2001

Welcoming the Drop the Debt bus from Leeds, en route for the G8 protest march in Genoa.

2003

Paris march, marking the end of the European Social Forum.

2004

Supporting Brighton WDM’s demonstration at the Labour Party Conference.

2005

Cuttlefish message on Bexhill Beach before the G9 Meeting.

With friends from Worthing WDM, before Make Poverty History March at G8 Conference in Edinburgh.

Make Poverty History.
March at the end of the all-night vigil in Westminster.

Local WDM members inside the European Parliament Building in Brussels.
Together with other members of the Trade Justice Coalition, we lobbied MEPs about the unfair trade deals being forced, by the EU, on poor, vulnerable countries around the world.

2007

Die-in outside De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill

WDM stall at Egerton Park Green Day, Bexhill.

WDM stall at Alexandra Park Green Fair.

2008

Michael Foster, Labour MP for Hastings and Rye, supports WDM’s campaign.

Making a splash for World Water Day.
European companies are trying to take over water supplies in the Global South. Local campaigners support developing nations which refuse to privatise their water.

Campaigning in Bexhill and Hastings against airport expansion.
Aviation generates carbon dioxide, and is still subsidised by the British taxpayer.

2009

Bexhill campaigners remind their MP, Greg Barker, of the need to pay this country’s debt to poor countries whose people have contributed very little to the climate crisis and who are suffering the effects of Western nations’ damage to the climate.
They present him with a giant invoice itemising the debt, with a request that he take WDM’s message back to Parliament.

Tug-of-war in Bexhill. Indigenous Farmers (left) versus International Bankers (right).
Fair Trade would help Third World nations to become self-supporting.

The town pipe and drum band summons shoppers to Devonshire Square, for the Bexhill launch of the BIG IF campaign against dirty coal and against plans for the expansion of the coal-fired Kingsnorth Power Station in Kent.

WDM chairman Denis Lucey, his wife Christina and faithful Mollie taking part in the demo against new dirty coal excavation at Kingsnorth Power Station.

London demonstration The Wave before the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference (COP 15).

The 15.5-hour journey from Brussels to Copenhagen.

Assembling with 100,000 other campaigners for the Climate Change March to the Bella Conference Centre.

2010

Outside the NatWest Bank, part of The Royal Bank of Scotland, in Bexhill.
RBS is 84-per-cent bailed out by taxpayers, and is using our money to finance the extraction of tar sands in Canada. This pollutes the environment, wastes energy and ruins the livelihood of indigenous communities.

WDM’s contribution to Bexhill Fair Trade Town celebration Peacing Together One World highlighted two alternative approaches to the management of climate change resources.
On the one hand, the World Bank Pilot Programme for Climate Resilience offers half its money as loans – to nations hard-pressed to repay. On the other hand, the UN Adaptation Fund offers grants on a non-commercial basis to those most in need.
The UK government has given £440 million to the World Bank (out of the aid budget!) but a loan(!) of only 66 thousand to the UN Adaptation Fund.
Our symbolic piggy bank, filled with gold chocolate coins, represented the World Bank. When the pinata was broken the coins fell into a bucket representing the UN Adaptation Fund.