Amazing to hear Andy Burnham pledge to fight for a Greater Manchester where people can live free from the fear of debt.

We will be campaigning for every party and every candidate to do the same at the forthcoming general election ✊

theguardian.com/politics/live/…

Andy Burnham Congratulations! Well deserved. And I’ll hold you to this, and I’ll make sure that as many people as I can muster with the people who lift us up, hold you to this. Thank you, hope you have a beer tonight. Cheers Debt Justice NEF
theguardian.com/politics/live/…

🚨ONLINE EVENT: Debt, Colonialism & Power 🚨

Join Debt Justice & CAFOD on *23rd May 7pm* (BST) to explore colonialism's debt legacy, today's debt crisis - & how we fight it ✊🏾

W/ debt campaigner Bernard Anaba & CAFOD's Maria Finnerty🔥

act.debtjustice.org.uk/online-event-d…

#CanceltheDebt

#Pakistan Prime Minister Sharif says the country's debt trap has become a 'death trap' youtube.com/watch?v=WO-xtm…

We had an amazing time this week with students at Queen Mary University and the brilliant Jennifer Randall exploring how we can use our power to collectively work towards #DebtJustice and wider #SocialJustice around the world ✊✊✊

New research from the CCJ, Climate and Community Project, and Third World Network shows how governments are “exporting extinction.” Join us on Zoom to discuss this research and how to break the status quo of extractivism.

📆 Tuesday May 7 @ 09:00 PDT/12:00 EDT/16:00 UTC
📲 RSVP: tinyurl.com/CCJ-7May2024

Today we launch our new report on agricultural work in the UK. This report – the 2nd in our series on the seasonal worker visa – sheds light on the conditions that are leaving thousands of people trapped in cycles of debt. Read it here:bit.ly/3UpNYRD 🧵

Vital research reveals how the UK's seasonal worker scheme is driving people into debt 👇

HAPPENING NOW IN PECKHAM: people are resisting a deportation attempt outside the Best Western Hotel, SE15 5EU. People are being moved against their will onto the Bibby Stockholm

📈 Rising wealth inequality is causing social and environmental harm but political action is not keeping pace.

Could changing the way we talk about wealth inequality drive political action? A new JRF report by LSE Inequalities' researchers explores 📒 🔽 jrf.org.uk/wealth-funding….

As the climate crisis progresses, the UK will face more floods, droughts and heatwaves. We are woefully unprepared to deal with the impacts of these extreme weather events on people, businesses and communities. 1/3

Inspiring initiative to cancel personal debt in the Netherlands.

It has led to conversations in the office about whether we should to emulate here in the UK? 🤔

theguardian.com/world/2024/apr…

BREAKING ⚠️ Shell has posted profits of £6.1 BILLION for the first three months of 2024 💷

This is obscene!

We NEED a government that puts ordinary people's interests before the energy industry's profits, by investing in permanent solutions to the energy crisis.

Great Whitechapel LDN piece covering the Unfair Debt Group - Tower Hamlets 's campaign to ban the bailiffs in Tower Hamlets! 👇👏

whitechapellondon.co.uk/unfair-debt-gr…

Workers standing together is the route to a more equal, better society. On #InternationalWorkersDay and every day, we owe unions for paid holidays, maternity leave, weekends, equality laws, and so much more!
Join a union: tuc.org.uk/joinunion
#MayDay

Last week we shared our latest client insights report 'In work. But still in debt.' This report delves into the experiences of full-time employed clients facing debt.

Dive into our findings 👇

stepchange.org/policy-and-res…

.Navendu Mishra asks a vital question - how much do bailiffs hired by local authorities collect from people in debt?

The Minister admits that they don't know...🫤

theyworkforyou.com/wrans/?id=2024…

Some sound advice here but over ONE THIRD of UK households rent their homes.

These people cannot simply replace their boilers or install insulation and they are paying the price for it 💷

We desperately need solutions to the energy crisis for ALL of us, not just homeowners.

Dividend payments to rich shareholders have grown 14 times faster than workers’ wages. This explosion in inequality is not an accident — it's the result of an economy designed to reward corporate greed. tribunemag.co.uk/2024/05/inequa…

On International Workers Day we celebrate the bonds that unite workers across the world in our pursuit of equality and justice.

We are a proudly pro trade union employer and recognise the vital role that unions play in our mission to tackle unjust debt.

#MayDay #MayDay 2024