2008. A year of pressure points.

Oxfam campaigners put the pressure on poverty big time in 2008.

Amazing what you can achieve in 12 months. Especially when you've got the bit between your teeth, and one of those feisty, never-lie-down attitudes:

An energy company quivers

You stood up against high-carbon, coal-fired power stations. You sent 5,000 emails – and E.ON didn't know what hit them. Maybe they realised what can happen when you're fuelled by people power.

More money for health care

How do you get a government to take notice of the need for better healthcare for mothers in developing countries? You knit, obviously. A huge, head-turning blanket. Big enough to fill a hall. Big enough to get Gordon Brown to pledge an extra £450 million in aid.

The brink of a global arms treaty

You pedalled. (Boy, did you pedal.) On rickshaws, all over New York, to deliver a message of peace from Archbishop Tutu to 192 embassies. And the UN voted in favour of an international arms treaty. Read the full, brilliant story

Biofuels targets are cut

How many emails does it take to change a debate? 35,000, apparently. Demanding an alternative to biofuels. You shifted the focus from an environmental debate to one about poverty. (To get a complete biofuels ban, we'll need your energy again this year.)

Poverty takes a beating

And you stood up, together. 116 million people. Two per cent of the world's population. At 2,000 events. In 100 countries. All in the name of seeing poverty wiped out for good.