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EU Hustings – 26th April 2014

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Nottingham WDM, together with Nottingham Friends of the Earth and Save Sherwood Forest are organising EU Hustings on 26th April;, for the forthcoming EU elections.

Details as follows:

EU Hustings, focussing on the environment, trade and development.

Date: Saturday 26th April, 2pm-4pm, (Tea and coffee available from 1:45pm)

Location: Friends Meeting House, Clarendon Street, Nottingham, NG1 5JD

All welcome. Come and hear MEP candidates talk about the environment, trade and development. and answer your questions.

***** Please note there was originally some uncertainty as to whether this was going ahead but this event has now been confirmed  ****

 

Carbon Capital Campaign

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HSBC Carbon Capital Protest

We held a Climate Crime Scene protest outside HSBC in Nottingham city centre. We labelled the bank as a crime scene because of its role in financing fossil fuel extraction, and asked members of the public to sign action cards, to be delivered to HSBC with a piece of coal for each action card.

 

Carbon Capital Speaker Tour

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WDM held a successful speaker meeting at the Friends Meeting House on 21st October.

The speakers were Yasmin Romero Epiayu, Fuerza de Mujeres Wayuu, Colombia and Kirsty Wright, World Development Movement climate campaigner

Banks, hedge funds and pension funds based in Britain are bankrolling the extraction of fossil fuels all over the world. These dirty energy projects are wrecking communities and fuelling climate change while doing nothing to increase energy access for local people.

Yasmin Romero Epiayu lives in the La Guajira region of northern Colombia, where the giant Cerrejón coal mine has swallowed up whole villages, forced people out of their homes and destroyed the local environment. The coal that is extracted is exported, fuelling dirty electricity production and causing climate change. Yasmin will talk about how her indigenous women’s organisation, Fuerza de Mujeres Wayuu, has been working in a coalition to fight the expansion of the mine.

This event was part of the Carbon Capital speaker tour, organised by the World Development Movement with the help of Colombia Solidarity Campaign, London Mining Network and Down to Earth.

Find out more about our campaign at www.wdm.org.uk/carbon-capital

East Midlands Teach In

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WDM East Midlands Day in Leicester

 – Saturday 1st June, 11am -to 3pm (tea and coffee available from 10.30am)

This was a very successful day with activists from the all the East Midlands groups – Leicester, Northamptonshire, Derby and Nottingham, as well as from the Coventry and Milton Keynes groups, and two members of WDM staff.  As well as a workshop on the new Climate Capital campaign and an update on the other campaigns, everyone valued the opportunity to talk to other activists and discuss common concerns and possibilities. We hope to make this an annual event.