We wandered along to the Glasgow and West of Scotland Greens AGM on Saturday. And whilst we were there, we thought we’d ask them to start the ball rolling on the #ScotsNoTTIP candidates’ pledge for the May elections. Great to see Patrick Harvie and Zara Kitson, the top two candidates on the Glasgow list, signing up straight away. Now for all the other parties…
System change, not climate change!
Great to be part of the 5000-strong People’s Climate March in Edinburgh yesterday. A really impressive turnout, despite the November rain. Let’s hope the negotiators in Paris are listening to the voice of the people – we need a robust deal. Business as usual is not an option – we need system change, not climate change!
Slaying the corporate lobby!
Those 3 million European signatures against TTIP (not to mention the 50,000+ in Scotland and 14,000+ from Glasgow…) seem to be having an effect… The evil corporate lobbyist couldn’t stand up against all that opposition!
Great to have so many people from the Scotland Against TTIP coalition and the Scottish Greens shouting about the awful corporate power-grab that is TTIP this morning. We’ll stop it yet…
How many signatures?!?
We’re coming up to the end of the European Citizens Initiative petition against TTIP and there are just about 3 million signatures. That’s over a million more than any ECI has achieved before. So it’s time the European Commission and the UK government took some notice of the level of opposition. To mark the International Day of Action on Trade, we’ll be getting together with colleagues from the Scotland Against TTIP coalition to make some noise and get the message across – Stop TTIP!
Saturday 10th Oct, 9:30-10am
SECC, Glasgow
Come along and join us – it won’t take much of your day, so you can still get into the Greens conference if that’s where you’re headed, or off to do whatever you want with your Saturday. Bring a placard, bring a friend or just bring your righteous anger against TTIP!
Tigers!
We’ll be at the ever-marvellous Take One Action film festival this Sunday for the screening of Tigers – a moving thriller about Nestle’s continued aggressive marketing of baby milk powder.
Sunday 20 Sept, 5-7:30pm
GFT, Rose Street
See the film and find out more through the audience discussion afterwards – we need to challenge this kind of crazy corporate power.
The human pea storms Mugstock!
We had a grand day out at Mugstock last weekend with our free lucky dip. The human pea came along to encourage people to Free the Seeds. And loads of people signed action cards telling the UK government to stop throwing aid money at the corporate takeover of African agriculture.
If you missed the chance, you can still tell the government to stop playing corporate games with farmers’ livelihoods.
