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  • Reading International Festival 2025

    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 […]

  • Women of Hebron – Supporting Fair Trade Livelihoods in Palestine

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    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

  • Matt Kennard – Uncovering Empire from Palestine to Haiti

    RG1 4PS 35-39 London ST, Reading, UK, Berkshire, United Kingdom

    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 […]

    Free

  • Burkina Faso – Daring To Invent Its Future

    RG1 4PS 35-39 London ST, Reading, UK, Berkshire, United Kingdom

    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.

    Free

  • Late Night Shopping @ The World Shop & Global Refills

    RG1 4PS 35-39 London ST, Reading, UK, Berkshire, United Kingdom

    Browse our new Christmas collection of fair trade crafts and gifts, with food & drink tasting in collaboration with Double-Barrelled Brewery. The World Shop, 35-39 London St, RG1 4PS

  • Film Screening – Nae Pasaran!

    RG1 4PS 35-39 London ST, Reading, UK, Berkshire, United Kingdom

    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 […]

  • Race, Racism &Anti-racism in Education

    An introduction to Global Citizenship & the issue ofracism in education. Exploring different aspects of racial inequality in the British education system. With current research & strategies to combat racism & promote inclusivity in schools.  

    £30

  • Climate & Migration Community Film Festival

    Film screening of two short documentaries @RISC: And Still, It Remains (2023) dir. Arwa Aburawa & Turab Shah Until The Last Drop (2020) dir. Tim Webster & Ernesto Cabellos

  • Trump & the New World Disorder

    RG1 4PS 35-39 London ST, Reading, UK, Berkshire, United Kingdom

    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 […]

    Free

  • Film – Palestine 36

    RG1 4PS 35-39 London ST, Reading, UK, Berkshire, United Kingdom

    Highly anticipated film that dramatises the 1936–1939 Arab Revolt against colonial rule, during the British Mandate for Palestine.
    Directed by Annemarie Jacir, a prominent Palestinian filmmaker. Palestine 36 aims to provide a personal and intimate look at the Palestinian resistance during one of the most pivotal moments in the region’s history.

    £4