World Development Movement blog

The Oxford WDM group held a talk on the many dimensions of poverty with Sabina Alkire, director of the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI). Here is an account of the event by Kate Griffin from the Oxford group.

On 8 November the Milton Keynes WDM group took part in a panel discussion and ran a workshop at the Global Development Conference: The Millennium Development Goals - 'Are we nearly there yet?'. Read Pauline's account of what it was like to take part, and whether it was worth doing.

Jubilee Debt Campaign along with other organisations including War on Want and the Trade Justice Movement has launched a new reading group Econo...what? for the age of austerity.

I’ve taken part in and supported social justice and environmental campaigns intermittently since earliest University, and their issues have been the subject of many a blogpost.  That said, I don’t consider myself an experienced campaigner.

Last Saturday, over 100,000 people marched through the streets of London for the TUC march: A future that works. They were calling for an end to the austerity that is being forced upon this country by the ConDem government. WDM staff and group members were there to show our opposition to cuts which see the most hard-up in our society pay the price for a banking collapse for which they are not blame.

Yesterday four of us at the World Development Movement went to Westminster, to ask the Treasury for jobs. Unfortunately for gossip fans, this wasn’t a scandalous defection from our office on Offley Road, London in protest at the underuse of the office wormery for our compost, or in outrage at the lack of solar panels on our roof. Instead the queue asking for jobs outside the Treasury was of a coalition of 250 supporters from groups as wide-ranging as the Women’s Institute, UK Youth Climate Coalition, Quakers, Population Matters and the RSPB.