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Film screening: Blood of the Amazon (Reading)

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This full-length documentary covers one woman’s journey down the Amazon in a series of small boats, researching the effects of the oil industry on the environment and indigenous people. The documentary is followed by a Q&A and discussion with the director, Nicola Peel.

Held at Reading International Solidarity Centre, Main Hall, 35-39 London Street, Reading, RG1 4PS.

Date: Wednesday 23 October 2013.

Time: 7:30pm-10pm

Watch the trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1VfKt4qPiI

Read the Guardian review: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2011/oct/28/blood-of-the-amazon-nicola-peel

This event is not organised by WDM.

Talk on climate change policy (Garsington)

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Tony Venables, BP Professor of Economics and Director of the Oxford Centre for the Analysis of Resource Rich Economies (OxCarre) will be giving a talk in Garsington on 22nd October. The title of the talk is Climate change: what should policy do? The meeting is primarily for village residents but please contact WDM if you are interested in attending and we may be able to arrange for you to come as a guest of a local resident. This event is not organised by WDM.

Shell is Hell film screening

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A double-bill of films about Shell will take place at OARC (above East Oxford Community Centre) on Sunday 10th November. The films are Poison Fire and Delta Boys, both about Shell’s oil drilling in the Niger delta. An activist from Niger will lead the discussion afterwards. This event is not organised by WDM.

Lobbying Bill is open door to corporate takeover

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WDM’s head of policy and campaigns, Hannah Griffiths, has published a response to the Lobbying Bill currently being debated in Parliament. She argues that it leaves an “open door” for lobbyists to get access to the Government because the impact of the lobbyist register being proposed is so tiny.

Even more worryingly, the Bill attempts to change the definition of what counts as “election campaigning” in the lead-up to an election, in a way that threatens to silence many campaign groups (such as WDM) in election years.

Read Hannah’s blog post about the Lobbying Bill

Sign the 38 Degrees petition against the Bill’s proposals