We’ll be at the West End Farmers Market this Sat, talking to shoppers about our Carbon Capital campaign.
Saturday 23 November, 10am-2pm
West End Farmers Market, Mansfield Park
Come along and say hi, find out about the campaign and sign an action card if you have two minutes. You can find out more about the campaign here, or take action right now.
All the big UK banks are fuelling climate change by funding fossil fuel projects around the world. And HSBC are among the worst – financing coal to the tune of £3.8bn, and £75bn in share issues for fossil fuel companies over the last few years. So we thought we’d open a wee coal mine outside the bank to highlight the craziness of funding global warming.
Saturday 9 November, 12-1pm
Outside HSBC (corner of Buchanan St and Argyle St)
We’ll have a couple of bankers, a couple of miners, and maybe even a human piece of coal to raise awareness with the good folk of Glasgow. Come along to find out more, and sign an action card if you have a minute to spare.
Or you can take action online right now.
Not content with trying to wreck the global economy, those pesky financial institutions are funding climate change by lending shed-loads of cash to fossil fuel extraction around the world. We’re honoured to have two speakers from campaigns in Colombia and Indonesia, coming to speak in Glasgow:
Monday 28 October, 7pm
Adams Room, Teacher Building, St. Enoch Square, G1 4DB
Yasmin Romero Epiayu is from Fuerza de Mujeres Wayuu, an indigenous women’s organisation standing up against the vast Cerrejon coalmine in Colombia, and Hendrik Siregar is the coordinator of JATAM, the Indonesian mining advocacy network, which works with affected communities.
It’s a free event, so come and hear about the impacts of carbon capital in the global South. For more info, contact us at wdmglasgow@gmail.com
Who would have thought it? The Lib Dems have failed to keep a manifesto pledge. At the 2010 election, they committed to holding a full audit of all the developing country debt owed to the UK government. However, Vince Cable (who is responsible for UK Export Finance, as Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills) is now strangely silent on the matter.
So during the Lib Dem conference in Glasgow, we joined up with our friends from Jubilee Scotland to remind him of the issue. Still not sure what was most scary – the skeletons, the giant Vince heads, or the Lib Dems’ failure to live up to their principles…
For more info about the issues, see Jubilee Scotland’s site
It’s that time of year again – another host of inspiring, enthralling, educational films to fire up your blood. The Take One Action film festival is here with some stonkers as ever. For all the details, see www.takeoneaction.org.uk
Or find them on Facebook at www.facebook.com/takeoneaction
We all have more influence when we work together. So WDM Scotland’s Gathering is a great opportunity to meet up with other local campaigners on global justice, to share ideas and strengthen our collective voice.
Saturday 7th September, 12-4:45pm (11:30 for coffee and registration)
Stirling Methodist Church, Queen Street, Stirling, FK8 1HL
It’s a free event, but to book a place and find out more, go to www.wdm.org.uk/events/scotland-gathering
