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Chris Worrall

UK Health and Education For All Campaign Project Manager

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From the UK to the US, Robin Hood is bigger than ever

An incredible 4,000 UK supporters of the Robin Hood Tax contacted their MPs to demand this tiny tax on banks in the last eight weeks - that's more than 70 per day!  Some in the UK even wore green hats and took photos in their home towns as part of the Global Week of Action - their pictures were seen in all 35 campaigning countries from Mexico to Malawi as a way to show leaders the global backing of the tax.  The...

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Birth rights: What's been achieved so far

Birth rights is an 'amazing campaign' said Andrew Mitchell, the UK's International Development Secretary when he spoke to an audience including midwives, nurses and doctors at the launch of the exhibition at the Good Hope Hospital in his constituency of Sutton Coldfield in May.   This was just one of an incredible 50 individual Birthrights exhibitions that have been organised by Oxfam activists in at least 15 different...

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