Our campaigners talked to people about food security and asked them to write to their MPs asking for the UK to withdraw funding and support for the G8’s New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition.
noTTIP DAY OF ACTION, 12 JULY 2014
More than 20 campaigners turned up for the noTTIP day of Action in Reading town centre. Three campaigners acted as puppeteers to illustrate how, if agreed, TTIP would allow big business to pull the strings of our public services and democratic processes. A nurse puppet represented the privatisation of public services, a judge showed the undermining of democracy and a farmer puppet represented the threat to food safety standards and the environment.
Campaigners were dismayed that so few people had heard about TTIP but pleased by the number of people who stopped to listen and to take away literature about it.
STOP THE CORPORATE TAKEOVER OF AFRICAN FOOD
On 11th June, Achame Shana representing Africa, pushed off the corporates like Unilever, Monsanto and Diageo who are trying to take over African land, seeds and agriculture. They are being helped to do this with hundred’s of millions of pounds of our taxpayers’ money through a scheme called ‘The New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition.’
Everyone who attended the meeting was shocked to hear that this is the way the UK is spending our Aid budget rather than supporting the African farmers who produce 70% of the countries food.
ACTION AGAINST TTIP
Concerned about the outcome of the TTIP trade talks between the European Union and the U.S.A, we staged a tug of war between Corporate Power and Citizens Rights. Passers-by joined in enthusiastically so the local citizens won convincingly! We asked passers-by to sign cards asking their MPs to demand full transparency on the TTIP negotiations and to protect democracy, public services and the environment by opposing this aggressive new trade deal.
Take back the power: make trade work for people and planet
New corporate trade deals threaten to increase global inequality, undermine democracy and hand public service provision to multinational companies. Corporations will be able to sue governments if their profits are threatened, with no such ability available to countries.One such deal is the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) between theUSA and the EU, which must be stopped before it is rolled out around the world.
This is a key time to ask MEP candidates to show their commitment to trade justice by supporting the Alternative Trade Mandate by signing the: Take back the power pledge
Kate Byron of Trade Justice Movement and Alex Scrivener of WDM will update us on these issues.
Wednesday 30 April 7.30pm
Reading International Solidarity Centre 35 – 39 London Street, Reading, RG1 4PS
Cont: Bente Madeira on 0118 958 6692/bente@risc.org.uk
Free/donations welcome
SOROPTIMIST INTERNATIONAL
On 7th December Jackie Oversby spoke to the Soroptimist International Regional Meeting about our Carbon Capital campaign.
