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On tour with Klaxons
 Our valiant, voracious volunteer Pete Lusby has just got back from a tour with the truly wonderful Klaxons, helping to Fight Climate Poverty across the UK.
 Anyway, without further mucking about, here's Pete's tale of his tour with the band...
"It's been an incredible couple of weeks. I've just come back to reality, after being Oxfam's on-tour coordinator with Klaxons, Simian Mobile Disco and Fist Fite. The tour took in Manchester, Edinburgh, Newcastle, Southampton, Leeds, Cardiff, Birmingham and two dates at Brixton Academy, London (yes, in that order).
 I joined the tour in Newcastle, hopped on the production crew tour bus, dropped my bag on my tiny bunk (see pic) and followed the band around the country, campaigning with a group of local volunteers at each venue. With the UN climate change conference in Bali running from 3-14 December, our Fight Climate Poverty petition was really timely.
 Klaxons have been described as anything from 'acid-rave sci-fi punk-funk' to the pioneers of the 'art-rock-rave-revolution'. Obviously, 'indie-rock' doesn't quite cut it. Jamie, James, Simon and Steffan Klaxon are all great supporters of Oxfam, and very kindly invited us along to campaign on their tour.
This was a great opportunity for Oxfam, and for me personally. Klaxons put on a great live show for their fans in packed venues, and I got a free gig every night - I was in my element! On top of all that, Klaxons and the other bands on tour were all really nice guys and the production crew took me in as one of the roadies.
 Following the Brixton dates, the band headed off with their slim-lined crew to tour Japan, before taking a break from touring to write the follow up to Mercury Music prize-winning debut Myths of the Near Future. I am sure that when they hit the road again it'll be another sell-out tour. Hopefully Oxfam will be invited along again!"
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Show your support for us on Facebook
 If you're half as addicted to Facebook as we are, you're probably drowning in a sea of status updates, super-pokes, and endless requests to play scissor, paper, stone and be bitten by vampires.
Whilst you procrastinate, flirt and generally avoid work for days in the deeper realms of the 'book, why not do something worthy at the same time? Join our Oxfam Facebook group and get the latest news and stuff from us, and then install the wonderful Oxfam Unwrapped application too.
Go on. It's not as if you've got anything better to do.
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Small Guides to Big Issues winners
 With over 100 brilliant entries for our competition to win our fab new Small Guides, choosing five winners was hard work. Eventually, we managed to whittle them down. We asked you what issue you would most like to see a Small Guide focus on. This is what the winners said:
Rob Barham suggested breaking the issue of globalisation down in a book, ‘because it’s huge and moving so fast’.
In order to devalue some of the prejudices, Lucy Tavener said we need a guide to unemployment and opportunities.
Samantha Viggers thought world religions should be addressed so that we have a better understanding of different cultures.
A small guide to ethical shopping, said Nikki Burns, to give us a better idea of where all our ‘stuff’ comes from and how it’s made.
And, concerned with young people’s attitude towards politics, Aideen McDonald suggested a small guide to the importance of voting.
Well done to the winners for your genius ideas, copies of our Small Guides to Big Issues will be on your doorstep any day now.
Thanks a lot to all those of you who entered, we’ve loved reading all your ideas, and have gained a real insight into what you really care about and what you think needs to be explained. As for the next Small Guide – watch this space.
More about Small Guides to Big Issues >>
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Get snapping and win work experience with Channel 4
 If you’re under 25 and love volunteering, grab yourself a camera and get snapping – you could win some amazing work experience with Channel 4 and up to £200 in vouchers for electrical stuff.
What is it you enjoy about volunteering? Whether it’s meeting cool people, trying new things or just getting a warm fuzzy feeling from helping a good cause, the YoungWhipperSnappers2007 photo competition wants you to show it the way you see it.
Just send an image taken with your camera or mobile phone showing why you enjoy what you’re doing. The closing date is Friday 7 December - so what are you waiting for?
Find out more and enter now >>
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Your signatures = pressure on politicians to fight climate poverty
 This is the moment when 100,000 of your signatures were handed to the UK government (Environment Secretary Hilary Benn, to be precise) ahead of a big climate change conference this week.
As the billboard says (if you can read it): 100,000 people (that's YOU) have asked the UK government to prioritise the needs of the world's poorest people at the UN climate change conference (in Bali, right now).
Thanks LOADS if you were one of thousands of people who signed this year. Your support means we can send a very clear message to our leaders that they need to ACT NOW.
Want to do more? Join our Facebook group, and tell us what you're doing to Fight Climate Poverty. Keep up to date
See what the politicians decide: get Oxfam updates from the UN climate change conference.
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