Speaker Sadie DeCoste

Sadie is a climate change researcher and activist with a focus on climate reparations, transformative adaptation, and loss and damage. At Tipping Point, she supports the Climate Reparations Network and the Care & Repair team. She co-founded the Loss and Damage Youth Coalition and has been active in loss and damage movements for several years.

She will be talking about climate reparations specifically, what it means, why it’s important and where the movement is at now.

CLS Sunday Meeting held on Sunday 6 October 2024

Speakers: Anthony Gifford, Luke Daniels and Steve Cushion


Luke Daniels, president of Caribbean Labour Solidarity, and Anthony Gifford discussed the latest developments in the Reparations campaign, relationships with the trade unions and the need for a mass movement in both UK and the Caribbean. At the First Pan-African Congress on Reparations, held in Abuja, Nigeria, in April 1993, Tony Gifford delivered a paper entitled “The legal basis of the claim for Reparations”.

Steve Cushion, author of the forthcoming book Slavery in the British Empire and its Legacy in … Read on ...

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Friends of the Earth Latin America and the Caribbean (ATALC), meeting in its Annual General Assembly (AGA) in the Province of Sucumbíos, Municipality of Amisacho (Lago Agrio), salutes and supports the just struggle of the Union of People Affected by Texaco-Chevron Oil Operations (UDAPT)/Friends of the Earth Ecuador, and the legitimate demands of those affected by the exploitation and territorial dispossession.

The transnational oil company Chevron refuses to pay the cost of environmental, social and cultural reparation in favour of the Amazon and … Read on ...