BANANA LINK – THE NORWICH ORGANISATION DEFENDING BANANA WORKERS’ RIGHTS

Posted on February 8, 2019 by Norwich Radical in Community, Inter|national and tagged activism, advocacy, Africa, agriculture, agrochemicals, Banana Link, bananas, Cameroon, Compagnie Fruitière, costa rica, education, environment, featured, Freedom and fairness for Fyffes workers, fruit, gender equity, ghana, health, Honduras, International Union of Foodworkers, Latin America, living wage, maternity rights, norwich, trade unions, worker solidarity, workers rights, World Banana Forum.

By Paul Lievens, Banana Link Communications Officer

Bananas have been part of our diet for thousands of years, and are the most popular fruit in the world, with over 100 billion bananas eaten around the world every year. In the UK, each of us eats on average around 10 kg, or 100 bananas, per year. Grown across the tropical regions of the world, banana export production provides an essential source of income for hundreds of thousands of rural households in developing countries. However, many of the plantation workers who produce our bananas fail to earn a living wage and do not have their labour rights respected, while the intensive use of agrochemicals harms the health of workers and the surrounding environment.

FOOD (NOT SO) GLORIOUS FOOD. PART 1: FOOD DYSTOPIA

Posted on November 13, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged brazil nuts, cash crops, cashews, chocolate, cocoa, dystopia, food, ghana, globalisation, Indonesia, malaysia, malnutrition, neoliberalism, obesity, Papua New Guinea, sugar.

By Stu Lucy

Food. We all need it and each every one of us has a unique and complex relationship with it. From production to acquisition to preparation and finally consumption, the constituent parts of this process vary widely across the planet. The unfortunate reality for most of the global community, however, is that this personal and multifaceted relationship is fraught with difficulty and dilemma. In fact, as we further examine the inner mechanisms and processes of the human-food relationship, we can find ourselves exposed to a somewhat dystopian state of affairs.Continue Reading

NUS WOMEN’S CONFERENCE, STUDENT DEPORTATION AND MIGRANTS’ RIGHTS

Posted on April 10, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Student and tagged abortion, abuse, BME, chartered flight, chennan fei, conference, deportation, disabled students campaigns, gendered islamaphobia, ghana, Hareem Ghani, kelechi, LGSM, malia bouattia, marginalisation, MFJ, migrant rights, Movement for Justice, Nigeria, Northern Ireland, NUS, nus black students, nus womens conference, organise, prevent, prevent strategy, racism, reproductive justice, self organisation, solidarity, stanstead, student, student movement, women, xenophobia, yarls wood detention centre.

by Cherry Somersby

Content warning: article mentions physical and emotional abuse, abortion, xenophobia, gendered Islamophobia, deportation

Last week, over a hundred women+ students travelled from student unions all over the country to NUS Women’s Conference to elect a new NUS Women’s Officer, and set the direction for the NUS Women’s Campaign for the incoming year. I attended conference as a delegate from UEASU, and sat down with NUS President Malia Bouattia, and NUS Women’s Officer Hareem Ghani after having won her re-election.

This article provides an account of key events at Women’s conference, including motions passed and issues raised at plenaries and workshops throughout conference. I have also published comments given by both Malia and Hareem in response to the questions I asked about NUS, Women’s Conference, and the Women’s Campaign in the context of student deportations and migrants’ rights campaigns.Continue Reading

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BANANA LINK – THE NORWICH ORGANISATION DEFENDING BANANA WORKERS’ RIGHTS

FOOD (NOT SO) GLORIOUS FOOD. PART 1: FOOD DYSTOPIA

NUS WOMEN’S CONFERENCE, STUDENT DEPORTATION AND MIGRANTS’ RIGHTS

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