Gluaiseacht for Global Justice is an Irish environmental, peace and
social justice group. ''Gluaiseacht'' () means "movement" in the
Irish language
Irish ( Standard Irish: ), also known as Gaelic, is a Goidelic language of the Insular Celtic branch of the Celtic language family, which is a part of the Indo-European language family. Irish is indigenous to the island of Ireland and was ...
. The group believes in
non-violent resistance to the current form of
capitalist globalisation
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. It was originally a network of Ecological and One World Societies at universities and colleges throughout
Ireland. It is a member of the
Irish Environmental Network.
Gluaiseacht has been involved in
anti-nuclear protests
Anti-nuclear protests began on a small scale in the U.S. as early as 1946 in response to Operation Crossroads. Large scale anti-nuclear protests first emerged in the mid-1950s in Japan in the wake of the March 1954 Lucky Dragon Incident. Aug ...
at the
Trident submarine base in
Faslane
His Majesty's Naval Base, Clyde (HMNB Clyde; also HMS ''Neptune''), primarily sited at Faslane on the Gare Loch, is one of three operating bases in the United Kingdom for the Royal Navy (the others being HMNB Devonport and HMNB Portsmouth). It ...
,
Scotland, and the
Sellafield
Sellafield is a large multi-function nuclear site close to Seascale on the coast of Cumbria, England. As of August 2022, primary activities are nuclear waste processing and storage and nuclear decommissioning. Former activities included nucle ...
nuclear plant.
Gluaiseacht organised the 2002
Ecotopia gathering
''Ecotopia: The Notebooks and Reports of William Weston'' is a utopian novel by Ernest Callenbach, published in 1975. The society described in the book is one of the first ecological utopias and was influential on the counterculture and the gre ...
(an annual summer camp for activists in
Europe) in association with
European Youth For Action European Youth For Action (EYFA) is an environmental youth network in Europe. It is based in Amsterdam and has partner organizations in 18 European countries.
History
EYFA started in 1985 as the European Youth Forest Action; a campaign organise ...
.
See also
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Conservation movement
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Environmentalism
References
External links
Gluaiseacht for Global Justice Official site
Environmental organisations based in Ireland
Anti–nuclear weapons movement
All-Ireland organisations
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