On 29th July we’re planning to hold a stall at the Edinburgh Farmers’ Market. Lady Luck will be there enticing people to place a bet in the casino of food speculation to see if they will win and eat well, or loose and go hungry that day. Fears are however that the fat cat bankers might be there to play and rig the odds in their favour!
The stall will raise awareness of WDM’s food speculation campaign and ask market shoppers to sign postcards to George Osborne calling for regulation to stop big banks playing casino-style games with the price of basic food which pushes up prices and leaves poor families going hungry. We’re looking for volunteers to help on the day, please get in touch if you can spare an hour.
We had planned our July meeting to include a discussion on Rio+20 but our planned speaker is out of the country for the summer, we hope to re-arrange for September or October. Instead we watched the 30min documentary ‘Seeds of Freedom’ available to stream or download from http://seedsoffreedom.info.
