When The Chancellor unveiled his plans for the economy, we had been promised a Green Recovery but the reality fell far short. The £3bn the Government plans to spend on green jobs and home insulation is tiny compared with ongoing public funding for fossil fuels, not least the £27bn to be spent on road building. This should be a defining…
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To close the 2020 Festival of Debate, a Question Time-style event exploring the UK’s response to the Covid-19 crisis so far and where we go from here. Audiences will be able to watch the live stream and submit questions for the panel to respond to. The show will be live streamed on Facebook Live & YouTube Thursday from 7-8.30pm, and…
Sheffield Palestine Solidarity Campaign has regular benefit dinners in support of the Gaza Children Project. They enable people to get together, catch up with news and express solidarity with Palestinian co-workers. Covid-19 has halted that for the time being, however we still need to eat and we can also express our solidarity, so this event is a fundraising takeaway…
Join expert guest speakers including investigative journalist Jonathan Cook in a monthly webinar series to explore the role of the Jewish National Fund in the historic and ongoing ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people. From the Nakba to today, the JNF has been a key agent in the colonization of Palestine. The webinar will also explore how the JNF has…
Since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic, African countries have received hundreds of billions of dollars in loans and grants from global financial institutions, humanitarian agencies, and donor countries. The money is intended to enable African countries to reduce the spread of the virus and to alleviate hardship and poverty. But governments in several African countries are…
UnShut is a festival of experimental and radical new performance work, which began in Sheffield in 2017. UnShut 2020 offers twelve performances over three days, including a worldwide street clean, a revolution by postcard, intimate performance, and building a theatre from scratch. UnShut aims to connect people from all walks of life, and bring them together through live art. To…
