The Reading Interntional Festival celebrates Reading’s diverse communities and action groups. The programme highlights the many international activities, twinning links and solidarity in Reading. Click on the image for more information. Download events programme here The theme highlighted this year is: We Must Dare To Invent The Future We must dare to: • invent a […]
Talk by Nawal Slemiah founder and director of Women in Hebron, a cooperative that produces traditional Palestinian embroidery. She will be speaking about the work of the cooperative in helping women earn a living wage through the sale of fair trade handicrafts. Palestinian crafts and products available for sale. Free snacks and refreshments. British Islamic […]
Free please register https://www.eventbrite.com/e/matt-kennard-uncovering-empire-from-palestine-to-haiti-tickets-1742492083729 Matt Kennard former Financial Times investigative journalist, author of the Racket and Silent Coup, will draw on his in-depth investigations of violence, exploitation and resistance by the world’s biggest enterprises. His reporting covers many years in more than a dozen countries including Haiti, Palestine, Bolivia, Mexico, Tunisia and Egypt. RISC, 35-39 London […]
Learn about how Burkina Faso is leading Africa towards self sufficiency and full sovereignty. Wend-Panga Compaore will update us on the latest news and events. Historic photographic exhibition from the Sankara years by Dave Richards. Music, food and stalls.
Director: Felipe Bustos Sierra Winner: Best feature Film, BAFTA Awards Scotland, 2018 A heartfelt documentary that tells the true story of Scottish workers who managed to ground half of Chile’s Air Force, from the other side of the world, in the longest single act of solidarity against Pinochet’s brutal dictatorship that had toppled the government […]
Nick Dearden, the inspiring director of Global Justice Now will outline the tough choice we face in a changing world: capitalism or a livable planet. He believes that climate change requires a revolutionary transformation, and that it is incompatible with appeasing the powerful few. This is a moment of huge instability. But it is only […]
