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GO GREEN WEEk
12 - 16 FEBRUARY 2018
Student handbook
#gogreen2018
go green week 2018 fossil free finance
For Go Green Week We can imagine a world of
2018, People & Planet fossil free finance through go green week 2018 focuses on banks, fossil
are supporting students webinars and campaign fuel finance and winning climate justice
across the UK to escalate planning.
the movement for climate
justice. We’ll skill-up to escalate our Go Green Week is People &
campaigns so we can win. Planet’s annual national week
We’re winning on fossil fuel of student action on climate
MONDAY 4
divestment. Now we're We can develop relationships change. Are you in? Get educated
demanding that banks stop of solidarity with the front-
financing the fossil fuel line communities through TUESDAY 5
extraction driving the climate online discussions. build solidarity
crisis. WEDNESDAY 6
We can build popular support
Students are demanding for a world of fossil free plan the campaign
that Barclays, the dirtiest UK finance and climate justice by THURSDAY 6
high-street bank, ditch all organising on our campuses escalate
fossil fuel finance. and in our communities.
FRIDAY 8
During Go Green Week 2018, For much more information build that movement
together we can get educated on the campaign and how to
through films screenings and get your SU and University
workshop. to boycott Barclays, read our
Divest Barclays Action Guide
get support from people & planet
People & Planet offers a range of fantastic training and workshops for
school, college and university students and staff. Get in touch to book:
fossilfree@peopleandplanet.org | 01865 403225
peopleandplanet.org/FOSSIL-FREE
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get educated build solidarity
you're invited to the launch of go green host our front lines webinar with activists
week with an exclusive film screening resisting fosisl fuels in south east asia
Join People & Planet and Not in London? No problem!
SOAS Fossil Free Finance The first 15 groups to sign The campaign for fossil free and we’ll explore how we can
society in London to launch Go up to show the film as part finance is fundamentally take practical solidarity with
Green Week with an exclusive of Go Green Week receive about supporting struggles them from UK campuses.
screening of the film ‘To The the license for a hugely for justice in communities
Ends Of The Earth’, where discounted rate of £125. most affected by fossil fuel Keep up to date, organise a
we’ll be joined by special Get in touch with us at
guests involved in the film’s fossilfree@peopleandplanet. extraction globally. public viewing and book you
production. org to organise a screening, place through our website.
and for advice on how to fund People & Planet and National
Book you free place here. the license fee through your Union of Students (NUS)
SU. are hosting a webinar
(online seminar) discussion
with representatives from
to the ends of the earth:
[tuesday]
front lines against climate
[monday]
colonialism. Hear their stories
synopsis of resistance and learn about
To The Ends Of The Earth, follows concerned citizens what you can do to support
living at the frontiers of extreme oil and gas extraction, them in your campaigns.
bearing witness to a global crossroads. They call for
human ingenuity to rebuild society at the end of the fossil We’ll be joined from organisers
fuel era. The people we meet are uniquely positioned resisting fossil fuel extraction
to watch this global crossroads unfold.The film brings in South East Asia. Whether
forward the voices of those who not only denounce the Vietnam, Indonesia or the
rise of extreme energy, but also envision the new world Phillipines, grassroots
that is taking shape in its stead: a future beyond the movements are leading the
resource pyramid, a post-growth economy. fight to keep it in the ground.
Read more here: endsofearthfilm.com/ They’ll tell the stories of their
struggles for climate justice,
4 5organise on campus escalate
learn about fossil fuel finance, invite people & planet to train your
#divestbarclays, plan your campaign group to escalate campaigns
Join student campaigners Immediatley after the When we make demands of to your campus and get your
from campuses across webinar, host a with a powerful actors like banks and group skilled up to take your
the country to hear about Divest Barclays campaign universities, we need to be fossil free finance campaign
calls for fossil free finance, planning session with your able to step up the pressure. to the next level using creative
the campaign for Barclays group, using this workshop tactics, direct action and
to divest from extractive script. Request a workshop on reputational damage.
[wednesday]
projects, and how the campaign escalations and
campaign is going at Find more details and sign we’ll send a trained member Book a workshop here.
universities across the UK. up here. of People & Planet staff or
[thursday]
student organiser to come
6 7BUILD that movement
sign up 1000 people to boycott
barclays until they divest
Petition on fossil free finance and
We want 10,000 people on running the Divest Barclays
campuses across the UK to campaign in our Action Guide.
pledge to boycott Barclays
until they ditch fossil fuels by Contact fossilfree@
the end of #GoGreen2018. peopleandplanet.org for
Can you help by signing up campaigns support before,
500-1000 people on your during and afterGo Green
campus? Week or if you have any
Using the People & Planet questions about the week.
petition tool, signatures
calling on your University to Fundraising
boycott Barclays feed into the People & Planet is a radical
[friday]
national petition. student network of activist
groups campaigning for
Campus petitioning is an climate justice, sweatshop
opportunity to convince free supply chains and
people on campus of our migrants’ justice.
demands for fossil free We rely on small regular
finance and invite them donations from members and
along to future meetings, supporters to support our
events and actions if they’re groups and organise events
interested. like #GoGreen2018
Resources & staff support Begin your regular donation
Find more information now!
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