The stars of BBC 3s The Revolution Will Be Televised are teaming up with World Development Movement to launch a new film today parodying Barclays role in speculating on food prices.

This hilarious spoof is meant to draw attention to the fact that Barclays is making profits of £500 million whilst speculating on food prices. This speculation is driving up the price of food in poor countries and drastically exacerbating world hunger.

Check out the 3 minute film: here

Or here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=a7Np3XW6ezs

If you liked the film, please make sure to take action and send an email to George Osborne. Follow the link to see how.

We are trying to get as many people to watch and share this film as possible. If you could share this on facebook, twitter or email that would be fantastic.

Use the hashtags #Barclays and #foodspeculation if you can.

World Development Movement is an anti-poverty campaign organisation that fights against the policies that make poor countries poor. If you want to find out more about our organisation or sign up to our e- news please visit our website: www.wdm.org.uk

Best wishes,

Dan

Dan Iles

Food Campaigner

World Development Movement

020 7820 4900

The BBC are compiling a list of the 100 most powerful women in the UK. Who are the movers and shakers who shape the way we live today? Which women have the greatest impact on British politics, society, culture and the economy?

Tell them who you’d like to see on the Woman’s Hour Power List. Find out more here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/features/womans-hour/power-list/

Vote for Caroline Lucas (MP), Natalie Bennett (Leader) and Jean Lambert (MEP) on BBC Radio 4 Womans hour please. VOTE! VOTE! VOTE!

On1st December – organised by our friends at the Campaign Against Climate Change.

Hopefully we can get a good size delegation from South Wales together!

12 noon Assemble at Grosvenor Square
(or Parliament if Romney wins the US election – see below)

1.00-1.30: Building pipeline, speakers on tar sands and the US
1.30-3.30: March to parliament
3.30-4.30: Building fracking rig, speeches
After-party from 5.00 PM venue tba

Saturday 1st December – midway through the Qatar Climate Talks – COP 18

FULL DETAILS: http://www.campaigncc.org/getfracktious

An e-card to send around to your friends and contacts is here.

Today, the international white poppy project asks us to remember all the victims of war; the innocent civilans, of all ages, as well as the servicemen.

Andy Chyba has a small supply of the PPU white poppies available, or you can order some here, to share with like minded people: http://www.ppu.org.uk/ppushop/

Verse and Vine (November 2nd at The Green Room [above SUSSED])

Wed, October 24, 2012 at 1:54 PM

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There are plans to make this a fairly regular production (quarterly perhaps), if we can keep funding it, but this first edition could well become a collectors item.

You can see an online version here: http://www.thegreenleft.org/publications.html

It may surprise you to hear that I had very little to with the anti-fracking piece on this occasion, but I have a half page piece offering some financial advice on pg. 9 (which may amuse some of you).

I have a very limited supply of the printed version which I will make available on a first come, first served basis to those that come to the meeting on Thursday (see notice below), so long as you promise to encourage as many people as possible to read it!

Andy.

ALL WELCOME (Especially new members!)

AGENDA:

1. Welcome and Introductions
2. Apologies for Absence
3. Minutes and matters arising
4. Officers’ reports
5. Councillor feedback
6. Campaigns update – Fracking / 20’s Plenty
7. Wales Green Party AGM
8. Developments in Swansea GP
9. AOB
10. DoNM

NOTE – Venue is 1 minute’s walk from both the Bus and Train stations in Bridgend.

REMINDER – If anyone needs a lift to any of our meetings, let Andy know and we will organise it for you.

The government intends to abolish Disability Living Allowance and replace it with Personal Independence Payments. We feel the government is doing this because it is clear by awarding the contract to assess Personal Independence Payments to ATOS, it is a means to make savage cuts welfare to the most vulnerable in society. We believe peoples lives will be lost as a result of the scrapping of DLA for Personal Independence Payments assessed by ATOS.

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Closing:
05/09/2013 14:42