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In the UK the Jubilee 2000 torch is now carried by the Jubilee Debt Campaign. TIDAL is a member, along with most of the same national and regional groups who were part of Jubilee 2000. www.jubileedebtcampaign.org.uk
The other national organisation whose aims we support is the Trade Justice Movement ...calling for fundamental change to the unjust rules and institutions governing international trade, so that trade is made to work for all. www.tradejusticemovement.org.uk
TIDAL took the lead in helping Leeds to achieve Fairtrade City status. So there's now a new Leeds Fairtrade City Steering Group, with its own website at www.leedsfairtradecity.org
CAFOD The Catholic Agency for Overseas Development is the official overseas development and relief agency of the Catholic Church in England and Wales. CAFOD believes that all human beings have a right to dignity and respect, and that the world's resources are a gift to be shared equally by all men and women, whatever their race, nationality or religion. www.cafod.org.uk
Christian Aid An agency of the churches in the UK and Ireland, Christian Aid works wherever the need is greatest, irrespective of religion. It supports local organisations, which are best placed to understand local needs, as well as giving help on the ground through 16 overseas offices. Christian Aid believes in strengthening people to find their own solutions to the problems they face. It strives for a new world transformed by an end to poverty and campaigns to change the rules that keep people poor. www.christian-aid.org.uk
The Fairtrade Foundation exists to ensure a better deal for marginalised and disadvantaged third world producers. Set up by CAFOD, Christian Aid, New Consumer, Oxfam, Traidcraft Exchange and the World Development Movement, the Foundation awards a consumer label, the FAIRTRADE Mark, to products which meet internationally recognised standards of fair trade. The founding organisations were later joined by Britain's largest women's organisation, the Women's Institute. www.fairtrade.org.uk
Oxfam GB is a development, advocacy and relief agency working to put an end to poverty world-wide. Oxfam believes that poverty is not inevitable: it can be tackled, and must be ended. www.oxfam.org.uk
Tearfund is an evangelical Christian relief and development agency working through local partners to bring help and hope to communities in need around the world. www.tearfund.org
The Tobin Tax Network Millions upon millions of dollars, euro, pounds and yen are traded every day - mainly by banks. Imagine now, adding together everything that is bought and sold in the world -- like all food, housing and transport. The money trade is worth more than 50 times the value of all these other markets combined. Even a tiny tax on this enormous pile of money could bring millions of the world's poorest people out of poverty -- providing them with clean water, medicines and education. www.tobintax.org.uk
The World Development Movement tackles the root causes of world poverty. WDM campaigns for fairer world trade, regulating multinationals and cancelling Third World debt. www.wdm.org.uk
To find the name of your MP: www.locata.co.uk/commons
Leeds City councillors: www.leeds.gov.uk/moderngov/mgMemberIndex.asp