Campaigning for justice for the world's poor in Oxfordshire
Oxfam is running a free training workshop on how to take action against the injustice of corporate tax-dodging. The event is open to existing and new Oxfam supporters.
The workshop takes place in London on Saturday 20th July. Book your free place
For more information, contact Kate Meakin on 0207 802 9977 or kmeakin@oxfam.org.uk
This event is not organised by WDM.
We’ll have a stall at the Cowley Road Carnival on Sunday 7th July. Do come and say hello!
WDM’s June meeting was a chance to plan the details of our appearance at summer events. We’ve confirmed that we will definitely have a stall at the Cowley Road Carnival on 7th July. We may also be at the Elder Stubbs festival on 17th August.
We also confirmed that our August meeting (on Tuesday 13th August) will be a summer social, with non-members welcome as ever. The details of this will be sorted out over the next few weeks, and we’ll pop them up on the website as soon as everything is confirmed.
If you see our WDM T-shirts at an Oxfordshire event this summer, please do come and say hello!
As ever, we’ll be spending the meeting discussing upcoming events and campaigns. You don’t have to be a member of Oxford WDM to join us – interested members of the public are welcome too. Just come along to Oxford Town Hall on Tuesday 9th July at 7:30pm.
The May meeting was the Oxford group’s Annual General Meeting, which meant it was time to elect the new committee for 2013-2014.
We said a big thank-you and goodbye to Chris Manley, who stepped down as secretary after several years’ excellent work. We’re hoping he will continue to be involved with the group.
Mike Dee offered to become the new secretary and was elected unopposed (with warm thanks from the group for volunteering). He will now be the main point of contact for the group at oxfordwdm@gmail.com.
Other committee members were re-elected to their posts for another year. The new committee is as follows:
Chair: Sam Partington
Secretary: Mike Dee
Treasurer: Tina Everett
Communications Officer: Kate Griffin
Writer/editor of the Oxspur newsletter: Andrew Hodgson
Some tasks still don’t have a regular person allotted to them, such as:
We will also be looking for a new treasurer soon. If you’re interested in helping the group, in however small a way, please do get in touch on oxfordwdm@gmail.com.
Meet other WDM group members, share experiences, and come up with ideas and solutions for effective local campaigning. 11am-3pm ((tea and coffee from 10.30 am). At Christchurch, 105a Clarendon Park Rd, Leicester, LE2 3AH.
We’re part of Global Justice Now, a democratic membership organisation which campaigns against inequality and injustice in the global economy. We want to see a world where ordinary people control the resources they need to live a decent life, rather than corporations and the super rich calling the shots.