EventsUpcoming events
War on Want's upcoming events are listed below — accounts of our recent events can be found here.
UK wide Bangladesh solidarity actions
We will be announcing a day of action soon. Please watch this space!
Consumer Kids: Youth Culture and Consumerism Panel Discussion
Wednesday 22 May 2013, 9:15pm (following the 8pm performance of Cuddles)
Ovalhouse, 52-54 Kennington Oval, London SE11 5SW
Join a panel of leading opinion makers, campaigners and academics to unpick the structures of our consumerist society and discuss what it means for the future of our children.
Read more: Consumer Kids: Youth Culture and Consumerism Panel Discussion
Screening of The Machinists
Thursday 30 May at 7pm
Herringham Hall, Regent's College, Inner Circle, Regent's Park, London NW1 4NS
War on Want is supporting a special screening of The Machinists in memory of the 1000+ people who lost their lives in the Rana Plaza factory collapse in Bangladesh last month. The documentary features War on Want partner, The National Garment Workers Federation of Bangladesh.
Speaker: Laia Blanche Senior International Programmes Officer (Sweatshops and Plantations)
G8: Fuelling hunger with false solutions
G8 Hunger Summit demo
Saturday 8 June, morning
This demo will happen in central London. We are still searching to find out about the actual Hunger Summit venue as it has not been made official. To receive information about the location for the protest please fill in the form below
London demonstration at the Hunger Summit hosted by David Cameron and protests across the UK against the New Alliance on Food Security and Nutrition. If you are organising an action or a protest please let us know and we'll publicise it here.
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Walk in the City
Saturday 8 June, afternoon - City of London, venue TBA
In conjunction with Tax Justice Network. A walk and film screening of Ken Loach film Spirit of 45.
Resources:
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Taking on the arms industry - A Spark Space event
Tuesday 11 June 7pm – 9pm at The Spark Space, Blackfriars Hub, 58 Victoria Embankment, London, EC4Y 0DS
The G8 have some of the highest military budgets in the world. Five of the world's top six arms exporters are G8 countries, fuelling conflict and human rights abuses around the world. On the eve of a day of action on militarism, take part in this event to learn more and find ways to challenge the catastrophic commitment to arming the world and privatising warfare.
Hear from War on Want about their Stop the Business of War campaign against the dangerous trend towards using Private Military and Security Companies to outsource security and privatise wars. Find out about recent developments in remote control wars that rely on drone technologies.
Campaign Against Arms Trade will share the latest on Dsei one of the world's largest arms fairs, due to take place in London in September, and what you can do to help stop it.
Organised by War on Want & Campaign Against the Arms Trade.
Cameron the tax activist? A Spark Space event
Wednesday 12 June 7pm at The Spark Space, Blackfriars Hub, 58 Victoria Embankment, London, EC4Y 0DS
For years activists and campaigners have demanded action to stop multinational companies and rich individuals dodging taxes around the world. Now David Cameron friend of the rich and ally of the multinationals, claims to be fixing the UK’s tax rules leading a new crackdown on tax havens at the G8 and working with the G20 to re-write the global rulebook for taxing multinationals.
Join us to discuss what’s really going on, whether Cameron is really getting tough on tax dodgers, who stands to benefit and where it leaves tax justice campaigning in the UK.
With Murray Worthy, Senior Tax Campaigner at War on Want
Food Sovereignty & the G8 - A Spark Space event
Wednesday 12 June 7pm at The Spark Space, Blackfriars Hub, 58 Victoria Embankment, London, EC4Y 0DS
***STOP PRESS - Jedd Hayward - Food Sovereignty chef will be leading event inc. cooking demo & presentation! More info soon!***
Food growers, small-scale producers, consumers and activists across the UK are taking actions to make food sovereignty a reality. Each of us under the umbrella of the UK Food Sovereignty Movement, are fighting back government policies that give priority to big companies and larger retailers who only care about profits. We are also joining the struggles of peasants in the global South and above all reclaiming our right to decide what we want to eat and how it should be produced and distributed. Come and take part of our growing food sovereignty movement. Plenty of actions to take forward.
Organised by War on Want and other Food Soverignty Movement partners
PROTEST! STOP ANTOFAGASTA PLC’S ABUSES AGAINST CAIMANES COMMUNITY!
Wednesday 12 June 2013, 9.30am
Location: Main entrance, Church House Conference Centre, Dean’s Yard, Westminster, London SW1P 3NZ. Nearest tube: Westminster
How would you like…
- To lose 80% of the water sources in the area where you live?
- For your water supplies to be so contaminated with toxic chemicals that water is unusable?
- To have one of the world’s biggest toxic waste dams built out of sand right next to your home, in one of the world’s most earthquake-prone countries?
- For your family to have to abandon agriculture because your livestock starts to die off?
- To have criminal charges brought against you when you protest about all of this?
Read more: PROTEST! STOP ANTOFAGASTA PLC’S ABUSES AGAINST CAIMANES COMMUNITY!
