General news

SEAD is moving!

Posted by Jeni at 2.44pm on 10 May 2011

From the 16th May please change your contact details for us to…

SEAD (Scottish Education and Action for Development)
Norton Park
57 Albion Road
Edinburgh
EH7 5QY
t: ++44131 475 2612

All other details will stay the same

RBs back to black photo petition

Posted by Jeni at 4.55pm on 18 April 2011

Take action before the RBS AGM!

Join our photo petition today by sending a message to RBS to stop investing our money in companies extracting oil from tar sands.

Submit your photo to the RBS photo petition today in three easy steps:

  • 1. Write your message on paper, your body, your bank card…
  • 2. Take a photo of you and your message
  • 3. Email the photo to gone32hint@photos.flickr.com

And in 5 or so minutes your photo will appear below.

Please try to reduce the size on the picture to below 1Mb before you email it, there are many ways but an easy guide to doing this is here (for XP) or here (for Vista).

We will be bringing these photos to the RBS AGM so please send us your photo by 18 April 2011, the evening before the RBS AGM.

RBS : Back to Black

Posted by Jeni at 1.24pm on 12 April 2011

Vote NO to tar sands at the ‘People’s AGM’

Monday 18 April, 7-9pm, Edinburgh University

Indigenous people in Canada are fighting ‘the most destructive project on earth’ – the extraction of oil from tar sands and the building of a super-pipeline through their ancestral lands.  RBS is financing companies mining tar sands and planning the pipeline.

Hear powerful first-hand accounts of the destruction caused by tar sands extraction and the fight to stop the Enbridge pipeline, and help stop RBS making it worse with our money.

Read the rest of RBS : Back to Black …

Camp for Climate Action swoop in to Break the Banks!

Posted by Jeni at 2.27pm on 19 August 2010

The Camp for Climate Action is a grassroots movement taking direct action against the root causes of climate change, has today, started to swoop on Edinburgh.  This years target is the Royal Bank of Scotland head quarters at Gogar Station road. Read the rest of Camp for Climate Action swoop in to Break the Banks! …

Robin Hood Tax

Posted by Rhian at 8.29pm on 12 August 2010

SEAD has signed up to work in partnership with the Robin Hood Tax Campaign.

The Robin Hood Campaign proposes a tiny tax on banks, hedge funds and other finance institutions  that would raise billions to tackle poverty and climate change, at home and abroad.

Find out more about related Actions and Events at the Robin Hood Tax site.