As resistance to austerity grows in the US and Europe
and Durban prepares to host critical climate change talks in December,
Durban based activist Patrick Bond will talk about the rise of the
climate justice movement in Africa and its connections with other social
movements in Africa and elsewhere, such as struggles for trade and debt
justice and access to social services. Irish climate and community
campaigners will respond to his insights. The meeting will ask what can
we learn from movements in the South, and how can we link the local and
global struggles we are engaged in?
Patrick Bond is a political economist with long-standing research
interests and NGO work in urban communities and with global justice
movements in several countries. He teaches political economy and
eco-social policy at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban, South
Africa, where he directs the Centre for Civil Society and is involved in
research on economic justice, geopolitics, climate, energy and water.
Patricia McCarthy is co-Director of Community Technical Aid, which
provides support to local communities and projects in north inner-city
Dublin. She has a long-standing interest and experience in anti-poverty
actions, social inclusion and participation.
Molly Walsh is Policy and Campaigns Manager with Friends of the Earth
Ireland. She leads their campaign for an Irish climate law and will be
attending the make-or-break UN talks in Durban at the end of November.
For more information or to register please contact Fleachta@comhlamh.org.
