This video takes a look at the community food intiatives that SEAD supported as part of the NET Your Carbons project.

at the Quaker Meeting House, 7 Victoria Terrace, Edinburgh EH1 2JL

We are please to announce we are doing a special screening of the most inspiring film ‘The Pipe’ which will start at 7pm after a short introduction. The Pipe is a compelling documentary film four years in the making, It tells the story of the small Rossport community in Ireland which has taken on the might of Shell Oil and the Irish State. The film will be followed by special guests, from the Shell to Sea and Rossport Solidarity Camp, who will talk about the campaign and the people involved with a Q & A session afterwards.

Shell to Sea campaign and Rossport Solidarity Camp

The Shell to Sea campaign is about the discovery of gas off this remote coastal village, which has led to the most dramatic clash of cultures in modern Ireland. The rights of farmers over their fields, and of fishermen to their fishing grounds, has come in direct conflict with one of the world’s most powerful oil companies. When the citizens look to their State to protect their rights, they find that the government has put Shell’s right to lay a pipeline over their own. Already 5 locals have spent 94 days in jail rather than let the proposed Shell pipeline cross their lands. This once tranquil area is engulfed in turmoil, as huge numbers of police drafted in. Normal policing has broken down following baton charges, surveillance, arrests, and a hunger strike by a local schoolteacher.

This campaign is a fantastic example of community resilience. We hope to learn from this and draw links with Rossport and communities campaigning in Scotland against development such as open cast mining, incinerators, biomass plants and more.

 Agenda for the Evening

1830             Arrival/register

1900             Welcome and Introduction to the event

1905             Introduction to the film

1915             Screening of The Pipe

2030             Rossport Solidarity Camp and Shell to Sea Campaign – Whats happened since ‘The Pipe’

2100            Q&A

2130             Event ends

Registering for the event

Please email  info(at)sead.org.uk or call the office 01314752612

This year’s theme is ‘Moving Planet’, so it’s time to take to the streets.Come on foot, on bikes, on skates, on any other human-powered transport you can think of!

Come and be part of a global rally to demand action from world leaders. It’s time to get moving on the climate crisis.

The aim of the event is to call for a sustainable energy future for a world below 350 parts per million (ppm) of carbon dioxide – which is what scientists tell us is the safe upper limit of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

350.org is all about connecting the global to the local, so in Scotland we’ll also be highlighting a national problem that has global implications – the four proposed unsustainable Forth Energy biomass plants: at Leith Docks, Grangemouth, Dundee, and Rosyth.

Globally, the rush to biomass is emerging as a major cause of land-grabbing and deforestation, which contributes to climate change and leads to flooding risks, human right abuses and threats to wildlife habitats and fragile ecosystems.

Where?

Edinburgh. From City Chambers (High St/Royal Mile) to Holyrood.

When?

Saturday 24th September. Assemble at 11:30 for 12:00 start.
The event coincides with the ‘world car-free day’ and also aims to put pressure on our global leaders in advance of the UN Climate Summit in Durban, South Africa, at the end of November.The event is supported by Biofuelwatch and Friends of the Earth Scotland.

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Scottish Education and Action for Development (SEAD) is a dynamic organisation which supports community action to tackle social and environmental injustice. We are looking for a creative and enthusiastic person to take up the rewarding role of Membership/1 % Campaign officer. The post will include assisting with the development and re launch of SEADs 1%er campaign as well as maintaining our membership systems.

Closing date for applications – 17^th October 2011

Interviews from – week beginning 24^th October

080911 SEAD membcamp Job Description and Person Spec

Application by CV and cover letter by 30^th September 2011

About SEAD

SEAD was established over 30 years ago to challenge the causes of poverty, social injustice and environmental degradation. We support the community-based movement for positive social change – people collectively tackling challenges with a local and global perspective. Our work is based on the following principles: people powered solutions, a rootedness in solidarity, and learning from each other.

What’s involved in being a Trustee?

We want great ideas, energy, passion and experience to stand behind everything we do. As a small organisation, our Trustees are absolutely essential to safeguarding and strengthening our ethos and impact. Trustees are expected to take an active interest in the development of the charity, and from time to time take on individual projects to that end. Applicants must be prepared to attend board meetings roughly once every 6 weeks and occasional member and strategy events. This is an unpaid, voluntary role, but relevant expenses will be covered (travel expenses limited to UK travel). Board members also need to become members of SEAD as soon as they are selected.

What are we looking for?

In particular, we are looking for people with:

Essential

- Knowledge of policy or practice and/or a passion in any of the following fields: activism, international or community development, community education (particularly participatory or popular education), social and environmental justice and human rights.

Desirable

- Senior management experience of voluntary sector agency, statutory sector agency or private enterprise

- Finance and accounting skills

- Fundraising skills.

- Web site content management skills

- Academic and research skills

- Media skills (TV, radio or press interviews)

- Events management skills

- Experience of supporting or managing staff

If you have any questions, or if you are uncertain about whether there might be a conflict of interest in making an application, please contact us at info[at]sead.org.uk

How do I apply?

- Read about our organisation from our web site.

- Browse our recent events archive for an insight into what we’ve been up to lately.

- Take a look at the SCVO web site section of  ‘The Roles and responsibilities of committee members’ for an idea of the legal framework that our board members operate in. See: http://bit.ly/m1o3Fg

- Email us your CV with a cover letter outlining your interest in becoming a Trustee and highlighting your most useful skills and experience. We would encourage you to highlight any personal experience you have had of the essential criteria stated above.

The deadline for applications is 5pm 30^th September 2011. Please email to info[at]sead.org.uk

SEAD (Scottish Education and Action for Development)
Norton Park
57 Albion Road
Edinburgh
EH7 5QY
t: ++44131 475 2612

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Join our photo petition today by sending a message to RBS to stop investing our money in companies extracting oil from tar sands.

Submit your photo to the RBS photo petition today in three easy steps:

• 1. Write your message on paper, your body, your bank card…
• 2. Take a photo of you and your message
• 3. Email the photo to gone32hint@photos.flickr.com

And in 5 or so minutes your photo will appear below.

Please try to reduce the size on the picture to below 1Mb before you email it, there are many ways but an easy guide to doing this is here (for XP) or here (for Vista).

We will be bringing these photos to the RBS AGM so please send us your photo by 18 April 2011, the evening before the RBS AGM.

Monday 18 April, 7-9pm, Edinburgh University

Indigenous people in Canada are fighting ‘the most destructive project on earth’ – the extraction of oil from tar sands and the building of a super-pipeline through their ancestral lands.  RBS is financing companies mining tar sands and planning the pipeline.

Hear powerful first-hand accounts of the destruction caused by tar sands extraction and the fight to stop the Enbridge pipeline, and help stop RBS making it worse with our money.

An area the size of Wales in Northern Alberta has been strip-mined for tar sands.  Now the planned 1,170 kilometre long oil pipeline will cross the territories of over 50 First Nations communities, as well as 785 watercourses.  RBS is financing Canadian company Enbridge who are behind this plan.

From this test-bed, the tar sand industry is now expanding globally; to Madagascar, Venezuela and Congo.  After a massive public bailout RBS continues to provide finance for companies mining tar sands around the world.  On the eve of the RBS AGM in Edinburgh this event is a vote against UK tax money financing fossil fuels.  RBS must not go back to black this way.

Speakers will include:

Jasmine Thomas, a member of the frog clan from Saik’uz British Columbia, Canada. Jasmine is strongly opposed to the Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline Project that plans to cross through her own and 52 other First Nations unceded traditional territories in British Columbia and Alberta.

Melina Laboucan-Massimo,  is Lubicon Cree from Northern Alberta. She is an advocate for indigenous rights, a documentary maker and works as Greenpeace Canada Tar Sands Climate and Energy Campaigner.

The event is free and will take place at Edinburgh University Chaplaincy, Bristo Square, Edinburgh EH8 9AL.  Register here to come along (navigates to FoE Scotland webpage)

Organised by WDM, Indigenous Environmental Network, People & Planet Edinburgh, UK Tar Sands Network, Friends of the Earth Scotland, Platform and SEAD.

Indigenous activists from Canada joined us in protests at the RBS 2010 AGM. Watch our film, be inspired and join us in the fight for climate justice! http://www.wdm.org.uk/tarsands

Click here to view the embedded video.

Email the chancellor today: http://www.wdm.org.uk/tarsands

The festival runs from 20th September until the 5th October in Glasgow and Edinburgh.  For more information and to see the programme, visit the Take One Action website.

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