Fundraising on a bike

Next week myself and a friend will be embarking on a 140 miles trek from Plymouth to Penzance to raise money for People & Planet. We will be following the South West Coastal Path, a 630 mile footpath that follows the coastline of the south west from Minehead to Poole. The path is an official national trail and is noted as “one of the world greatest walks”. Our walk will be tough but the scenery will be phenomenal as we walk across secluded beaches, along high cliff and around the Lizard; Britain’s most southerly point.

We hope that our exhibition will raise plenty of money for People & Planet; money that allows to the organisation to run it’s radical and often difficult to fund grassroots campaigns. Money raised will help fund P&Ps excellent campaigns pushing the education sector to go green and fighting human rights abuses in university supply chains.

If you wish to donate towards our hike visit our JustGiving page

You can also keep up-to-date with our progress via our Facebook page and Tweets
Why not organise your own fund raising event? It’s fun and rewarding. Visit the People & Planet fund raising pages to find out more.

Next week myself and a friend will be embarking on a 140 miles trek from Plymouth to Penzance to raise money for People & Planet. We will be following the South West Coastal Path, a 630 mile footpath that follows the coastline of the south west from Minehead to Poole. The path is an official national trail and is noted as “one of the world greatest walks”. Our walk will be tough but the scenery will be phenomenal as we walk across secluded beaches, along high cliffs and around the Lizard; Britain’s most southerly point.

We hope that our expedition will raise plenty of money for People & Planet; money that allows the organisation to run it’s radical and often difficult to fund grassroots campaigns. Money raised will help fund excellent campaigns including pushing the education sector to go green and fighting human rights abuses in university supply chains.

If you wish to donate visit our JustGiving page

You can also keep up-to-date with our progress via our Facebook page and Tweets

Why not organise your own fund raising event? It’s fun and rewarding. Visit the fund raising pages to find out more.

Our friends in the US from United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS) have begun a new campaign demanding the infamous worker right abuser Nike ‘Just Pay It’. Nike currently owe 1,800 workers $2.2 million in severance payments and without jobs these workers are in need of food and money. Associated Press also report that owners of the factory pocketed payments to the Honduras’s national health care system, costing workers their health insurance.

However the student fightback in the US has already had a small but significant success with the Worker Rights Consortium affiliated University of Wisconsin ending contracts with Nike in solidarity with workers. This makes the university the first in history to stand up to Nike and make a clear demand that human rights are respected, an action which USAS hope will echo throughout the sector and encourage other universities to cut.

This small victory highlights the importance of the Worker Rights Consortium and the power a affiliated university can have in protecting human rights within its supply chain. Find out more about the Worker Rights Consortium and how you can get your university to affiliate.

The Worker Rights Consortium have also recently created a UK specific Q&A document to help answer any questions

Between the 1st & 7th March students from across the UK and US are taking action against sweatshops as part of the International Week of Student Action Against Sweatshops.

Students at University College London are planning to host a Global Supply Chain exhibition to lay bare the exploitation within the supply chains of two different product categories. (more…)

In November 2009 Reyna Dominguez, a Honduran union activist from the closed Jerzees de Honduras Fruit of the Loom factory toured the UK speaking at various events as part of Boycott Fruit of the Loom campaign. The ‘Stitched-up in Honduras’ tour was also joined by Rod and Shaun from United Students against Sweatshops, the pioneering student anti-sweatshop organisation who kicked of the campaign in the US and Canada. This blog is the collective diary of that hectic and tiring tour, enjoy! (more…)

The Buy Right campaign has a army of student activists ready to deliver the new Buy Right workshop  to the network.

If you want to find out how your university can respect human rights throughout its supply chain, book now! (more…)

MCs!

Ok, I know it’s a tenuous link, but they really do!

But instead of Microphone Commanders People & Planet has the Management Committee (MC); a group of young people elected by other students to make sure the network is being run your best interests. (more…)

Waking up at 5.30am on a dark frosty morning is not my cup of tea to be honest and realising it is still dark outside is not the greatest feeling either. But nevertheless me and few other students meet-up at the halls and begin the walk to the Royal Mail distribution center in Derby to join striking workers at the picket line.  (more…)