World Development Movement campaigners stage an award ceremony outside Barclays Bank HQ in Canary Wharf handing over a ‘shame award’ won by the bank ahead of its AGM on 27 April.
The World Development Movement nominated Barclays for a Public Eye 'shame' Award for it's role in food speculation. WDM campaigner Amy Horton travelled to Davos to pick it up on 27 January 2012.
On 3 December, the climate justice global day of action, WDM helped organise a climate justice teach-in at the London St Pauls occupation. There were short talks on the UK's role in climate finance and the World Bank, an introduction ot climate justice, links between climate change and the occupy movement. The teach-in was followed by a 'walking tour of shame' as we highlighted climate criminals in the city. We then joined the Campaign Against Climate Change march to parliament.
WDM groups and local supporters have been collecting messages of 'no new climate debt' in the run up to the Durban UN climate talks and making paper chains that have been presented to their MPs.
Campaigners from the World Development Movement protest outside the Department of International Development against the UK's decision to give climate finance as loans rather than grants and through the World Bank rather than the UN.
EDINBURGH, UK - 19th April 2011: As bailed out bank RBS holds its AGM at its global headquarters in Edinburgh, human rights and environmental campaigners dressed as oil-addicted bankers drinking from oil cans, demanded an end to the bank's support for the fossil fuel industry...At the same time they were joined by several Canadian First Nations representatives who arrived to personally urge for RBS to cease financing tar sands companies extracting oil on their lands...Picture shows Canadian First Nations representatives from left Melinda Laboucan-Massimo , Jasmine Thomas and Clayton Thomas-Muller ..(Photograph: Richard Scott/MAVERICK)
Barclays Capital's role in food speculation is driving up global food prices and leaving millions facing hunger and malnutrition. Barclays is the UK’s biggest player in food speculation and helps other financial players bet on hunger too.
World Development Movement and Friends of the Earth stunt to demonstrate how the publicly owned Royal Bank of Scotland is addicted to dirty energy projects, including tar sands, which harm the world's poorest people and create environmental destruction. Caroline Griffin/WDM
WDM groups around the country taking action from 24 April to 1 May; protesting against RBS' investments in damaging tar sands projects, and the UK government's failure to intervene and direct the publicly owned bank to invest in sustainable, green projects
From the WTO meetings in Geneva to the UN Climate Summit in Copenhagen, the Trade to Climate Caravan is taking the social and climate justice message through Europe, direct to the policy makers.
The World Development Movement asked people attending the Put People First March what they would ask Barack Obama to do given the chance - here are their messages
James Hansen, who heads Nasa's noted Goddard Institute for Space Studies and is a science adviser to Al Gore, met local activists Andy Rogers and Luke Evans, both members of the local anti-Kingsnorth group called Kingsnorth Climate Action Medway (KCAM), in Maidstone.
climate change kills giant inflatable plane in Trafalgar Square, London. Calling on the UK government to include aviation in the climate bill www.wdm.org.uk/climate
Giant Gordon Brown and Hilary Benn heads having fun on Bournemouth Beach to highlight Climate Change and to call for a stronger climate change bill - see www.wdm.org.uk/climate for more info
Cambridge WDM meets on the third Wednesday of every month. For details and venues, contact Branch Secretary Aidan Baker on email baker.aidan5@gmail.com or on 01223 510392.
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