Time to Act- Speakers and Facilitators
We have a number of great people speaking at the Time to Act event. See our programme to find out when each speaker is appearing.
Kate Pickett is a British epidemiologist who is Professor of Epidemiology in the Department of Health Sciences at the University of York. She co-authored (with Richard G. Wilkinson) The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better and and is a co-founder of The Equality Trust.
Asad Rehman is a member of the Executive Board of the Friends of the Earth International Federation and a co-ordinator of the Global Campaign to Demand Climate Justice. He is a veteran of the climate justice struggle and previously the anti-racist movement in the UK, as well as countless civil liberty campaigns- George Marshall co-founded the Climate Outreach and Information Network in 2004. COIN specialises in reaching new and non-radical audiences: from government departments to scouts and Rotary Clubs.. Before that George worked as a senior campaigner for Greenpeace and the Rainforest Foundation in the US and he was a founder of Earth First UK and Rising Tide
- Manuel Cortes is the General Secretary of the rail union TSSA (Transport Salaried Staffs’ Association).He speaks all round the country on behalf of the Campaign against Climate Change Trade Union Group and contributed to the pamphlet “One Million Climate Jobs”
Martin Empson is a long standing socialist and activist with the Campaign Against Climate Change. He helped produce the One Million Climate Jobs report and wrote ‘Land and Labour: Marxism, Ecology and Human History’.- Julie Ward MEP
- Anindya Bhattacharya, Defend the Right to Protest
- Bryn Kewley, E3G
- Chris Baugh, deputy general secretary PCS
- James MacColl, Campaign for Better Transport
- John Hilary, War on Want
- Martin Porter, Greenpeace
- Nick Dearden, Global Justice Now
- Rachel Thompson, Reclaim the Power
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