KNOWLEDGE FOR ACTION AGAINST G4S

When

9th Apr 2016    
10:30 am - 5:00 pm
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Where

Quaker Meeting House Sheffield
10 St James Street , Sheffield, S1 2EW

Event Type

G4SDay School: we CAN and we WILL challenge corporate power!

This will be a day of education, information, discussion and turning this into action through encouragement of grass roots campaigns and planning protest at the G4S AGM.

If you are interested in taking action to stop the serial human rights abuser, then come to the Stop G4S National Meeting in Sheffield and lets reinvigorate the community campaigns around the country. Contact us Group4campaign@gmail.com

No lawful decision maker should be awarding any contract to G4S.

“A different government would stop all contracts with this serial
human rights abuser.”

Andy Burnham Labour’s Shadow Home Secretary

This is because G4S is a serial human rights abuser, in the UK and across the world. It is not just that they cannot administer anything, to Olympic proportions of mismanagement, but that they are guilty of stealing public money and breaching human rights, including of those vulnerable people seeking asylum, people in youth protection, and Palestinian children held illegally in Israeli detention. They are not just incompetent but inhumane. During the day there will be contributions from:

  • Cllr Mick Bowman (Newcastle) and Stop G4S campaign activists on legality of ethical procurement policies, local democracy and devolution.
  • Corporate Watch on the way G4S is organised and the corporate complicity of G4S.
  • South Yorkshire Migration and Asylum Action Group campaign on G4S housing contracts.
  • The Community Action on Prison Expansion Campaign on corporations profiting from caging human beings.
  • War on Want on G4S and the Prison Industrial Complex in Palestine.
  • Palestine Boycott National Committee on International campaigns against G4S

Martin Mayer (Labour National Executive Committee member)

Please let us know at Group4campaign@gmail.com if you will be attending. 

We don’t have any funding for travel but if you need assistance please let us know. Also please let us know if you or your organisation can “sponsor” the event, in principle and/or with some financial support – please contact the same email for further details.

Sponsors include: War on Want; Stop G4S Campaigns; Boycott Israel NetworkG4S   SYMAAG; PSC Branches.