Shift Campaign -Natalie Bennet New leader of the Green Party to speak at the Library Mon Dec 10th 7.30 pm

The SHIFT campaign is helping organise another THE ECONOMY FOR THE 99% - SHARE IDEAS & TOOLS TO MAKE IT HAPPEN event, this time on Monday the 10th of December, at 7.30 pm, in Friern Barnet library. Please refer to the attached leaflet for further details and circulate as widely as you can.

Rabbi Jeffrey Newman, who helped set up the Earth Charter UK (www.picturesofsuccess.org) in 2007, is one of the key organisers, Rabbi Newman, says 'we have to get on with it - better late than never, and SHIFT seems a really promising new alliance, pushing all the right buttons'.

It is apt that the meeting is being held in the Friern Barnet Library, which was closed down earlier this year by Barnet Council, a Conservative-run London borough with a fierce cuts policy. Its “One Barnet” strategy involves outsourcing nearly everything the council currently does – resulting in up to £1billion of contracts.

Eight occupiers entered the north London library early in September and since then it has been run by ‘community’ librarians who are keeping it open for 6 days a week. The council removed the stock of books but now thousands of books, fiction, non-fiction and children’s titles are stacked neatly on shelves, all donated by the local community.

The main speaker at the event will be Natalie Bennett, leader of the Green Party. Other speakers include Keith Sonnet (ex-Deputy General Secretary of UNISON), Phoenix (Occupy Movement), Sara Ayech (Transition Towns) and Peter Robinson (Secretary, Alliance for Jobs & Climate). There will be lots of opportunity for discussion and if you can come early, you will be able to meet the occupiers and they will tell you what they have been doing.

The Alliance for Jobs and climate is keen to organise similar events in other parts of the country. Have a look here for videos from the Camden event: http://jobsandclimate.org/videos-from-camdenshift/ Please email us at alliance@jobsandclimate.org if you are interested in helping set up similar events elsewhere.

And if you can get to Bristol on Saturday December 8th (11.00 am-4.30 pm) Charles Secrett, former head of FOE is organising a meeting for activists and organisation representatives that is being held in order to take the first steps towards building what he has called the ProActive Sustainability Movement in the UK. His paper is attached and his email address is cmsecrett@btinternet.com.