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Tax dodging
(corporations dodging tax, stealing more out of poor countries than west gives in aid)
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Palestine
(war on Gaza, War on Want partners resisting the Occupation, corporate complicity in the Occupation, role of the UK government, arms trade and Israel, global movement for boycott, divestment and sanctions)
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Iraq-Afghanistan/privatisation of war/private armies
(corporations profiting from war and conflict, private military and security companies unaccountable for murders in Iraq & Afghanistan, human rights abuses, the need for regulation of these firms from the UK government)
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UK NGOs and the global justice movement - a War on Want perspective
A more academic talk catered for university students
Campaigning as an antidote to apathy
A more academic talk catered for university students

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