Surfers Against Sewage

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Surfers Against Sewage

From100 Campaigns that Changed the World

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Feb 2, 2022

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I speak to Hugo Tagholm from Surfers Against Sewage who have been campaiging UK government and water companies to end sewage pollution in rivers and the ocean. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Feb 2, 2022

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A podcast showcasing the best advocacy campaigns from past and present. Learning the lessons from social and political campaigns that have made an impact. A tool for campaigners and those that are interested in how change happens. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Tax Justice: The Tax Justice Network is an independent international network launched in 2003. Their mission is to ‘change the weather’ on a wide range of issues related to tax, tax havens and financial globalisation. We push for systemic change. in this episode I i. by 100 Campaigns that Changed the World
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Robin Hood Tax: In this pilot episode recorded last year I talk to David Hillman, who cut his campaigning teeth on the anti-Apartheid campaign before going on to work on the hugely successful effort to ban landmines and drop developing country debt. He is currently dire. by 100 Campaigns that Changed the World
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Kumi Naidoo: Episode 5 contains an interview with Kumi Naidoo, the South African Secretary General of Amnesty International, and well known campaigner on global poverty, climate justice and human rights. He covers and touches on several campaigns including Make Pover. by 100 Campaigns that Changed the World
56 min listen
Ozone Layer Campaign: This interview is with Fiona Weir who is talking to me today about the Ozone layer campaign which led to phase out of most products that deplete the ozone, such as aerosols and air conditioning coolants with chlorofluorocarbons.Scientists first discover. by 100 Campaigns that Changed the World
43 min listen
The Suffragettes: My guest is Helen Pankhurst, women's rights activist and great grandaughter of Emily Pankhurst, and togther we examine the Suffragette's role in the campaign for women's suffrage. by 100 Campaigns that Changed the World
36 min listen
Close Guantánamo Bay: Clive Stafford Smith is the founder of Reprieve and the Louisiana Crisis Assistance Center and in this episode we talk about his role in the long running campaign to close the prison on the US military base at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba. To date, Clive has h. by 100 Campaigns that Changed the World
35 min listen
Windrush Campaign: The Windrush scandal erupted in 2018 when it emerged that many British people who arrived from the Carribean before 1973 were being wrongly detained, denied legal rights, threatened with deportation, and in some cases wrongly deported from the UK by the . by 100 Campaigns that Changed the World
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HIV Campaigning in the 2000s: HIV Campaigning in the 2000s by 100 Campaigns that Changed the World
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Spycops: In November 2015 London's Metropolitan Police was forced to apologise to seven women "tricked into relationships" over a period of 25 years by officers from two undercover police squads. The officers involved - just some of 140 officers who took part in . by 100 Campaigns that Changed the World
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Hillsborough Justice Campaign: This episode features Margaret Aspinall, chair of the Hillsborough Family Support Group. The Hillsborough disaster led to the campaign for justice for the 96 Liverpool fans who died in a crush in Hillsborough stadium during a football match between Liver. by 100 Campaigns that Changed the World
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The Campaign to Abolish the Slave Trade: This podcast features back to back interviews with two experts on the slave trade and the British campaign to end it: Dr Richard Huzzey, Associate Professor of History at Durham University and Dr Richard Benjamin, Head of the International Slavery Museum. by 100 Campaigns that Changed the World
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Surfers Against Sewage: I speak to Hugo Tagholm from Surfers Against Sewage who have been campaiging UK government and water companies to end sewage pollution in rivers and the ocean. by 100 Campaigns that Changed the World
43 min listen
Peter Tatchell: Peter has been campaigning since the 60s on issues of human rights, democracy, LGBT freedom, and global justice. From the late 70s onwards, he proposed a single, comprehensive Equal Rights Act to harmonise the uneven patchwork of equality legislation. Th. by 100 Campaigns that Changed the World
41 min listen
Stop the European Super League: Joe Blott talks about the campaign to stop the European Super League proposal, which included some of Europe's biggest clubs and collapsed within 72 hours after widespread criticism from fans, players and governing bodies and politicians. by 100 Campaigns that Changed the World
30 min listen
Equal Marraige Campaign: Andrew Copson discusses campaign to legalise marraige between same sex couples in the UK by 100 Campaigns that Changed the World
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Covid-19 Bereaved Familes for Justice by 100 Campaigns that Changed the World
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Better Together Campaign: Scottish IndyRef: Blair McDougall explains the success of - and the stories around - the Better Together Campaign which set out the case for staying in the UK during the Scottish Independence Referendum of 2014. by 100 Campaigns that Changed the World
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Freedom Rides: Civil Rights in the US by 100 Campaigns that Changed the World
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Together for Yes: Abortion in Ireland: Ireland abortion rights campaign by 100 Campaigns that Changed the World
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End Our Cladding Scandal: Paul Afshar by 100 Campaigns that Changed the World
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Looking back and learning lessons: Chris Stalker by 100 Campaigns that Changed the World
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Jubilee 2000 Debt Campaign by 100 Campaigns that Changed the World
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Anti-Aparthield Movement: The UK campaign to end the Apartheid system in South Africa by 100 Campaigns that Changed the World
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Mum's for Lungs: Grassroots air pollution campaign by 100 Campaigns that Changed the World
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Infected Blood Campaign: Factor 8 by 100 Campaigns that Changed the World
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Marcus Rashford Free School Meals: Jo Ralling from the Food Foundation: #EndChildFoodPoverty by 100 Campaigns that Changed the World
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WASPI Campaign: Women Against State Pension Inequality by 100 Campaigns that Changed the World
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Close Guantánamo Bay: Clive Stafford Smith is the founder of Reprieve and the Louisiana Crisis Assistance Center and in this episode we talk about his role in the long running campaign to close the prison on the US military base at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba. To date, Clive has h. by 100 Campaigns that Changed the World
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Spycops: In November 2015 London's Metropolitan Police was forced to apologise to seven women "tricked into relationships" over a period of 25 years by officers from two undercover police squads. The officers involved - just some of 140 officers who took part in . by 100 Campaigns that Changed the World
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The Campaign to Abolish the Slave Trade: This podcast features back to back interviews with two experts on the slave trade and the British campaign to end it: Dr Richard Huzzey, Associate Professor of History at Durham University and Dr Richard Benjamin, Head of the International Slavery Museum. by 100 Campaigns that Changed the World
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44 min listen
Robin Hood Tax: In this pilot episode recorded last year I talk to David Hillman, who cut his campaigning teeth on the anti-Apartheid campaign before going on to work on the hugely successful effort to ban landmines and drop developing country debt. He is currently dire. by 100 Campaigns that Changed the World
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