It rained all day, but they couldn’t drown out the angry voices chanting against the cuts! We joined the Put People First march on 1st October in Glasgow because the neo-liberal nonsense that is driving the ‘austerity’ programme in Westminster is the same crazy scheme to slash the state that has exacerbated poverty around the world over the last 30 years. We all need to stand together against unnecessary cuts, increased poverty, privatisation and the continual transfer of wealth from ordinary people to the financial elite.
Events
Climate Justice Now!
At the heart of the climate crisis lies a fundamental injustice. While rich countries got rich on an economy built on fossil fuels, it is poorer countries who are now paying the price in the form of rising water levels and changing weather patterns.
Ahead of the next UN climate talks in Durban, come and hear global debt and climate activist Lidy Nacpil from the Philippines, Liz Murray from the World Development Movement and James Picardo from Jubilee Scotland talk about climate change, debt and Scotland’s role in bringing about climate justice.
Thursday 6th October, 7.30 – 9.30pm, Renfield Centre, Bath St, Glasgow
This is a free event. All welcome.
Please let us know you are coming – office@wdmscotland.org.uk, or phone 0131 243 2730, or sign up online at https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=177490538993976
Organised by World Development Movement and Jubilee Scotland
Enjoy Your Meal
In this UK premiere, journey from your favourite restaurant to Kenya via the Amazon and Philippines to discover the social and environmental cost of the global food industry. Native tribes look on as huge tracts of rainforest are burned to grow soya. The livelihoods of local fishermen in Asia and subsistence farmers in Kenya are threatened as multinationals draw away their water supplies. Just who is paying for the food we love?
GFT, Saturday 1st October, 5:45pm
Followed by a discussion with leading food journalists and campaigners.
There Once was an Island
Takuu, a unique, centuries old island community in the Pacific Ocean, is going under water. This beautiful film gently explores the local response to this devastating news. One by one, families must choose between resettling to an alien mainland hundreds of kilometres away or staying to defend their culture, and watch their paradise disintegrate.
GFT, Saturday 24th September, 4pm
Followed by a discussion with leading international climate change campaigners.
Even the Rain
Another chance to see Iciar Bollain’s superb film about the Cochabamba revolution, when mass protests overturned the privatisation of the state water company. A timely reminder that multinational corporations would merrily privatise anything, even the rain, if they could make a profit from it.
GFT, Thursday 22nd September, 6pm
Followed by a Q&A with screenwriter Paul Laverty.
MEP’s are important too
The next crucial stage in the battle to regulate speculation in food commodities and stop the bankers gambling on hunger will take place in Europe. In October, the EU will propose new rules on commodity speculation, so we need to make sure that our MEP’s are aware of the issues. WDM Scotland has invited them all to:
Regulation, Speculation and World Food Prices
Friday 16 Sept, 10:30-12:30, European Parliament Information Office, The Tun, Edinburgh EH8 8PJ
All the parties are sending someone, so why not come along and make sure they realise how important this is – European regulation has never been so interesting!
See http://www.wdm.org.uk/events/regulation-speculation-and-world-food-prices for more info…
