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Latest in our regular updates on TTIP including:

• what happened during the international day of action on TTIP last Saturday
• campaigning on CETA (Canada - EU trade deal)
• TTIP and climate change
• ...and the latest parliamentary and activist updates on TTIP and CETA

Welcome to the October issue of Think Global Extra, the bimonthly supplement to Think Global. Read it in conjunction with the last full Think Global from September.

The latest in our regular updates about TTIP for Scottish activists. Included this time is an update about the EU parliamentary vote, the UK's Early Day Motion about TTIP, the latest from the Scottish Parliament, plus upcoming events.

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Despite the UK’s long and unsuccessful experience with energy privatisation, our government continues to support it elsewhere – most recently in Nigeria. The UK continues to pour aid money into a privatisation programme that seems doomed to failure, neglecting policy options that could address Nigeria’s serious energy supply problems.

Here are some commonly asked questions about our campaign on energy privatisation.

The latest in our regular updates about TTIP for Scottish activists. Included this time is an update about the EU parliamentary vote, the UK's Early Day Motion about TTIP, the latest from the Scottish Parliament, plus upcoming events.

Through the G7’s New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition, known as the New Alliance, the Department for International Development (DfID) is using £600 million of aid to facilitate corporate investment in Africa’s food systems. In return for this aid, African countries have had to make changes in their land, seed and trade rules, handing control over to big business at the expense of small-scale farmers.

TTIP, the EU-US trade deal, could be the biggest threat to democracy of our generation. This is true both at national level, where government policy like increasing the minimum wage or freezing energy prices could be challenged in secret corporate tribunals, and at local level, where councils could be forced to favour big American corporations over local, sustainable businesses in their procurement. Councils could also be challenged for doing things like denying planning permission for fracking in their local area.

The bailouts which Greece was given have not benefited the people of Greece one bit. They have flowed into the European banks that recklessly lent the country money. Meanwhile, the financial speculators who created Greece’s woes are actually making large profits by gambling on this ongoing crisis.

We have joined a coalition of organisations in taking action against Greek debt and an end to the enforcing of austerity policies that are causing injustice and poverty in Europe and across the world.