Campaigning

Campaigning is a dangerous business

Submitted 10 years 8 months ago by Lizzie.
Anyone who has ever been on a SPEAK day of action will be familiar with the excitement of it all – The crowd raising their voices against injustice, an imaginative and colourful demonstration, and a procession to that most prominent site of UK politics, the Houses of Parliament, where a group of young and conscientious activists will lobby their MPs on issues of global poverty.
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Speak out for Libya

Submitted 10 years 9 months ago by Lizzie.
After decades of indifference, it seems strange that the West should now so suddenly develop a conscience concerning the welfare of Libyan civilians. Libyans have long suffered the tyranny of Gadaffi’s dictatorship, well-armed as it is by companies based in the ‘developed’ world. So why is it only now that those arms sales licenses have been cancelled?
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Students take action against the arms trade

Submitted 10 years 9 months ago by Lizzie.
This past month students have been making a stand against universities which profit from and invest in the arms trade.
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Make a peace dove tree

Submitted 10 years 10 months ago by Lizzie.
Holding a stall on campus, at your church or in your local community?
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Unfinished business

Submitted 11 years 2 months ago by Sarah.
We are calling for access to justice for victims of corporate abuse. Add your voice now!
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Welfare or warfare?

Submitted 11 years 3 months ago by Tom.
India is home to 25% of the worlds poor and yet the UK government is actively encouraging high arms spending.
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Trouble in paradise

Benny Wenda
Submitted 11 years 3 months ago by Tom.
The island of New Guinea, 250km north of Australia, comprises the independent state of Papua New Guinea on one half and West Papua on the other.
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Victims of corporate abuse

Submitted 11 years 3 months ago by Sarah.
Gertruida Baartman is a single mother of three from StellenBosch, South Africa. She works for a farm that supplies Tesco supermarkets in the UK, picking pesticide-treated pears, apples and apricots with her bare hands for 38 pence an hour, ten hours a day.
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