30 Seconds to Save the World

Happy with Nick Griffin representing you?

Joe — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 09:18:51 +0000

Next week the world’s leaders will meet in Copenhagen to talk about climate change.

The fascist Nick Griffin is there in his capacity as MEP from the UK.

Hope Not Hate have written a letter to all of the representatives at Copenhagen denouncing Griffin and the BNP, and urging the need for a comprehensive deal. They want as many people as possible to sign it.

Click here: http://action.hopenothate.org.uk/copenhagen

Endangered plants: what would you save?

Joe — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 09:46:24 +0000

Without plants there could be no life on earth, and yet every day another four plant species face extinction.

Thanks to the Botanical Gardens at Kew’s Millennium Seed Bank Project and the ‘Adopt a Seed, Save a Species’ campaign there is something that you can do to ensure the survival of a plant species.

As well as adopting a seed, Kew are asking people to write what they are worried will be lost as a result of species becoming extinct, such as ‘a cure for cancer’ or ‘no more coffee’, take a picture and post to their Flickr group. Your images should start popping up on their site and elsewhere on the web.

Click here: http://www.kew.org/support-kew/adopt-a-seed/what-would-you-save/index.htm

Better wheelchair facilities for disabled kids

Joe — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 08:15:36 +0000

The ‘Don’t Push Me Around’ report, written by Whizz-Kidz, highlighted that over 70,000 children need a wheelchair, and that some families are forced to wait over a year or are simply unable to access the mobility equipment they need on the NHS.

They want you to write to your MP using a tool on their website to ask for the improved provision within your area.

Click here: http://www.whizz-kidz.org.uk/getinvolved/campaigning/joinourcampaign/

Poor choice: stop cuts to poorest tenants

Joe — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 07:46:45 +0000

Under a planned Government cut, tenants on low incomes would lose up to £15 a week – for some this will be 20% of their weekly budget. Crisis is worried this could lead to increases in debt, rent arrears and, in the worst cases, homelessness.

Crisis want you to take action to support their Poor Choice campaign via their website by asking your MP to oppose the cuts.

Click here: http://e-activist.com/ea-campaign/clientcampaign.do?ea.client.id=47&ea.campaign.id=5078

Support the poorest families in the UK

Joe — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 09:36:03 +0000

A year-long study into child poverty has found that families have been plunged into worrying levels of debt by loan companies that prey on the poor.

Barnardo’s wants to make sure the poorest families in the UK do not get forgotten and is calling for better, fairer, safer ways to help them cope with debt.

The charity want you to email your local newspaper to publicly call for MPs not to forget the poorest families over their summer holidays. You can do so via their site.

Click here: http://e-activist.com/ea-campaign/clientcampaign.do?ea.client.id=108&ea.campaign.id=3988

Employers’ pledge on arthritis

Joe — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 08:00:48 +0000

Arthritis is the leading cause of physical disability in the UK, affecting people of all ages. There are nine million people in the UK with arthritis – around one in six people – and a large proportion are of working age.

Arthritis Care are asking employers to sign a pledge via their website to help make a positive difference to the lives of people with arthritis at work.

If you’re an employer, why not sign up? If you’re not, why not suggest it to your manager?

Click here: http://www.arthritiscare.org.uk/Campaigns/Currentcampaigns/TheEmployersPledge/EmployersSignthePledge

No slavery, no exceptions

Joe — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 08:00:49 +0000

Anti-slavery International, the world’s oldest human rights charity, want people to support their ‘No slavery, no exceptions’ campaign.

Over 2,000 people have signed their pledge so far, which calls on all governments and international organisations to commit to eradicating all forms of slavery by 2015 and to put in place and fully implement national and regional action plans to achieve this.

Click here http://www.antislavery.org/english/campaigns/no_slavery_no_exceptions/sign_the_pledge.aspx

Down, but not out: helping older people with depression

Joe — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 08:00:13 +0000

Depression is the most common mental health problem in later life.

Of the third of older people with depression who discuss it with their GP‚ only half are diagnosed and receive treatment.

This means that only about 15 per cent of all older people with clinical depression receive treatment. 850‚000 out of 1 million people don’t.

Age Concern are asking for people to contact their local Primary Care Trust via their website to implement a three point programme: encouraging older people with depression to seek help, ensuring older people with depression are correctly diagnosed and helping older people with depression get the treatment they need.

Click here: http://e-activist.com/ea-campaign/clientcampaign.do?ea.client.id=31&ea.campaign.id=4800

Who pays? Help ensure supermarkets treat women right

Joe — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:00:12 +0000

Every week 32 million of us shop in British supermarkets. But as supermarkets continue to push for lower prices and higher profits, the workers at the bottom – often disenfranchised women – pay the price. They end up poorly paid and easily exploited .

ActionAid UK are asking people to sign a petition to Lord Mandelson to create a ‘supermarket watchdog’ to help make sure millions of women workers around the world get a fairer deal.

Eight out of ten shoppers want a watchdog, and the Competition Commission has recommended it is introduced.

Click here: http://www.actionaid.org.uk/index.asp?page_id=101957

Stand up for Tiny Lives: saving premature babies

Joe — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 08:00:26 +0000

Each year in the UK around 50,000 babies are born too early. Action Medical Research want us to understand why so we can save some of these young lives.

They are asking the government to fund a National Research Strategy to support doctors and scientists as they look for answers.

You can support their campaign by leaving a hand or footprint on their campaign wall, emailing your MP with a pre-written (editable) text and telling your friends, all via their website.

Click here.