Action
Climate Jobs Bloc on the Edinburgh and Glasgow May Day marches (4thMay Edinburgh, 5thMay Glasgow). PC and KW to liaise over text of invite to unions and environmental activists to join the march. PS has spoken to graphic designer about producing artwork for a climate jobs banner.
On Sunday May 5th there will be a Book fair at the Kirkgate Community Centre in Leith as part of the May Day events. We could have a side room to show films/ hold discussions. Agreed that perhaps we should have two fixed times for discussion. REEL News may be able to attend. More details to follow.
BP explained about the ‘Lucas Plan’ group in England. We’ve been invited to speak on Just Transition at a conference in Manchester on April 13th. BP can attend – DS may also be able to – anyone not at the meeting who is interested in going please email to let us know.
Draft of blog post responding to the GMB’s criticism of the Just Transition Commission is now complete – agreed to circulate more widely and then publish after any further amendments are made.
STUC conference in Dundee 15th – 17thApril. We’ll speak at a joint fringe meeting with Scottish CND. Joe Pisani has agreed to speak. PC will check if it’s possible to have another contribution to say something about ScotE3. Agreed that we should prioritise having a woman speaker for this. Please let us know if you are going to be at the conference or can attend to help with leafleting.
We’ve been invited to speak to the Edinburgh Green Party on Climate Jobs and Just Transition on Thursday 25 April. Agreed that it would be useful to focus on these issues in terms of local action – eg housing. We can do this as a collective contribution rather than just one voice so if you’d be interested in helping please email.
Agreed to publicise and support the Climate Rally at the Scottish Parliament on 2ndApril, 12.30 to 2pm as MSPs discuss the new Climate Bill.
Agreed that discussion on an autumn conference should be a main agenda point at the next organising meeting
Agreed that over the next few days we would work on two new blog posts/briefings – one on the Energy from Waste Schemes that are currently being built and one on the proposed State Energy Company – if you’d like to contribute to either of these projects please email to let us know.
Information
It’s planned that the next Glasgow meeting will be a public meeting on Public ownership.
Glasgow activists are looking to source Scot.E3 tee-shirts
Recent posts on the Scot.E3 blog include ‘Reflections on BiFab’, ‘Unlocking the jobs potential of zero carbon’ and “Fuel Poverty, Energy and the fight for Climate Jobs’
After it’s first meeting future meetings of the Just Transition Commission will be on themed topics.
Next School Students Strikes are Friday 12 April
Employment, Energy and Environment 