Justice Mail 17th Dec 2012

Dear Justice Mail Friends

Garment workers in Cambodia sewing festive items on sale on our high street this Christmas make less than 35p an hour. Low wages come at a high cost. Workers often live in small shared rooms without water and sanitation. Many are overworked and suffer from malnutrition.

Use the link below to send a Christmas message to H&M, GAP and Zara to ask them to commit to pay a living wage in Cambodia.

http://www.labourbehindthelabel.org/campaigns/itemlist/category/267-take-action

Cheers

Mike Cross

All Saints Kings Heath

 

Justice Mail 5th DEcember 2012

Dear Justice Mail Friends

Christian Aid is asking the EU to take urgent action to promote a lasting and just peace in Gaza and the Middle East.

The European Union has the power and influence to get the peace process moving again. It is a member of the Quartet Group (alongside the UN, US and Russia), tasked with facilitating peace negotiations between the two sides since 2002.

It has close economic and political ties with both Israel and the Palestinian Authority and is a major provider of humanitarian assistance to the occupied Palestinian territory, which includes Gaza.

But the EU has not always used its power to provide the leadership it ought to.

Use the link below to write to the EU's High Representative for Foreign Affairs, Baroness Ashton, to remind her of the EU's obligations and the urgent need for the EU to play a key role in securing peace. Your message will also be sent to the Foreign Secretary, William Hague, as the UK can also exert considerable influence over the situation both within the EU and in the region.

http://act.christianaid.org.uk/ea-action/action?ea.client.id=48&ea.campaign.id=17602

Mike Cross

All Saints Kings Heath

 

Justice Mail 17th November 2012

Dear Justice Mail Friends

Tax dodging has been in the news again this week. The scale of tax avoidance by international names such as Facebook, Starbucks and Amazon has been exposed. Some MPs are now calling for a Parliamentary Inquiry into these practices. If we act now, we can get more MPs to join them.

Use Church Action on Poverty’s link below to ask your MP to speak out on Tax Dodging.

http://action.church-poverty.org.uk/ea-action/action?ea.client.id=128&ea.campaign.id=17041&ea.tracking.id=capwebsite

 Cheers

Mike Cross
All Saints Kings Heath

Justice Mail: 2nd Nov 2012

Dear Justice Mail Friends

Supermarkets wield enormous power over the farmers and suppliers that want to sell the products we buy every day, by dictating terms and agreements to suit their profit margins. These pressures often get passed on...

to workers in the form of low wages, long hours and poor working conditions.

Traidcraft State: after a long campaign by Traidcraft and others, we are very close to having a watchdog (the Groceries Code Adjudicator) that will help hold supermarkets to account for how they treat their suppliers. The Bill to set up the supermarkets watchdog is making its way through parliament – we’re nearly there!

Use the Traidcraft link below to email Jo Swinson, the minister responsible for setting up the watchdog, and call on her to give it the power it needs to be effective: the power to fine.

http://www.traidcraft.co.uk/get_involved/campaign/watchdog_take_action_email_jo_swinson

Mike Croos
All Saints Kings Heath

Justice Mail Action 16th October 2012

Dear Justice Mail Friends
                              
Locally thousands of people are living in awful conditions because their landlords are getting away with renting out homes that are in an appalling state of repair.

Please use Shelter’s link below email your council demanding they ensure that rogue landlords in your local area are made to provide adequate housing.

http://england.shelter.org.uk/campaigns/evict_rogue_landlords/email_your_council?src=hpban-c

Cheers
Mike Cross
ALL SAINTS CHURCH
KINGS HEATH

Justice Mail Action 30th September 2012

Free Polictical Prisoners in Burma

Dear Justice Mail friends,

Slow progress is being made towards democratic freedom in Burma and there is still a long way to go. Please go to the Burma Campaign site and take the action regarding freeing political prisoners. You can use the link below.  

 

Free Polictical Prisoners in Burma

John Andrews
The Church of the Martyrs
Leicester Martyrs’ Justice Mail

Justice Mail Action 15th September 2012

Dear Justice Mail Friends

Campaigners in Zimbabwe are calling for a debt audit to increase transparency and accountability, learn lessons from past lending and borrowing, and find out whether or not all the debts are legitimate. Although Zimbabwe stopped paying much of its debt in the year 2000 Zimbabweans simply don’t know the origins of all the $7 billion debt, nor who benefited from the loans in the first place.

Use the Jubilee Debt Campaigns link below to email Donald Kaberuka, the President of the African Development Bank, which is leading the discussions among Zimbabwe’s creditors, and ask him to support a democratic audit of Zimbabwe’s debts.

http://www.jubileedebtcampaign.org.uk/?lid=7536

 

Mike Cross

Kings Heath All Saints