Transcript NE-CAP: A Review of the Past Year

A review of the past year for the
Annual General Meeting
March 2nd 2015
Who are we?
A voluntary association of people which
promotes action to:
 Relieve severe poverty in less developed
countries, and to:
 Curb climate change.....
Or to put it positively…
We call for action to:
 End severe poverty, promote economic
justice, and to:
 Provide a sustainable future, ‘for all, for
ever’!
Where did we come from?
Our grouping can be
traced back to:
‘Tyneside Jubilee 2000’
(1997);
‘Jubilee Debt Campaign
NE’ (2001); and
‘Trade Justice
Movement NE’ (‘03)
Where did we come from?
IIn 2005, the Jubilee Debt Campaign NE
committee merged into an expanded
grouping to support :
MAKEPOVERTYHISTORY
 Trade
Justice
 Drop the Debt
 More and better Aid
MAKEPOVERTYHISTORY NorthEast
Now we’re called
NorthEast
Call to Action
On Global Poverty and Climate Change
(NE-CAP*)
And it’s our fourth birthday!
* With apologies to ‘GCAP’,
the ‘Global Call to Action on Poverty’
NorthEast
Call to Action
Highlights of the year
NorthEast
CALL TO ACTION
‘Horizon’
Co-sponsored by NE-CAP & Tearfund
7.30-9.30pm, Tuesday 25th March
Newcastle University Chaplaincy,
Led by Sarah Wiggins & Billie Anderson
An attempt to both 'stand back' from our usual concerns and to start
a 'Conversation' asking bigger questions about values.
… to listen, to ask questions and to explore the bigger issues together.
And it led to our ‘Eco-Congregations’ initiative
The passing of Bill Peters and Martin Dent
Co-Founders of Jubilee 2000,
(seen here at ‘Journey to Justice’, Birmingham 2008)
Bill Peters, Debt Campaigner Extraordinary
28th Sept, 1923 – 29th March, 2014
Bill Peters (left of image), with David Golding,
en route to the G8 in Genoa in 2001
Bill Peters – “I resolved to work tirelessly”
William (Bill) Peters CMG CVO MBE, distinguished diplomat and debt
campaigner extraordinary, died on 29th March, aged 90.
Bill was born on 28th September 1923, in Morpeth, Northumberland,
and attended King Edward IV Grammar School in the town.
“I became aware of the debt crisis in Malawi in 1983…
and I resolved to work tirelessly to bring world-wide
awakening to the sheer injustice and error involved.”
That was a resolution he kept - with a vengeance!
For further details, see Statement of Appreciation by David Golding,
prepared at request of Jubilee Debt Campaign UK
– go to http://ne-calltoaction.org.uk/?m=201404
Martin Dent – Author of ‘Brand Jubilee’
1925 - 2014
The Tiv people of Nigeria
made Martin an Honorary
Tribal Chief, and their official
Conciliator!
Dr Martin Dent OBE – a humanitarian giant
and the author of ‘Brand Jubilee’
Martin Dent - “inspirational”, “visionary”, “fantastic academic”, “true
philanthropist”, and "great English eccentric” - died on Saturday 3rd
May 2014, aged 89.
In 1990, students at Keele University trooped forward after one of his
Politics lectures to sign a petition for his ‘Jubilee 2000’ campaign (as he
had just entitled it), calling for the cancellation of the unpayable debts of
poor countries by the year 2000.
The petition went on to attract over 24 million signatures, from 166
countries, a double world record! Nor that the campaign would secure
the cancellation of $130 billion of debt, for 35 countries.
For further details, see Statement of Appreciation by David Golding,
prepared at request of Jubilee Debt Campaign UK
– go to 2nd item at http://ne-calltoaction.org.uk/?m=201406
End Hunger Fast
March/April 2014
North East CALL FOR ACTION calls for
support to ‘End Hunger Fast’ in the UK
“The charge we lay at the government’s
door is that it has failed to protect the
poorest and most vulnerable.”
European Elections, May 2014
Questions for Candidates
CLIMATE CHANGE
“Climate policies in line with the two degree Celsius goal
need to aim for substantial emission reductions…This is
the clear message of the science.”
(Professor Ottmar Edenhofer, Co-Chair of Working Party III (“Mitigation
of Climate Change”) of the IPCC)
Our question: “Do you accept this ‘clear message’, and
will support such ‘climate policies’?”
For other questions, responses and commentary, go to:
http://ne-calltoaction.org.uk/?m=201405
NorthEast
CALL TO ACTION
CAFOD
Campaigns Energiser Day, Friday 4th July
Clement Stephenson Lecture Theatre, Newcastle University
Antony Mbandi
Director of CAFOD partner Caritas Kitui, Kenya
Hear first-hand about the impact of climate
change in Kenya, and how green energy
projects are transforming people’s lives.
NorthEast
CALL TO ACTION
CELEBRATE
the Great North Run
its astonishing charitable endeavours
St Thomas’s Church, Haymarket, Saturday 6th September, 4.30-5.15 & 5.45-6.30pm
Special Guests
Paul Brannen MEP, Prof Richard Davies, Judith Kirton-Darling MEP,
Chi Onwurah MP, Cllr Anita Lower & Bishop Frank White
Campaign Meeting, with Sarah-Jayne Clifton & Paul Brannen MEP
Light Refreshments
Fifth Annual Service of Blessing
Preacher, Rt Revd Frank White, Revd Catherine Lack presiding
Eve-of-Run Events
Jubilee Debt Campaign @ Newcastle University
Great North Run, Sunday 6th Sept
“An amazing experience”, “Really great”, “Hugely appreciated”
Over £172,500 raised over past 12 years!
Half to JDC, and half for the fight against HIV/AIDS
And the care of AIDS widows and orphans
‘Shattered but triumphant’ at finish
L-r, Harriet Turner, Meghan Rossuck, & Max Martin
Photographer, Dr Tim Kenny, & Veteran of Run, Revd Roger Mills
North Region Fairtrade Supporter Conference
Fairtrade: a Grassroots Revolution
Jonathan Smith
Joint Head of Campaigns at Fairtrade Foundation
Saturday 20th September, 11.00am – 4.00pm
Sunderland Stadium of Light
The first North Region Fairtrade Supporter Conference,
to celebrate 20 years of the Fairtrade Mark and
recognise the contribution of Fairtrade supporters.
Climate Action, March & Rally
Saturday, 20th Sept,
Monument, Newcastle
Gathering petition
signatures
Sunday, 21st September
Central Library,
Northumberland St
& Civic Centre
March and Rally
Jubilee Debt Campaign
at Newcastle University
NorthEast
CALL TO ACTION
The second
NEWCASTLE JUBILEE DEVELOPMENT LECTURE
Thursday 27th November, 2014, at 5.30pm
Curtis Auditorium, Newcastle University
MR KEVIN WATKINS
Executive Director of the Overseas Development Institute
“Challenges in expanding opportunity in education”
With John Grundy, writer and broadcaster
Special Guest, H.E. Mr Joslyn Raphael Whiteman
High Commissioner of Grenada
Chair, Professor Chris Brink, Vice-Chancellor
New Patrons for NE-CAP
 I am delighted to be a patron of North East Call to Action (NE-CAP).
Its work on global poverty and climate change is vitally important and
offers real inspiration and encouragement to us all to be engaged (Rt
Revd Paul Butler, Bishop of Durham).
 I am proud to support such a powerful principled organization
campaigning against poverty and climate change, making a good
contribution to society and narrowing the ever-widening economic
and social inequalities (Beth Fahrat, Regional General Secretary,
TUC).
 I became very involved in the Jubilee for Justice campaign, which
culminated in the presentation of our efforts to Number 10 Downing
Street. I have since become a robust campaigner for the Living
Wage… I feel genuinely honoured to be asked to be a patron and will
do my bit… to help the aims of NE-CAP” (Guy Opperman,
Conservative MP for Hexham).
The Labour Party’s Greetings Card,
sent to about 1,000 contacts in the region,
December 2014
The Labour Party’s Greetings Card and on the back…
This card supports North East CALL TO ACTION on
global poverty and climate change (NE-CAP).
NE-CAP is a non-party political, voluntary association
which promotes action to relieve poverty in less
developed countries, and to curb climate change.
We call for action to promote economic justice and
provide a sustainable future,
‘for all, for ever’.
NorthEast
Call to Action
 Good News 1
Global child deaths down by more than half since 1990!
But 17,000 under-fives still dying needlessly each day is 17,000 too many!
 Good News 2
Jubilee Debt Campaign secures $100+ for Ebola-hit countries!
 Good News 3
Massive vote in UN General Assembly (124:11)
for new international law to curb Vulture Funds
But UK one of the 11 against! 
“Thank you, thank you, thank you!”
(Archbishop Desmond Tutu to NE-CAP in 2006)
UN delegates applaud as the resolution
passes at the General Assembly