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Friday Apr 06, 2007

Cooper Temple Clause...not quite what i expected!

 You never know what you are going to get when you go to a gig to campaign. As we approached the Shepards Bush Empire last night to watch the Cooper Temple Clause, their support acts and to collect lots of signatures for our Make Trade Fair campaign, we began to wonder whether the people waiting outside were really the type who would want to support Oxfam. We soon learnt that you should never judge people by their appearence and people really can surprise you! Not only were people easy to approach, they were allso more than willing to sign our petition and many of them were pleased to tell us that they brought fair trade tea bags - one girl agreed with me that fair trade easter eggs were the best chocolate to be easten tthis weekend (as well as fair trade hot choc!) . We would normally take a team of campaigners to a gig like this, with only an Oxfam staff member and myself - we made the most of the time we had to collect as many signtaures as possible, and went away dedicated to making sure that even more people got involved next time.

Posted by Helen Bryant ( 3:02 PM )
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