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Our Community United – oppose the far right in Gloucester

Join us and other groups across Gloucestershire on Saturday 30th August from 12.30pm outside the Ibis Hotel in Gloucester, GL4 3DG

Take a stand in solidarity with people seeking asylum who are being threatened by a far right protest advertised to take place at 2pm at the Ibis Hotel in Gloucester where people seeking asylum are living.

Groups across Gloucestershire including CSSD are working together to hold a counter protest. We won’t let the far right scapegoat people seeking refuge for the problems in this country – we won’t be divided.

Agenda 2030: Debunking Myths, Engaging With Real Critiques.

Far-right conspiracy theorists have claimed that the UN’s Agenda 2030 for sustainable development is a secret plan for a new world order that will control all our lives. Here we briefly outline Agenda 2030, examine the far-right’s myths, and outline genuine critiques of Agenda 2030.

Follow-up from our Food, Farming and The Future meeting

Below are the references to Jade Bashford’s introduction, based on her decades of work in this area, and the text of Judith Large’s short talk. If you’d be interested in being kept in the loop re what’s going on locally in Stroud District around food and growing, please get in touch and we can connectContinue reading “Follow-up from our Food, Farming and The Future meeting”

Don’t ban Palestine Action – solidarity statement

We demand that the government ends all diplomatic, economic and military support for Israel, and withdraw their threat to proscribe Palestine Action. If the government goes ahead with their plans to proscribe Palestine Action, we signal our intention to make the proscription unworkable – to defy it, to encourage others to do so, and to assist people in taking actions similar to those taken by Palestine Action.

It is necessary to directly disrupt the production of weapons used in the genocide in Gaza and in the illegal occupation and apartheid conducted by the Israeli state, and to protest the companies and institutions complicit in this.

Food, Farming & The Future, advert for public meeting – 25th May 2025

Join us for an inspiring meeting learning from people involved in positive and practical projects around food and farming locally. We’ll explore people’s concerns about corporate control of the food system, the future of farming, and how concerns about food and farming are being hijacked to recruit people to harmful ideas.

Sunday 25th May, 4-6pm, Trinity Rooms, Field Road, Stroud GL5 2HZ

Stop the Fascist Creep, advert for public meeting – 11th May 2025

How do you feel about the rise of the far right?

What do we value that we may lose?

How do we stop the fascist creep in Stroud?

Community Solidarity Stroud District is hosting an open event on Sunday 11th May from 2pm to 4pm at the Trinity Rooms, Field Road, Stroud GL5 2HZ where we can come together to discuss what more Stroud can do. Please come along.

Jeremy Green’s speech on protests in Gaza and Israel at the Ceasefire Vigil

Every week the Stroud Ceasefire Now Coalition – of which CSSD is a member – holds a vigil from 6-6.15pm outside the Sub Rooms forecourt in Stroud. Speeches are made to open the silent vigil, with banners and placards displayed, followed by announcements about relevant events. Speeches are given by representatives of the different groups that made up the coalition. On Friday 28th March 2025, Jeremy Green gave a speech on protests in Gaza and Israel in the previous week. You can watch it or read the full text on our website