Cambridge People & Planet

There's a BIG activist meeting happening next Tuesday 27th January, in The
Shop on Jesus Lane at 19:30.

The Cambridge Action Network and People and Planet will get together,
discuss the different roles of the two groups and how we can co-ordinate,
think about what we want to do and how to organise: it's going to be
BRILLIANT. If there's one thing you want to make it along to in the next
week, it's this!

People and Planet Cambridge will be participating in the national weekend of action against E-on by protesting outside the RBS on Trinity Street TODAY from 15:00. Do all come along for some street theatre, placard waving and leafletting.

Then, on THURSDAY, we'll be protesting outside Top Shop as part of the national day of action against them. Meet outside King's at 15:00.

RBS is the biggest funder of fossil fuels in the UK, and we need to put pressure on them to clean up their act before it's too late!

Top Shop won't even sign up to the Ethical Trading Initiative, which goes to show how important human rights are to them: we need to show them how important human rights are to their customers!

Is it really necessary to go Vegan to save the planet?
Does food have any relevance to the environmental movement at all?
What other ethical issues are relevant when it comes to food?

What do Vegans even eat???

If these and any other questions relating to food have been perplexing you, People and Planet have the answer: come along to an informal, unbiased discussion of all issues food-related, this FRIDAY 14th NOVEMBER, and then take part in an experiment to see what vegans do actually eat, i.e. a vegan cooking session!

£1 donation or food donation requested but not required!

Meet outside the Chetwyn Room, in King's College Bar, at 19:00, go from there to the Common Room at Spalding, next to the Cambridge Arts Theatre, and then onto a kitchen for collective cooking!

Call 07882 319 602 if you're having any trouble finding us!

Interested in getting involved with People and Planet next year??! Well, now's your chance!   

Kick off your summer from 29 June - 3 July with four packed days of skills and issue workshops, campaign updates, speakers and evening entertainment. By the time you´ve finished you will be equipped with the skills to run expert campaigns across the country, addressing the root causes of social injustice and environmental degradation.

Spend your days in the beautiful Oxfordshire countryside with loads of other student campaigners sharing ideas and make regional connections and plans.

 To sign up, go to:

http://peopleandplanet.org/summergathering

 If you do fancy going, please email Julie on jkw32@cam.ac.uk as a group of us will be going from Cambridge. 

Cambridge People & Planet supports the Go Greener campaign which is part of CUSU Green. The petition can be signed at:

http://www.camgogreener.org.uk/

P & P is also a part of the Cambridge Climate Coalition, a coalition of student societies who share a common interest in climate change issues with the aim of working towards common goals.

The First Climate Change Conference; 'Climate Changes-What Next?' took place on 16th February 2008 and was attended by many student societies as well as students from universities nationwide, in association with the Student Climate Project.