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The Heretic's Guide to Global Finance

When: Saturday 26 October, 2pm – 4.30pm.

Where: St Columba’s-by-the-Castle, 4 Johnston Terrace, Edinburgh EH1 2PW

Unravel the financial jargon and get to grips with how global finance works and what we can do to make it work for the common good.This free workshop is led by Brett Scott, ex-financial broker and author of ‘The heretic’s guide to global finance: hacking the future of money.’

The workshop is part of the Edinburgh World Justice Festival, and will follow our final 'Scandalous Edinburgh plc walking tour'.

It is jointly hosted by the World Development Movement, People and Planet, and Jubilee Scotland.

This is a free event but please book by clicking on this link

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2013

Two years of concerted campaigning by WDM results in Barclays, the UK's biggest player in food speculation and one of the top three globally, announcing that it will no longer trade in food for speculative purposes.

2012

Following a prolonged campaign by a coalition of Scottish NGOs and local pressure groups including WDM Scotland, plans for a new coal-fired power station in Hunterston, North Ayrshire are shelved.

2011

After concerted lobbying by WDM supporters, French oil company Total postpones plans to mine tar sands deposits in one of the poorest regions of Madagascar.

2011

The UK government puts £10 million of its climate finance towards the UN Adaptation Fund, and agrees to give the majority of its funds to the World Bank's climate adaptation fund as grants rather than loans.