Ethical Development and Campaigning course

cork | miscellaneous | event notice Wednesday October 17, 2007 20:53 by Dave - EDA Cork edacork at gmail dot com

EDA will run a six week evening course entitled Ethical Development and Campaigning

Guest speakers will draw our attention to current developments in and facilitate discussion on a broad range of Ethical Development topics. These include Global Trade, including WTO, World Agriculture and Fair Trade; Human Trafficking and Workers’ Rights; Important past and current Development Campaigns and campaigning skills.

Ethical Development Action (EDA) is a new Cork-based organisation set up to raise awareness of International Development issues and tackle Global Inequality. It is a membership-led organisation established to facilitate the ongoing volunteer-led activism in Cork which its members have been involved in over the past 20 years. In particular, it will focus on addressing issues of global inequality through the promotion of awareness, campaigning and education on the ethical components of a range of development issues.

The course will take place from 7pm to 9.30pm on Tuesday evenings starting on October 23. The course location is Nasc (the Irish Immigrant Support Centre), 35 Mary Street, off Georges Quay in the City Centre. Speakers for this course include Mary Crilly, Eilish Dillon, Carol Doyle, Jacqui O’Riordan, Tom Crowley, Mike FitzGibbon, Martin Naarendrop, Don Pollard and Stephen Thornhill.

The course is open for all, at a bargain price of €25, with concessions for students (€5) unwaged, asylum seekers (€1) and members are free!