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2^nd November 2005: Mass lobby of parliament. Cambridge WDM members joined thousands of other Trade Justice campaigners in the rain to lobby their MPs for more Trade Justice. Cambridge MP David Howarth gave us three quarters of an hour for discussion and debate in a Westminster committee room where he agreed with many of our demands. 5 October 2005: Fairtrade prize giving at Daily Bread. April 2005: Launch of Fairtrade guide to Cambridge (see Home page for details). 1 July 2005: Make Poverty History Day. Cambridge WDM joined forces in placing a white band round Great St Mary’s Church before meeting with local MP, David Howarth, to discuss world poverty, water privatization, and the drain of medical staff from developing countries Vote for Trade Justice, 26^thSeptember 2004. Cambridge WDM joined 6000 protestors outside the Labour Party Conference in Brighon calling on the government to sto0 imposing unfair trade rules on developing countries. World Water Day 22^nd March 2004: WDM presented MP Anne Campbell with a giant plug to register objections to water services being included in the remit of GATS. See picture here. This also appeared in the Cambridge ‘agenda’ magazine and the event was covered by Q103 news. Picture. 13 December 2003: “Christmas Contrasts” event outside Cambridge Guildhall 11:30am – 12:30pm drawing attention to huge imbalance between Christmas celebrations here in UK and poor countries around the world struggling to payback unfair debts and deal with unfair trade rules 22 October 2003 at CB1 Caf_ Mill Road The new Cambridge Forum invited WDM to speak on Fair Trade and what happens now after the breakdown of WTO Talks in Cancun. 21 October 2003 AFROBEAT LIVE IN CONCERT launched Cambridge WDM’s exhibition to mark One World Week on “Malawi’s Debt Problems” at Emmanuel United Reformed Church Trumpington Street Cambridge. 17 October 2003 Cambridge WDM welcomed MEP Eryl McNally and City Councillor Ruth Bagnall for a discussion on FAIR TRADE : WHAT NEXT AFTER CANCUN at Emmanuel United Reformed Church, Trumpington Street Cambridge. Eryl McNally was a delegate at WTO’s Talks in Cancun and reported what actually happened. 10 September 2003 A Vigil highlighting Trade Justice was held outside the Guildhall in the Market Square, one of many such vigils across the country. Jenny Dawkins from Christian Aid gave an interview on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire about the collapse of the WTO Talks at Cancun and the action was also listed on Ceefax News. 27-8 June 2003 24 Hour Trade Justice Lobby Marathon. A crowd of WDM supporters and others from our partner organisations met to lobby MP Anne Campbell as part of a national effort to demand real action on Trade Justice. We handed in over 400 signatures showing how strong feeling is locally that more should be done to make trade rules fair and reduce the Debt. The Lobby was followed the next day by action in Cambridge market Square with a weigh-in and an unfair tug of war between Multinational Fat Cats and Poor People from developing nations. A stall with Banner, information & a petition to sign attracted more signatures supporting trade justice. 9 June 2002 The Trade Justice Mass Lobby of Parliament including a meeting with the MP for Cambridge City, Anne Campbell, in the House of Commons to discuss Trade Justice and especially the General Agreement on Trade in Services or GATS. 16 March 2002_ Cambridge WDM held a stall for Fair Trade Fortnight inside the big Sainsbury’s Supermarket on Coldham’s Lane with leaflets, information and free give-aways to show people how good the quality of fair trade goods is now and where to find them. Many more stores have fair trade products on sale. 22 October 2001 Cambridge WDM held a Panel Discussion for One World Week at the Lauterpacht Research Centre for International Law in Cranmer Road. Entitled “One World: Whose Rules Rule?” it featured top speakers from differing points of view…………………… Malcolm MacKinnon of the DTI Nicholas Sinclair Brown of the Lauterpacht Centre Clare Joy of WDM HQ. 21 – 23 July 2001 Co-Chairs of Cambridge WDM, Aidan and Clare Baker, joined many others in Genoa for demonstrations at the G8 summit. 16 March 2001 Cambridge WDM joined the People & Planet Group for a Day of Action on GATS outside the Guildhall with the high drama of a Tug of War between Big Business and Poor People. More than 200 signatures on a petition against the present GATS rules were collected in the Market Square which were taken that day to the DTI offices in the Westbrook Centre, Cambridge. 10 March 2001 Cambridge WDM held a stall inside the big Sainsbury’s store of Coldhams Lane, giving away free Fairtrade bananas, courtesy of Sainsbury’s, plus the information leaflet “A Fairtrade Guide to Cambridgeshire” with its free sachet of Caf_ Direct, a fairly traded coffee. 11 – 22 October 2000 Cambridge WDM put on an exhibition in the Guildhall to launch the Cambridge Environmental Resources Centre opened by the Mayor, Councillor Evelyn Knowles. The exhibition highlighted Uganda and the Debt, showing what can be done if debt remission is granted. Uganda was the first country to get full remission of its debt and used this money to fund free universal primary education. As a result, the numbers of children in primary school more than doubled. 7 July 2000 Cambridge WDM held a Drop the Debt demonstration in the Market Square with a stall displaying 19 pairs of children’s shoes, representing the 19,000 children who die every day as a direct result of the Debt. 11 March 2000 Cambridge WDM hosted the “After Seattle” Training Day for WDM East Anglia with speakers Richard Howitt MEP,_ Diana Reyes of the Philippines and Adrian Ashton of Daily Bread Co-operative in Cambridge.