In this UK premiere, journey from your favourite restaurant to Kenya via the Amazon and Philippines to discover the social and environmental cost of the global food industry. Native tribes look on as huge tracts of rainforest are burned to grow soya. The livelihoods of local fishermen in Asia and subsistence farmers in Kenya are threatened as multinationals draw away their water supplies. Just who is paying for the food we love?

GFT, Saturday 1st October, 5:45pm

Followed by a discussion with leading food journalists and campaigners.

Takuu, a unique, centuries old island community in the Pacific Ocean, is going under water. This beautiful film gently explores the local response to this devastating news. One by one, families must choose between resettling to an alien mainland hundreds of kilometres away or staying to defend their culture, and watch their paradise disintegrate.

GFT, Saturday 24th September, 4pm

Followed by a discussion with leading international climate change campaigners.

Another chance to see Iciar Bollain’s superb film about the Cochabamba revolution, when mass protests overturned the privatisation of the state water company.  A timely reminder that multinational corporations would merrily privatise anything, even the rain, if they could make a profit from it.

GFT, Thursday 22nd September, 6pm

Followed by a Q&A with screenwriter Paul Laverty.

The next crucial stage in the battle to regulate speculation in food commodities and stop the bankers gambling on hunger will take place in Europe. In October, the EU will propose new rules on commodity speculation, so we need to make sure that our MEP’s are aware of the issues. WDM Scotland has invited them all to:

Regulation, Speculation and World Food Prices

Friday 16 Sept, 10:30-12:30, European Parliament Information Office, The Tun, Edinburgh EH8 8PJ

All the parties are sending someone, so why not come along and make sure they realise how important this is – European regulation has never been so interesting!

See http://www.wdm.org.uk/events/regulation-speculation-and-world-food-prices for more info…

We’ll be in the centre of Glasgow with info about our campaign on food commodity speculation.

No, it’s not an advert for Nike – it’s a film about environmental direct action

5pm, Sunday 14th August, GFT

A year in the life of people who stand up (or sit down…or climb…or whatever…) for what they believe in.

Come and see us at the West End Festival, rescue a polar bear, win a prize…oh and take action on climate change whilst you’re at it…

Sunday 5th June, 12-6pm, Kelvin Way

Everyone’s a winner!

Using tax-payers money, RBS is helping to finance the ridiculously polluting, carbon-intensive extraction of tar sands. Thousands of lives and livelihoods are under threat from French oil giant Total’s plans to mine tar sands in Melaky, one of the poorest regions in Madagascar.

Come and hear Holly Rakotondralambo, toxic pollution & health researcher for VOARISOA Observatoire Madagascar, speak about the threats to the people and biodiversity of Madagascar from the tar sands industry.

Public talk. Boyd Orr Building, University of Glasgow, 6-8pm, 23 May, free entry

BOOK online at http://bit.ly/dN5mlP

It’s that time of year again – the RBS AGM is just around the corner, so we thought we’d let them know what we think. Despite £45.5 billion of public funding, RBS is still massively supporting investments in fossil fuels, including climate-trashing tar sands in Madagascar and Canada. Come and join us in the centre of Glasgow and let them know it’s not OK to carry on as the Royal Bank of Shame.

Saturday 16th April, 11am

Outside RBS Sauchiehall Street (corner of West Nile Street)

We’ll be asking people to join our photo petition so that we can send a whole wall of objections to the RBS AGM next week

It’s estimated that Barclays could be making as much as £340m a year from speculating in food commodities. This kind of gambling on hunger is pushing up food prices around the world and pushing people in poorer countries towards starvation, purely for profit. We’ll be doing a wee stunt in the centre of Glasgow to highlight this issue with the media and the good people of Glasgow – come and join us if you want.

Outside Barclays on Argyle Street, 10:30am, Saturday 9th April

Don’t let the bankers grind people down!! For more info, see http://www.wdm.org.uk/food-speculation