Tag: labour
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Profile: Jim Fitzpatrick MP, Poplar & Limehouse
On the 20th of March, LCID campaigned with the Minister for Food, Farming and the Environment Jim Fitzpatrick. Jim is Labour’s PPC in the Poplar and Limehouse constituency in East London, which has a very high Bangladeshi population. Jim has an outstanding record on development issues in Bangladesh, where he visits annually with his wife,…
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Phone canvassing with Mike Foster
Come along to Labour Party HQ on Thursday and help us phone-canvass for Worcester MP and International Development Minister, Mike Foster. Please email nick@lcid.org.uk by this Wednesday evening (17 March) to put your name down to come along. We will need to add your name to the list to get past security. If you can’t…
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What has Labour done for Fairtrade?
Today is the first day of the Fairtrade Fortnight, which runs from 22 February to 7 March. Around the world, millions of lives have been touched, changed and improved by Fairtrade: providing decent earnings to producers in developing countries. This year, the theme of the Fairtrade Fortnight is “The Big Swap”. Think about the products…
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What are your priorities for International Development?
The Labour Party is running a poll on international development. What do you think should be the priorities? You can take part in the poll on the Global Poverty Promise website. Your responses will be sent to the Labour manifesto team so this is a great opportunity to have your voice heard on international development. The…
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LCID backs the Robin Hood Tax
Today sees the launch of the Robin Hood Tax campaign by many of the key organisations responsible for the Make Poverty History campaign 5 years ago, including Oxfam, the TUC, ActionAid and Save the Children, backed by Comic Relief founder and film maker Richard Curtis. LCID would like to urge all party members to get behind…
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The Global #changewesee
Over the last two weeks, hundreds of Labour activists have been tweeting about change they’ve seen in their communities. From new schools, to refurbished hospitals, to libraries, to SureStart centres, the campaign has catalogued hundreds of examples of the tangible differences that the Labour government has made in the last 13 years and reminded us of the…
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Supporting Gareth Thomas MP, DfID Minister of State
For the General Election, LCID wants to do its bit to support Labour MPs, be they MPs known for their support of international development, or marginal seats where international development may be of particular importance to voters. This Saturday we went out on the streets of Harrow West to support DfID Minister of State Gareth…
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Stars launch Global Poverty Promise
Davina McCall, Mariella Frostrup, Annie Lennox, Richard Wilson and Meera Syal are among the big names launching a new poverty campaign today, the fifth anniversary of Nelson Mandela’s Make Poverty History speech in Trafalgar Square. In a campaign video released today – shown for the first time at LCID’s launch on Monday – the celebrities…
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What is a “socialist Anne Robinson with pom-poms” when it’s at home?
Review of our Launch for Progress Online by LCID exec member and anti-poverty campaigner Steve Cockburn With a deficit to reduce and public services to protect, why should progressives care about Labour’s commitment to increase aid and work to end global poverty? The answer at the launch of the Labour Campaign for International Development last…
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Douglas Alexander speaks at Labour Campaign for International Development Launch
Last night, the Labour Campaign for International Development officially launched at an event at the House of Commons, with an impressive audience of politicians, the international development sector and party activists. There was only room to stand as Secretary of State Douglas Alexander began his keynote speech, with Minister Mike Foster also taking questions and…
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