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The Big Banana Tour

The Make Bananas Fair campaign has gone on to the next stage which involves emailing Tesco and ASDA to demand that they sell only Fairtrade bananas. Please could everyone carry out the e-action by clicking here York FT Forum are hoping to be part of the BIG BANANA TOUR and have a photoshoot here in York with…

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York Against the War and Quakers in York: INVITATION TO A SERIES OF PEACE TALKS on THURSDAYS

Invitation to a series of Peace Talks Thursdays in Autumn 2014 –  Quaker Meeting House, Friargate, York, YO1 9RL    7.30 – 9.00pm          ————————————————————————————————————– Thu 2nd Oct: Love the soldier – hate the war                       Exploring the militarisation of society       David Gee,   co-founder of ForcesWatch and former Director of Alternatives to Violence…

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A Real Chance for Change

  Imagine there’s a tax on banks – its easy if you try …     Just imagine that after tax payers bailed the banks out, the banks felt they could bear to pay less than 0.5% on each financial transaction. And that this tiny tax could raise several billion pounds. And that most of…

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Celebrate Mandela

Invite to celebrate Mandela’s life : We remember only too well the anti-apartheid struggle and the inspiration of Nelson Mandela and his colleagues so we have decided to arrange an evening for people to come together and share our thoughts, memories, stories, music – and to simply be together at this momentous time.  WHERE: Sunday Dec 15th, 7-9pm,…

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STOP THE SUGAR RUSH Sugar inspectors have been outside the headquarters of Coca Cola, PepsiCo and Associated British Foods this morning to ask the companies to change their policies. This is to make sure the sugar they buy and produce is grown on land which hasn’t been taken from farmers and their families, leaving them…

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YORK HUMAN RIGHTS FILM FESTIVAL

  Saturday 22nd June – Sunday 23rd June, 2013 This year York will celebrate Refugee Week with a festival of films exploring human rights issues from many angles with a wide variety of films from international documentaries to films made by students from local schools. It will take place at different venues, with all day…

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Reading Rights in York

Another nugget of delight for frustrated inner-activists  in York this summer is Reading Rights. This is part of the York Human Rights City project which has been progressing and developing throughout the past year with a variety of events, including conferences, festivals and fairs. Starting on 10th June (this Monday) Reading Rights will be focusing…

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York Mosque and Hash-tags – a Beginners’ Guide to Twitter

From Tim Phillips (York Amnesty)     “Facebook” may be the most widely known on-line social media but it is by no means the only one; another is “Twitter” – a social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read text-based messages of up to 140 characters, known as “tweets”. Twitter is reported to…