Stay – Move – Resist

Join us to explore how we can work together for migrant justice & climate justice, sharing ideas and experience with our friends at City of Sanctuary. Includes a showing of Thank You for the Rain (trailer below) as part of the Our Shared Futures – climate & migration community film festival. Our speakers are Shams Moussa & Ben Margolis from City of Sanctuary UK (joining remotely). Approximate timings for the day are listed.

Taking place just after the COP30 climate conference, and in the midst of increased hostility towards migrants in the UK and elsewhere, we will be learning about the issues, and exploring how our movements can strengthen each other. As City of Sanctuary UK put it:

“Migrant justice is climate justice. We can’t stand in solidarity with people seeking sanctuary without tackling the climate crisis – and we can’t truly tackle the climate crisis without
standing in solidarity with people seeking sanctuary.”

In the morning we will get the bigger picture, and in the afternoon think about how we can work together locally, to ensure that everyone has three key rights: the right to stay, the right to move, and the right to resist and advocate.

Lunch will be provided, please register so that we can plan for numbers.

If you are able, please make a donation to help cover the cost of the event, and allow us to put on more events like this in future. If a donation is really not possible for you at this time, we do understand. You can make an online donation via card after registering, or on the day by card or cash.

This powerful documentary follows Kisilu Musya, a Kenyan farmer who begins filming his daily life to show the real impacts of climate change on his community. Over five years, his story evolves from local struggle to global activism as he journeys to the UN climate talks in Paris. The film captures the personal toll of changing weather patterns while exposing the deep inequalities that shape who is heard (and who is not) in global climate debates.

Photo: still from Thank You for the Rain. Credit – Julie Lillesæter. Copyright Banyak Films & Differ Media 2017.

Info: Approximate timings for the day

Info: Learning from the UN refugee agency UNHCR

Info: Part of the Our Shared Futures – climate & migration community film festival. This powerful documentary follows Kisilu Musya, a Kenyan farmer who begins filming his daily life to show the real impacts of climate change on his community. Over five years, his story evolves from local struggle to global activism as he journeys to the UN climate talks in Paris. The film captures the personal toll of changing weather patterns while exposing the deep inequalities that shape who is heard (and who is not) in global climate debates.

Info: Lunch will be provided, please register so that we can plan for numbers .
Donations to help cover the cost of catering will be greatly appreciated, but no one should be prevented from joining due to cost.

Info: Exploring how we can work together for climate justice & migrant justice in the UK (using a new resource from City of Sanctuary).

Info: To take action following the event.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

The Priory Rooms Meeting & Conference Centre, 40 Bull Street, Birmingham, United Kingdom

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