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WDM blog

Blog posts are articles presented in a journal format in a more casual style to our normal news and press releases.

When attending international meetings, or for special large scale events, WDM campaigners produce blog posts which can be rapidly updated with pictures and video. 

You can also follow our campaigners on twitter for instant updates from wherever they are.

2 February 2012

Miriam Ross, media officer

The news that the Indian government might choose to buy French fighter jets instead of British Typhoon jets should have nothing to do with the UK’s development aid. But thanks to comments from development minister Andrew Mitchell, aid has become entangled in the media story about the arms trade.

31 January 2012

James Angel, campaigns and policy intern

Remember 2008? After decades of unchecked greed and corruption, the neoliberal house of cards finally toppled over, leaving us with the worst economic crisis since the great depression. The big banks have been gambling with our money for years but, as we all know, the costs of the crisis – the unemployment, the lost homes, the austerity measures – have been borne by us. 

31 January 2012

Pontus Westerberg, web officer

I'm pleased to announce that award-winning cartoonist Ben Jennings will be drawing regular cartoons for WDM. Here is his first one. 

30 January 2012

Amy Horton, Food campaigner

Soon after it got light on Saturday morning, I set off from a tiny chalet, lugging my bags through a blizzard down a snowy track impassable to cars. The bags were heavier than when I’d arrived, because I was carrying an award. The previous day, Barclays – the UK’s biggest food speculator – had declined to show up to the Public Eye Awards to collect its prize for being the world’s worst corporation. Following WDM’s nomination, Barclays was selected by a jury, while the ‘winner’ of a second prize decided by over 90,000 voters was mining giant Vale.

27 January 2012

Pontus Westerberg, web officer

Yesterday David Cameron took the stage in Davos yesterday to push his outdated agenda of deregulation, liberalisation and slashing of workers right as the solution to the world’s problems, to the applause of the gathered representatives of the world’s 1 per cent. Meanwhile, the Transnational Institute published a set of infographics that tell a completely different story. 

25 January 2012

Kirsty Wright, climate campaigner

The Durban UN climate talks saw a repetition of the pattern of injustice and inaction of previous climate talks, with rich countries protecting their own interests and those of multinational industries over those of people.

24 January 2012

Liz Murray, head of Scottish campaigns

Alex Salmond has called for 2012 to be the "year of climate justice", but Scottish Ministers are already going against that by not funding their own plans and policies to cut climate emissions in Scotland.

23 January 2012

Liz Murray, head of Scottish campaigns

It’s heartening to hear that President Obama has stood up to Big Oil by rejecting the permit for the Keystone XL tar sands oil pipeline sought by Canadian oil firm TransCanada. But the global campaign to stop the tar sands must continue.

19 January 2012

Innocent Sithole, Web intern

One of the most encouraging aspects of our campaign against food speculation is that our arsenal of research-based evidence proving the connection between unbridled financial speculation and rising food prices continues to grow. Following our exposé of Barclays Bank’s harvest of super profits from betting on food last year, we’ve gone further to pull the fig leaf off some of Europe’s biggest food gamblers with a new report released jointly with Friends of the Earth Europe.

19 January 2012

Kirsty Wright and Sarah Reader, climate campaigners

For the past two years WDM along with the Jubilee Debt Campaign have been campaigning for the UK government to deliver its climate finance to help countries cope with climate change as grants through the UN Adaptation Fund rather than loans through the World Bank (see the bottom of this page for a slideshow of our campaigning).

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