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Taking local action against food speculation

Morten Thaysen

8 May 2013

If you walk down the high-street you will find them. Even though they are mostly associated with the City of London, they are present in towns and cities across the UK. Banks speculating on food are present from town centres to government corridors – and so we must be, if we want to challenge them.

Tanzanian activists call for non-payment of World Bank water debt

Tim Jones

30 April 2013

Campaigners in Tanzania have called on their government not to repay $61.5 million to the World Bank on loans for a water project which yielded ‘no positive results’.

We’ve come a long way…

Christine Haigh

29 April 2013

We look back over three years of our food speculation campaign, and explain where the European legislation is up to, and what's still to come.

Actually, Barclays, pension funds do speculate

Morten Thaysen

26 April 2013

Yesterday was the Barclays AGM in London. Together with two of my colleagues I went inside to ask the board of directors why they continue to help institutional investors to speculate on food, even though they are well aware that this pushes prices up and forces people into hunger.

Barclays AGM: photos and tweets

Glyn Thomas

25 April 2013

This morning, campaigners from WDM protested outside the Barclays AGM in London, as well asking some questions about Barclays' continued involvement in food speculation inside.

A special report from the Grim Reaper

Morten Thaysen

19 April 2013

Morten Thaysen gives a special report from inside the Grim Reaper costume outside the Anglo-American AGM in London

From riches to rags

Christine Haigh

17 April 2013

Earlier this week, the price of gold dropped 15 per cent in just two days, the biggest fall in 30 years. And it looks like speculators are to blame.

Food for people not for profit - International peasant struggle day

Dan Iles

16 April 2013

Tomorrow, 17 April, is international peasant struggle day. Dan Iles explains why food sovereignty is vitally important as an alternative to food security

A normal Thursday morning - with John Kerry

Kirsty Wright

12 April 2013

Yesterday morning in central London was a morning like any other. It was a morning of world leaders and business executives developing new ways of destroying our planet for profit. But it was also a morning of an increasingly global protest against greed and environmental destruction.

Don’t cry over spilled Nutella – Cry over hunger!

Morten Thaysen

11 April 2013

Today’s Guardian website features an article about “food crime” mentioning thieves who stole five tonnes of Nutella in Germany as a key example. But at the same time, food prices remain at close to record levels as bankers speculate on food, resulting in falling living standards in the UK and in hunger elsewhere. It makes you wonder: What is the real food crime here? Depriving a few people of Nutella or forcing millions into starvation?

Activist calls on us to protest Anglo American’s Colombian mine

Nikki Ray

5 April 2013

WDM will be joining campaigners from London Mining Network and others outside Anglo American’s AGM at 1pm Friday 19 April 2013 to protest the company's Cerrejón coal mine.

Sarah Berger

Eddy Richardson

5 April 2013

A tribute to Sarah Berger, a dedicated WDM campaigner and member of the Brighton and Hove WDM group, who passed away recently following a long battle with cancer.

Local papers highlight food speculation

Morten Thaysen

5 April 2013

During the last couple of weeks WDM supporters from all over the country have written to their local newspapers as part of the Bankers Anonymous campaign.