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• David Tennant news roundup: Graham Norton Show preview, Burke and Hare promo art, and more

  
  Scottish Actors — Authority: 137
  Check out a preview of David Tennant on The Graham Norton Show below. The show airs in the US on November 14 at 10pm Eastern on BBC America . You can watch David Tennants climate change Oxfam appeal below. Thanks to mcfangirl for sharing the video. New promo art and story details for Burke and ...
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• Let’s talk world leaders out of their stage fright

  
  Oxfam News Blog — Authority: 436
  Young people in London join The Wave The climate talks in Copenhagen in December are so important that there’s a whole string of meetings beforehand to get ready and prepare the ground for the main event. One of these meetings took place in Barcelona last week and, as you may have read in the media , EU leaders ...
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• Oxfam shops are the cornerstone of Arctic Monkeys’ success

  
  Oxfam News Blog — Authority: 436
  Band to release a second single through Oxfam shops on 16 November Following the phenomenal success of the ‘Crying Lightning’ 7″, which was available exclusively through Oxfam shops, Arctic Monkeys are once again teaming up with the charity for follow-up single ‘Cornerstone’. The ‘Crying Lightning’ ...
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• US Clashes With UK Over New Tax Proposal

  
  taxgirl — Authority: 545
  When it comes to economics, the US and UK tend to find themselves on the same page. A recent example is their consolidated front over the need for banking transparency – both countries took a tough approach with respect to the banking secrecy laws of in Switzerland and Luxembourg. But this weekend, the US and the ...
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• G20 leaders fail to agree climate change financing

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  By Dipankar De SarkarLondon, Nov 8 (IANS) India’s Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee and his counterparts from other G20 countries have agreed to maintain financial stimulus packages aimed at bailing out distressed economies but failed to agree to a financial package to help developing countries fight climate ...
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• YouTube video sinks Turnbull minder

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 432
  A media minder for Federal Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull has reportedly quit his job after being linked to an online bout of Liberal factional warfare. The video parodies Liberal MP Alex Hawke by portraying him as an enraged Adolf Hitler, echoing a YouTube trend of dubbing Hitler biopic Downfall with fake ...
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• In Bolivia climate change is not a future problem, it is now

  
  Abiding in Bolivia — Authority: 493
  Chacaltaya glacier, there you see it, now you dont Oxfam America recently put out an alarming press release explaining how climate change will put dire stress on impoverished communities in Bolivia along five dimensions: glacier retreat, natural disasters, disease spread, forest fires, and erratic weather. All ...
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• Climate Countdown success - onwards to The Wave!

  
  Oxfam News Blog — Authority: 436
  Well on Saturday 24th October we pulled out all the stops with The Converging World and Christian Aid to put on an all-singing all-dancing climate change action extravaganza. Thousands of Bristol folk turned up to hear Jonathon Porritt tell us that there is a “gathering momentum that gives us more hope than we have ...
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• Liverpool and Manchester students thumbing up in the fight against climate change

  
  Oxfam News Blog — Authority: 436
      Hi there. I’m Megan, co-chair of the Manchester University Oxfam society. There is a lot of us about -Check us out ( Manchester University Oxfam society )  and at the moment we are all really busy with a fantastic campaigning project which is slowly, but happily, taking over our lives! Back in sunny ...
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• Show us your climate leader

  
  English Blog — Authority: 442
  The clock is ticking on climate change. In one month, 192 countries will meet at the international climate summit in Copenhagen to negotiate a new global treaty to prevent catastrophic climate change. Everyone, including our political leaders, know what needs to be done in the deal : it must be fair, ambitious and ...
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• Blackheath

  
  Charity Shop Tourism — Authority: 103
  Blackheath, picture by waltz4aidan under creative commons. click pic for link. I’ve skirted around Blackheath once or twice before, but it was good to get stuck in to the shops on this last weekend. I first visited to sample the delights of the Breeders at 4AD’s 25th anniversary bash, and most recently swung ...
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• Agriculture, food & climate change

  
  Wednesday-Night — Authority: 133
  Lessons from the Green Revolution ; Green Revolution: Curse or Blessing? ; Agriculture & Food ; (International Food Policy Research Institute) Agriculture and climate change: An agenda for negotiation in Copenhagen ; Global Treaty on Climate Change ; Climate Change (that is, Global Warming) and ...
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• Bolivia: the necessity of adaptation

  
  Hot Topic — Authority: 527
  Oxfam’s messages on the battering effects of climate change on poorer countries continue with the publication this week of their report Bolivia: Climate Change, Poverty and Adaptation.  Poverty and injustice in many countries of the world is what Oxfam works on, and this focus has inevitably led to concern about ...
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• Manchester climate conference sparks new wave of action

  
  Oxfam News Blog — Authority: 436
  Elvis Sukali talking about the effects of climate change in Malawi On October 17 th , over 150 activists descended on Manchester for the highly-charged Climate Action Now conference. I was there, and absorbed some of the megawatts of (renewable) energy that’s powering a blowout of action across the North West. ...
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• Ask your MP to attend Copehagen debate in Parliament tomorrow

  
  Oxfam News Blog — Authority: 436
  There will be a debate in the House of Commons tomorrow morning called “Preparation for the Climate Change Conference at Copenhagen”. Give your MP a ring in their Westminster office today (just call the switchboard on 020 7219 3000 and give their name) or drop them an email to give them the heads up that the ...
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• Oxfam DIY at London Fashion Week

  
  Uplift Magazine — Authority: 118
  Estethica has been providing otherwise blinkered fashionistas (myself included!) with an environmental eye opener at London Fashion Week since 2006. The Estethica exhibition brings together an exciting bunch of ethically sound, fair trade and environmentally friendly fashion labels and charities so that they may ...
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• The Green Granny does Four-a-Week

  
  eatinZ.com — Authority: 139
  
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• President Karzai’s new government must deliver on schools, midwives and police say aid agencies

  
  AlertNet Newsdesk — Authority: 720
  Oxfam GB - UK The new Afghan government must urgently devote greater resources to building up to 6,000 new schools, training upwards of 5,000 new midwives and professionalizing the police force, according to aid agencies working throughout Afghanistan. Their set of recommendations to the new Afghan administration ...
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• Global citizens get active together in the North West!

  
  Oxfam News Blog — Authority: 436
  Elvis Sukali and the effects of climate change in Malawi Pupils from Abraham Moss in Manchester make their voices heard Earlier this month, Oxfam North West hosted its first Active Global Citizenship conference for young people. For me, the event was the culmination of weeks of preparation - from ...
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• Ripple News/Review - Neil Finn and 7 Worlds Collide Rock for Charity

  
  The Ripple Effect — Authority: 127
  Now, I dont know if Id call myself a Finn brothers groupie or not, but Ill tell you, ever since the day that I first heard "Poor Boy," off of the Split Enz True Colours album, Ive picked up just about everything that Neil or Tim, or Neil and Tim, have ever done. And truth be told, rarely have the Finn brothers ...
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