We’ve got a new on-line action on supermarkets that it would be great if you could take.

It’s telling MPs that introducing a supermarket watchdog (or ‘Groceries Code Adjudicator’) is urgent – and asking them to push Vince Cable to make sure the next Queen’s Speech includes a Bill to set one up.

Full details here.

Crucial to winning this campaign, even more so than usual, will be showing the Government the strength of public feeling behind it. All the main parties, and the Coalition, are signed up to this in principle – they’re just not getting on with it.

Once you’ve taken the action, it would therefore be great if you could tweet it, share it on facebook and/or forward on this email to your contacts, friends and family.

Thank you so much!

You can see the video herehttp://nyelenieurope.net/foodsovcap/video-the-missing-option

The same webpage, linked to the Nyeleni Europe website has info about the work towards CAP reform over the coming yearhttp://nyelenieurope.net/foodsovcap/

Friends of the Earth are running a comedy benefit gig at the Hammersmith Apollo on Friday 18 November. Big names confirmed so far include Dan Antopolski, Simon Day, Justin Edwards as Jeremy Lion,  Richard Herring, Josie Long, Francesca Martinez, Lucy Porter and Rob Rouse, with music from special guest Badly Drawn Boy. A number of us are thinking of going as a group – if you are interested, please contact Fiona (stalls@oxfoe.co.uk).

and before that there is a food campaign event in Trafalgar Square:

FoE are supporting an event in London on 18 November called Feeding the 5000, from 12 noon to 2.00pm in Trafalgar Square. It involves a free lunch made entirely from fresh ingredients that would otherwise go to waste.

The highlight for me was the talk by Benny Wenda of the Free West Papua Campaign.  It brought home to me how important the work we do on preserving forests throughout the world is.  Have a look at Benny’s website.

Thanks to Tim and his nephew, Ben, we raised some money for our campaigns in the winter.  We are keen to get new members to help us to campaign, so please come along to our meetings and find out what’s going on.  We are running campaigns on Food and Energy at the moment, plus a local transport campaign.

On Saturday, we will be building a Totem Pole at the West Oxford Fun Day, so please bring you children and friends to help us.  We will be doing this with the help of the folk at Orinoco.

Just to prove I know how to put pictures on this blog, here is a picture of our stall at Headington Festival – and a picture of our pledge tree at the Playhouse on Friday, 8 July.