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Aid: investment or moral obligation?

Deborah Doane, director

Last week’s Queen’s Speech saw a glaring omission – the failure to include a key coalition promise to enshrine into law the commitment to spend 0.7 per cent of our gross national income on development aid. 

Ben Jennings takes our evil Barclays eagle to another level

Pontus Westerberg, web officer

At the recent Barclays AGM, World Development Movement campaigners dressed up as evil Barclays eagles to highlight the bank's role in speculating on food prices. This inspired our favourite cartoonist, Ben Jennings, to take the eagle to new heights. 

Interview: learning from history

Jane Herbstritt, Scottish campaigns assistant

Author Tim Gee will be speaking at our Scottish campaigner convention on the 19th May. Here he talks to WDM Scotland about his new book on the history of social movements across the globe - Counterpower: Making Change Happen - and how history has shaped his own global justice campaigning.

Relearning the alphabet for WDM

Lucy Hurn, south west London group

Last week Lucy from our south west London group kicked off her fundraising challenge with a difference: doing the alphabet the hard way. Here she explains.

I blame the WDM London groups Christmas social! For some reason, no doubt spurred on by beer, a few of us started talking about doing the Berlin marathon. Having found that was already booked up, our plan changed to Amsterdam. Which begins with an ‘A’. And that’s where it all started…

Progressive responses to European austerity

James O’Nions reports from the EU in Crisis conference in Brussels

Among the many participants at Corporate Europe Observatory’s EU in Crisis conference this weekend were a host of WDM allies – people we’ve campaigned with against water privatisation, on climate justice and on debt cancellation. This time they were coming together with other organisation and movement representatives to debate the Eurozone crisis and organise against the dead hand of austerity and corporate capture which is gripping the continent.

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Events

Dancing to a different beat: campaigns, stories and songs of resistance for the 99%

19 May, Edinburgh

WDM's annual Scottish campaigner convention takes place on the first day of the G8/NATO summit in the US

Film showing: Four Horsemen

19 May, Edinburgh Filmhouse

Highly topical documentary showing in partnership with Take One Action after WDM Scotland's campaigner convention.

Film night: An economy for the 99%

22 May, Clapham, London
Join South-West London WDM for a thought-provoking and inspiring evening of films exploring the damage caused by banks and financial institutions and their impact on the poorest people around the world.

Launch of Bromley WDM: film night and discussion

On Wednesday 30 May we will be launching a new World Development Movement group in Bromley with an evening of short films and discussion.

The People versus the Banks

Saturday 23 June, London
WDM's activist conference with workshops and keynote speech from Aditya Chakrabortty, economics lead writer at the Guardian.

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