May
2013
Follow-up – Get Informed & Active on Tax Justice & City Reform
Thanks to all of you who attended our successful screenings of We’re Not Broke and Secret City.
Please get in touch if you would like copies of the slideshows which accompanied this double-bill.
Get Further Informed and Active on Tax Justice and The City Reform
Get informed and active to reform the political powers of the City of London:
- Organise a community screening & discussion of Secret City
- Read “Griffin: The City of London Corporation” in Nicholas Shaxson’s acclaimed book “Treasure Islands”
- Join the Avaaz Campaign to kick the bankers out of parliament
- Support
- UK Uncut
- Occupy London –
- The City Reform Group
Keep informed on tax dodging and tax reform:
- Read Richard Murphy’s Tax Research UK blog. Twitter: @RichardJMurphy
- Read Nicholas Shaxson’s website and his acclaimed book Treasure Islands. Twitter: @nickshaxson
- Get a 15-minute monthly update of tax news on the Taxcast. Twitter: @Naomi_Fowler
- Join Ethical Consumer’s Boycott Amazon campaign
- Read about Ethical Consumers/38 Degrees Olympic Tax Victory. Twitter: @EthicalConsumer
- Read Taxhack on Tax & Transparency. Twitter: @taxhack
Get active on tax dodging and tax & finance reform:
- Organise a community screening & discussion of We’re Not Broke
- Sign any current 38 Degrees Tax Dodging petitions:
- Npower have dodged £60 million in tax over the last 4 years – 180K signatures so far – Sign Up now!
- Google paid £6m instead of approx £224 million! Nearly 50K signatures now – Sign Up now!
- Join the Tax Justice Network
- Like the Tax Justice Facebook page
- Support the IF Campaign (supported by 180 organisations including Oxfam, Christian Aid & Action Aid) raises the huge issue, of how greatly multinational tax avoidance in developing countries contributes to the hunger experienced by approx 875 million people
- Email David Cameron to ensure that the 4 Big IFs are discussed at the G8 meeting on 17/18 June 2013 in Northern Ireland
- Check out: Transforming Finance – a coalition project led by Friends of the Earth, which draws on the expertise and support of a broad alliance of think tanks and NGOs with an interest in making finance work for people and planet, including the New Economics Foundation, ShareAction (formerly Fair Pensions), Civitas, ResPublica, the World Development Movement, Positive Money and Finance Lab