Events

The European Commission are still trying to negotiate the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership behind closed doors. If we weren’t suspicious enough about secret negotiations on a charter for corporations’ rights, it turns out that they are strangely reluctant to have any democratic scrutiny of the deal. We haven’t quite finalised our plans yet, but we’re aiming to take action on the European Day of Action against TTIP.

Saturday 11 October, 12:30pm, Buchanan Street (meet at Donald Dewar statue)

There will be people taking action right across Europe – we can stop this lunacy before it’s too late. And you can help promote the action via Facebook.

The marvellous Take One Action film festival is coming round again, bringing superb movies to inspire, enthuse and help you to change the world. We’ll be at some of the films to let people know how they can take one action, including:

The Revolutionary Optimists, Sat 27 Sept, 3:15pm, GFT

 

Millions Can Walk, Sat 27 Sept, 7:30pm, CCA

And there are just loads of other brilliant films and activities to get your teeth into. Click here for all the info about the whole festival.

We’ll be heading down to sunny Lanarkshire for the mighty fine Root n Toot festival, which will be full of cool workshops, stalls, music and more.

Sat 6 Sept, 11:30am-4:30pm, plus evening music festival from 7pm

Ballerup Hall, Civic Centre, Andrew Street, East Kilbride, G74 1Ab

We’ll have a stall with loads of info and we’ll be running a workshop to introduce the good folk of EK to all our campaigns. So come along and say hi. More info on RnT here…

Behind closed doors, the EU and the US have been quietly negotiating a major new trade deal. The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) will give corporations more power over our society, environment, public services and democracy. Crucially, it will include an ‘Investor-State Dispute Settlement’ clause, allowing companies to sue governments if new policy reduces their profit. But there’s a growing campaign against it on both sides of the Atlantic – come and join us as part of the No TTIP day of action.

Saturday 12 July, 11am – 1pm, outside Hillhead Library, Byres Road

We’ll be making a spectacle of ourselves for the press (there’ll be puppets and bowler hats and everything!) and also talking to passers-by about the madness of TTIP. This might be an EU-US treaty, but it’s being negotiated to set the standard for all trade deals around the world. Click here for more info.

Those lovely people at RBS were having their AGM in Edinburgh today, so we thought we’d go along and take some of the tasty coal that they’ve been throwing money at. It’s not so long ago that we the people bailed RBS out of the humongous hole that they’d dug for themselves, into which they were trying to drag the entire global economy. And we still own a majority stake in the bank. So it seems kind of strange that they’re playing fast and loose with all our futures by continuing to fund coal and other fossil fuel projects around the world.

You can take action here to tell them to stop this nonsense!!!

The UK government and the big agribusiness corporations are trying to take control of Africa’s food. We’re holding an informal evening with film clips and chat about our new campaign to stop UK aid money being used to to help corporations slice up African agriculture.

Thursday 19 June, 7-8:30pm

The Bank Cafe, Neilston, Glasgow G78 3EA

Come along to find out more about WDM’s campaign and for tips and advice on how you can help lobby your local MP…and if you happen to live in East Renfrewshire you get a bonus prize because your MP is the Shadow Secretary of State for International Development.
The event is free and open to all, but please let us know if you’re thinking of coming along by registering here.  And you can see more about the campaign here.