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Events and outreach internship

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Join WDM's networks team and help support our local groups, organise events and other outreach opportunities. This is a great chance to get involved with an organisation that challenges the root causes of poverty and to gain skills in supporting a network of groups and activists.

UK aid to Morocco will fund electricity for Europe

The Moroccan government is expected to award a contract in the coming weeks for the building of a massive solar power plant in Morocco, using UK aid money to produce electricity for Europe.

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.

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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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