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A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of attending People & Planet's Summer Gathering. It's an annual week-long training event for student activists with a bunch of inspiring and empowering workshops, great vegan food (that's high praise coming from a meat-eater) and fantastic company. I'm gong to be helping out with P&P's Corporate Power campaign in the coming year, so it was great to see so much enthusiasm for challenging corporations' influence on education.
Anyway, whilst we were there, P&P (along with Platform and WDM) treated the world to an massively exciting announcement. They are actually attempting to sue the Treasury over the RBS bailout!People & Planet are also asking us to help put pressure on Alistair Darling to manage our investment ethically.
I'll keep you posted on this unprecedented legal challenge. Who knows, if it comes off, we could even remove RBS/NatWest from the Big 8.Pete
After an early summer lull in corporation-free activity, I'm pleased to say that the pledge is going strong again. The great news is that there are now 100 people who trying to live without the Big 8.
100 may not sound like a huge number, but for every person signs the pledge, dozens of others have looked at the website and read about the Big 8. So why haven't they all signed the pledge? It's not really surprising. People find it hard enough to boycott one corporation, so 8 at once seems like too great a leap. Nevertheless, the website has an effect on anyone who sees it by encourages them to question where the stuff they buy comes from and what happens to the profit.
So, thank you to everyone who has signed the pledge and an even bigger thank you to everyone who has told their friends about the website. Let's keep the momentum going!
Pete
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