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30 November 2011 - Solidarity gone global!
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01 December 2011
War on Want visited picket lines in London, providing striking public sector workers with food and hot drinks.
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Food Sovereignty Day - reclaiming our food system
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20 October 2011
The Food Sovereignty Day held last Tuesday 18 October at the Houses of Parliament was a great success! The Day was organised by War on Want to build the food sovereignty movement in the UK and regain control over our food. War on Want's latest report on Food Sovereignty was also launched.
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War on Want celebrates its 60th Anniversary at the TUC
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13 September 2011
War on Want President, Rodney Bickerstaffe invited trade union leaders, MPs, activists as well as current and former members of staff to celebrate our 60th Anniversary on 13 September.
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The Fight for a Living Wage!
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12 September 2011
War on Want held two days of debate, analysis and group discussions on living wage campaigns across different sectors and countries.
Experts from the South and the North spoke about the challenges of understanding and calculating a living wage.
It was a great chance to learn about effective strategies for campaigning for a living wage from other sectors and applying these strategies to build a powerful campaign for a living wage in the cut-flower sector.
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War on Want at Tolpuddle 2011
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16 July 2011
War on Want joined thousands of trade unionists on Sunday 17 July at a festival that is growing in numbers every year. This year, there seemed to be a real sense that we are all in this together, but not in the way that George Osborne means. We mean that as the cuts start to bite, ordinary working people are expressing solidarity with ordinary working people here in the UK, but also across the developing world.
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War on Want celebrates 60 years
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17 June 2011
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We recently marked our 60th anniversary at the House of Lords, and were honoured to be joined by just a few of the people that have played a critical role in War on Want’s evolution over the last 60 years. |
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Fuel on the Fire
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22 May 2011
A gripping new book by War on Want’s Campaigns and Policy Director Greg Muttitt takes us behind the scenes of the occupation of Iraq to answer one of the war’s most pressing questions: what happened to Iraq’s oil?
Drawing on hundreds of unreleased government documents and extensive interviews with senior American, British and Iraqi officials and oilmen, Fuel on the Fire reveals how the occupying powers sought to sell Iraq’s oil industry to multinational companies. But it also tells the inspiring story of how Iraqi civil society groups campaigned to thwart their plans - with surprising success.
Fuel on the Fire is vital to our understanding of the war in Iraq and its consequences.
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Thousands of you say YES to the immediate withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan
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13 April 2011
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We delivered a resounding YES to Foreign Secretary William Hague and gave him a copy of our Afghanistan report |
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Posters against sweatshop poverty!
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08 April 2011
A big thank you to everyone who participated in War on Want's Love Fashion Hate Sweatshops workshop yesterday.
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Comedy Gig 2011 gallery
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04 April 2011
War on Want's Comedy Gig was hugely successful, packing in nine hilarious acts over three hours. A massive thank you to all the comedians who put on such an amazing show, and a really big thank you to everyone who bought tickets and made the evening such a success.
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March for the Alternative
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26 March 2011
War on Want members and supporters joined the 500,000 other demonstrators on the March for the Alternative called by the TUC on 26 March 2011.
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War on Want and PCS call on government to close the tax gap!
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23 March 2011
War on Want and the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) today held a protest outside parliament against George Osbourne’s latest budget, which avoided the issue of tax dodging and puts the squeeze further on working people and public services.
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The Robin Hood Tax - targetting the banks
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16 February 2011
Ahead of the Europe-wide day of action for a Financial Transaction Tax on 17 February, War on Want took to the streets with other groups, calling for a Robin Hood Tax on currency transactions.
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Osborne wins jammy dodger tax award
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31 January 2011
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War on Want together with activists from trade union PCS and UK Uncut today awarded Tory Chancellor George Osborne a giant Jammy Dodger for coming top in the national Tax Shirker poll. |
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Tax not cuts demo
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17 December 2010
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War on Want demonstrated today outside HMRC with Jubilee Debt Campaign and the union PCS for a fair tax system and against cuts as part of our tax justice campaign. |
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Swap Party 2010 - Thank you Brighton!
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12 December 2010
Big thanks to everyone involved in Swap Party 2010
Swap Party 2010 was organised by Maia Mounsher from the Sussex Uni War on Want society and raised an amazing £742.80 for War on Want.
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Romanian seminar on Decent Work: The next steps and new context for development
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16 November 2010
Decent Work is seen by the UN and the EU as essential for lifting the many poor in the developing world out of poverty, and in 2008 was added as a specific target under the UN Millennium Development Goals to eliminate global poverty. Decent Work includes providing meaningful work with a living wage, respect for labour rights and social protections for workers when they cannot work.
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War on Want tells BT: Hang up on the Occupation!
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11 November 2010
War on Want campaigners descended on BT HQ in central London on 11 November 2010 to protest against BT's complicity in Israel's crimes against the Palestinian people.
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Banking on Bloodshed themed Halloween
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31 October 2010
Halloween - a great occassion to raise awareness about the role of banks in fuelling conflict!
That is just what Maia Mounsher and Co did at Komedia in Brighton.
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War on Want joins demonstration against the cuts
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21 October 2010
As the chancellor made his announcement on the budget cuts, War on Want joined thousand of people at a Fight the Cuts demonstration outside Downing Street. The demonstration, called by the Coalition of Resistance, featured a range of speakers, including the Rev Jesse Jackson, Caroline Lucas MP and PCS General Secretary Mark Serwotka. War on Want had a large presense at the demo including our very own George
'Scissorhands' Osborne.
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