Back from Leeds Festival - see the pics Credit: Henry Odbert / Oxfam Our summer festivals tour came to and end this weekend at the super sunny Leeds Festival. We were there with our rocking rave tent, campaigning about climate change. Check out pics from Leeds on our festivals photo blog. A huge thanks to over 17,000 of you who signed our petition at Leeds - your name helps to put pressure on world leaders to do something about climate change, which hits the poorest people in the world hardest. If you were at Leeds or Reading Festival and took some great snaps then why not enter our photo competition and win yourself a stack of great CDs. posted at 2:47 PM | Permalink 0 comments

Chase Gordon Brown to go faster We want your help to put as much pressure as possible on Gordon Brown in his first 100 days as PM. We want you to chase him to: - GO FASTER on climate change - GO FURTHER on fighting poverty. - GO FOR a just foreign policy. Join the chase Take a quick snap of yourself in your best running pose, holding a special banner which you can print off from www.oxfam.org.uk/gordon/banner.pdf (remember to add your name and town). We'll deliver all the pics to the Labour Party Conference in September. Send your pics to gogordon.campaign@google.com. We'll put all the images on www.MySpace.com/oxfamgb, www.oxfam.org.uk/gordon, www.flickr.com/groups/gogordon and Facebook. With your help, we can make sure that Gordon Brown puts poverty high on his agenda during his first 100 days in office. posted at 2:08 PM | Permalink 0 comments

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Be seen, be heard Just seen this - Sunday 12 August is International Youth Day, organised by the United Nations. It's a chance for governments to finally pay attention to the opinions of young people around the world. Sounds like a good idea to us. The day is all about young people taking action against poverty, and the theme this year is "be seen, be heard". posted at 11:10 AM | Permalink 0 comments

Get into Leeds and Reading Festivals for free - extended deadline Just to let you know that there's a great opporutnity to get in to Leeds or Reading Festival for FREE. In return, you need to tell punters how to have a green festival (ie, recycle stuff, and don't burn your tent afterwards). Oh, and the deadline has just been extended to 17 August, so find out more and apply now >> posted at 11:58 AM | Permalink 0 comments

Great photos from young people Just thought you'd like to see these great pics. Shootnations has unveiled the winning entries of its photo competition today, which was open to 11-24 year-olds across the globe. The theme of the competition was what young people would like to change, what upsets them and who they think holds the power to make change. The overall winner was 16 year-old Maher Elnaggar from Egypt, who says: "This photograph reveals our determination and our will to break free through the circle of life and its problems." The overall best runner-up prize went to Barbara Anastacio, 22 from Portugal, whose photo represented what upsets her: "Above all it bothers me that fear, the biggest terrorist of all, can stop us from loving and living without the ability to be free." All of the winning entries will go on show at the UN headquarters in New York as part of the celebrations for International Youth Day on 12 August. posted at 2:45 PM | Permalink 0 comments

Latest pics from our festivals tour Check out our photo blog for the latest instalment of our summer festivals tour. Last weekend we were at Womad, loving the world music (but not really loving the mud). Next stop is V Festival in a few weeks' time, where we'll be getting V-goers to put pressure on world leaders to do something urgently about climate change (and how it hits poor people hardest). posted at 2:16 PM | Permalink 0 comments

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