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Climate Justice Explained
Coming Soon 👏 Eastbourne Solidarity is a supporting group of Eastbourne Climate Coalition – Climate Justice Now. But what is Climate Justice? What has colonialism, slavery, the Industrial Revolution, racism, economic and social inequality, The cost of living crisis, the strikes, health inequality, gender inequality, disabilities inequality and all the other inequalities got to do…
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When Will We Say ENOUGH?
SEVEN YEARS AGO Eastbourne People’s Assembly were campaigning 👇against child poverty in our town. TODAY ▪︎1.4 million children don’t have access to the basics.🙏🏼🫂 ▪︎An estimated 6.7 million UK households are now living in fuel poverty. 🙏🏼🔥🏠 ▪︎The Food Foundation found that in April 2022, 15.5% of all UK households were food insecure. 🙏🏼🍏🥪🥣 How…
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Preparing for the Climate Rebellion
“They are as children, playing with their toys, with their house of fire” The Budha The September Rebellion – Extinction Rebellion. We are heading into that time of the year when Extinction Rebellion enters into news, accompanied no doubt by the usual dollops of mainstream media misreporting. The September action will start with a learning…
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Our Special Report on GB News’ Dan Wootton’s Special Report on our Eastbourne Tory Party Leadership Hustings Protest – 5th Aug’22 – A Fun Exposé
Ok. You may have seen GB News’ Special Report on our Tory Party Leadership Hustings Protest that took place on 5th August. 200 chanting protesters outside the Winter Garden plus young activists inside declaring their demands for a Green New Deal now. Did you see the nonsense report? There is a link below if you…
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Solidarity and Mick Lynch’s message to NHS Workers
Solidarity with NSH workers. What is Mick Lynch’s message to NHS workers? Do you remember the Eastbourne bin strike earlier this year? Eastbourne Borough Council were making anti-union announcements and calling their 2.5% pay offer ‘generous’. They claimed the GMB should accept the offer because that was what nurses had accepted. At that time a…
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Consciousness and the Energy Crisis – both climate and personal
If you haven’t yet come across Charles Eisenstein, Author then please find some time. Our discussions in Eastbourne Climate Coalition haven’t made room for the message of his approach yet. Perhaps now is a good time. He talks about the consciousness of the expansionist phase of civilization that we are currently in. With that comes…
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Enough is Enough – Join Us
Check it out folks. Strikes are us. Remember the Eastbourne bin strike at the beginning of the year? Remember the online discussions with the EBC announcement declaring how generous their 2.5% pay offer was? Remember people being taken in by this and joining in with comments about how greedy the bin strikers were being? And…
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Eastbourne Solidarity – The Launch Video May Day 2021
On May Day 2021 the Eastbourne Trades Council hosted a #KillTheBill march and rally in protest against the Police, Crime, Sentences and Courts Bill; a piece of legislation that would threaten our democratic right to protest. Many different groups in our town came together to demonstrate on this common cause; social justice and climate justice…
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The Tory Party Husting Protesters and “British Values”
The Tory Party Hustings Protest and ‘British Values’ 🚩✊️ In her interview with ultra-right-truth-twister-dispicerabler Dan Wootton and Caroline Ansell said “this is not how people are in my home town” “Eastbourne is a beautiful town”… That was shock talk. She honestly didn’t know the solidarity of anti-tory feeling in own town. And in answer to…
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Call Mr Robeson – A Life in Songs with Tayo Aluko is coming to Eastbourne folks!
The Engels in Eastbourne Project has been busy behind the scene on various radical history campaigns. Working with Eastbourne Borough Council and others, one such campaign has successfully secured the planned for opening of a commemoration Paul Robeson Room at the Winter Garden. This is where he frequently performed. A bass baritone singer. he sang…