Category: Power
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The Power of We – Stopping Land Grabs
Today is Blog Action Day and this year’s theme is ‘The Power of We’. It’s a perfect opportunity to celebrate the power of people in making change happen. We’ve seen people power in many guises over the last year, from large scale movements like the Arab Spring and Occupy, to people making a stand on
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New Shadow Secretary sets up local international development group
The new Shadow International Development Secretary, Harriet Harman, has established an international development advisory panel in her constituency, Camberwell and Peckham. The new panel, which will be hosted using virtual groups will have regular contact with and will meet regularly at Southwark Town Hall in Peckham. Speaking about the panel and her new brief, Harriet
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Congratulations to Ed Miliband
LCID congratulates Ed Miliband MP on becoming the new leader of the Labour Party. We look forward to working with the former Secretary of State for Energy & Climate Change to ensure global poverty stays high on the parties agenda in the coming years. During the Leadership campaign we asked Ed about his views on
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Thank you for voting in our poll
Thank you to everyone who voted in the LCID poll to decide what we will be asking the Labour Leadership candidates in our video hustings. The results are in and you can view them here. What happens next? We’ll be asking the leadership candidates about their views on the topics you have chosen and what
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Labour’s Manifesto on International Development
Extract from Labour’s manifesto The global poverty emergency: our moral duty, our common interest Labour’s international leadership on development has helped transform the lives of millions across the world. Yet too many people still live in extreme poverty, die from treatable diseases, or are denied the chance to go to school. We will lead an
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LCID and Co-operative Youth helping out in Brighton
LCID and Co-operative Youth are teaming up and heading down to Brighton to help out. There will be doorknocking and delivering across both days of the weekend, so please come along for either day if you’re free! 10:30 am at Hill House, Walpole Road, BN2 0LS on both days. Come along and help out the
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LCID Launch Tonight!
Later today, the Labour Campaign for International Development will have its official launch in an event at the House of Commons. This is an exciting day for LCID: we have already begun the debate about International Development on this website and now we have the chance to push forward, to gain support for a progressive,
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Evo Morales – from poverty to power
Exit polls over the weekend put Evo Morales on course for an overwhelming victory in Bolivia’s Presidential election. As the Guardian said in their editorial today, this victory has gone a long way to making the social transformation inside Bolivia irreversible. Such a transformation was unthinkable as recently as nine years ago. Then, Bolivia was
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