Webinar: Corporate courts - communities fight back

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Hi John,

Join us for a webinar on Saturday 18 Sept to hear from communities around the world fighting corporate courts and their threat to the climate. We’ll be joined by speakers from Bolivia, Argentina and Italy:

Corporate courts: communities fight back

When: Saturday 18 Sept 2021, 5.30pm-6.30pm UK time
Where: online on zoom

Speakers:

Aldo Orellana López, Bolivian activist and journalist
Maria Rita D’Orsogno, Italian activist
Nicolás Perrone, Argentinian academic and author

Our speakers will talk about:

a new corporate court case being brought by London-listed mining companies over the expansion of the biggest open pit coal mine in Latin America in northern Colombia
the popular mobilisation against the oil drilling project at the heart of the Rockhopper corporate court case brought under the controversial Energy Charter Treaty.
the origins of corporate courts as a corporate reaction to the anti-colonial struggles of the twentieth century

The webinar will be chaired by Leah Sullivan from War on Want, with whom we are organising the event, and we’ll also hear from Nick Dearden, director of Global Justice Now.

Day of action

The webinar will round off the afternoon of our day of action, Corporate Courts vs The Climate. We’re taking action here in the UK, to tell the government to exit the ECT and drop corporate courts in the UK’s trade deal, but we’re only part of a global movement to get rid of corporate courts.

That’s why we wanted to hear from others around the world about their fight against corporate courts and the environmentally and socially devastating extractive projects often at the heart of corporate court disputes.

I do hope you can join us to hear from our inspiring speakers and see how we can work globally to bring an end to the unjust corporate court system.

See you there,

Jean Blaylock
Trade campaigner at Global Justice Now

ps If you are planning activities for the day of action, don’t forget to order your placards by the end of this week - email [email protected]

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