Lse International Inequalities Institute

Do you want to help rebuild #London's #fair city - and meet a bunch of like-minded allies? Would you like to spend a day talking and learning about #inequalities-busting policy, practice and campaigning strategies ahead of the 2020 mayoral election (and get a free lunch, too)?
If you do, don't hang about! There are still a few spots left on The Equality Trust My Fair London's *free* workshop on building a manifesto for a fairer capital on Saturday 27 July at Unite the union'...s HQ. Sign up now!
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-london-w e-want-building-a-…
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"Where is the #UN and the #AfricanUnion when we need them?": the view from the back of a kombi van in #austerity -gripped #Zimbabwe.
Maureen Sigauke Atlantic Fellows asks: "If global and regional integration can't take on national crises such as ours, what hope is there that they can address global challenges, and especially #inequalities of all kinds?"
https://afsee.atlanticfellows.org/…/mau reen-sigauke-zimbabw…

It's an unfair world. So why don't we care about #inequality?
Watch #III researcher Jonathan Mijs tell a TEDxLondon audience why the more unequal the world becomes, the less we realise it - and the more we believe in the myth of #meritocracy.
http://www.lse.ac.uk/…/V…/Why-you-don t-care-about-inequality

#Change is coming - and the change-makers are coming to LSE!
We're proud to announce our 14 new @AtlanticFellows for Social and Economic Equity, drawn from 13 countries in Africa, Asia, South and North America and Europe.
Meet Madhu, Hobeth, Esther, Michaela, Leanne, sophea, Della, Alon-Lee, Joan, Asha, Liz, Foluke, Crystal and Amanda:
... https://afsee.atlanticfellows.org/…/new -afsee-cohort-announ…
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"The #climateemergency will disproportionately impact the poorest people in the world. London Climate Action Week centres on this core truth: to change everything we need everyone."
Hillary Vipond, Atlantic Fellows for Social and Economic Equity, is part of the team behind Mayor of London's #LondonClimateActionWeek, 140+ events running 1-8 July that will bring a city together: faith and community groups, researchers and universities, bankers who can fund green finance, policy-makers, lawyers and international business leaders.

"We should be mobilising as if for war: this is a fight for human life on this planet."
Atlantic Fellow for Social and Economic Equity Hillary Vipond, is part of the Mayor of London team behind the first-ever London Climate Action Week, 140+ events running 1-8 July that will bring the city's #climateaction champions together, from faith and community groups to business and green finance, and from scientists, researchers and policymakers to artists and activists.
#ClimateEmerg...ency #LondonClimateActionWeek #MayorofLondon
https://www.london.gov.uk/…/clim…/lon don-climate-action-week
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"I woke up, and discovered that for the second time in the space of a week, the price of fuel had risen. I boarded a kombi to get to work, and wasn't surprised that I heard anger, hope, despondence and anxiety shared (and shouted) by my fellow passengers for the whole of the ride":
Maureen Sigauke of Atlantic Fellows for Social and Economic Equity reports from #Zimbabwe on daily life in the grip of austerity - and why her countrymen and women fear that the UN, African Union and South African Development Community have abandoned them to their fate.

#SouthAfrica champions #openjustice in theory, with #equity the aim of access for all, says Gabriella Razzano of @OpenUpSA and Atlantic Fellows for Social and Economic Equity. But even for a trained lawyer ('not practicing, although obviously I have LA Law as my ringtone'), what happens in reality when you try to access court records can be frustratingly different.
Gabriella's experience of trying to wrestle a set of papers from the bureaucratic maw of Western Cape High Court was 'a painful experience, and a sad one'. Find out why:
https://afsee.atlanticfellows.org/…/gab riella-razzano-court…

'Whenever weapons are produced, they are used. And it is usually the poor people of the world who end up using them against other poor people, in war': Milena Abrahamyan, Atlantic Fellows for Social and Economic Equity, on the deadly feedback loop of #inequality & militarisation.
https://afsee.atlanticfellows.org/…/mil ena-abrahamyan-arms-…

#Chile's government is ultimately responsible for the health and #environmental damage in the country's polluted 'sacrifice zones', the Supreme Court has said in a historic ruling.
Activists Mujeres de Zona de Sacrificio Quintero - Puchuncaví en Resistencia played a key role in the court victory, writes Anita Pena Saavedra, Atlantic Fellows for Social and Economic Equity, in openDemocracy
#ChaoCarbon
... https://afsee.atlanticfellows.org/…/ani ta-pena-saavedra-muz…
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We all rely on #carework. So why are care jobs so poorly paid, and why are care workers so poorly protected?
On Thursday 20 June, come to The London School of Economics and Political Science - LSE to hear inspirational US labour #activist Ai-jen Poo speak on #inequality, #fairpay, and why care work is the work that makes all other work possible.
https://afsee.atlanticfellows.org/…/ai- jen-poo-on-the-futur…

Un scandale se dévoile au #Sénégal, et il est de notre devoir de citoyens de demander des explications, exige Elimane Kane LEGS-Africa: Leadership, Ethique, Gouvernance, Stratégies pour l'Afrique Atlantic Fellows
Il écrit « LEGS-Africa élève sa voix pour donner suite à ses soupçons de corruption, de conflit d’intérêt et de gestion nébuleuse du pétrole et du gaz au Sénégal et demande que la lumière soit faite sur ces accusations graves et que les responsabilités soient clairement situées. »

So if "radical #sisterhood" is a thing, what does it look like?
#AFSEE's Ebru Ilhan on three inspiring women - Roseline Orwa, Melanie R. Brown and Ai-jen Poo - who "focus on acknowledging the power, knowledge and agency of individuals and communities that the traditional winners take all system makes invisible, undeserving and disposable".