In just a few hours at Festival Sunday in the West End of Glasgow, 161 people signed a campaign card telling the Secretary of State for International Development that they don’t agree with locking the world’s poorest people into more unjust debt.

Time to listen up, Mr. Mitchell – the Daily Mail might be ranting about the ‘shame’ of the UK giving aid to poorer countries, but the Glasgow public think it’s only right that we should give grants to tackle the effects of climate change.

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

Just in case you were in any doubt about the validity of the science behind climate change, we recently observed concrete (or rather sponge) evidence at our climate cafe hustings.

Oh, and we talked to some politicians too, whilst we were eating the world. They all seemed committed to tackling climate change here in Scotland. We’ll see what the public make of their promises on 5th May…and then it’s up to us to hold them to account once they’re in Holyrood.

It’s funny how often people agree with you when you suggest that bankers aren’t perfect. Now all we need to do is keep the pressure on the politicians to understand this basic point…

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

Dressing up as a Barclays banker in Argyle St certainly attracts some attention – from shoppers and the press… Let’s just hope the politicians take some notice too.

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

If you hadn’t noticed, there’s the wee matter of an election coming up…

…so it’s a good time to talk to the politicians and make sure they know what’s important. Come along to our Climate Hustings and you can speak to them face to face over a cup of tea. No long speeches, no posturing, just debate, discussion and free biscuits.

Thursday 21st April, Adelaide’s Bath Street (just up the hill from the Kings Theatre)