Oxfam volunteer campaigner Rosanne White explains how Oxfam supporters – online and off – are getting behind a great campaign to turn a tiny tax into a huge help for the world’s poorest people.
Robin Hood and his ever-increasing band of merry (wo)men are celebrating victories both in Parliament and online this week.
Since the campaign launched on 10th February, a phenomenal 120,000 people have become fans on Facebook with more than 3000 joining every day. That’s nearly four times as many fans as the three main political parties put together! 61,000 people have voted in favour of the Robin Hood Tax on the website while ‘The Banker’, a film starring Bill Nighy and written by Richard Curtis, has been viewed 330,000 times on Youtube and will be appearing soon at a cinema near you…
And that’s not all. An outstanding 80 MPs attended the official launch of the campaign in Westminster yesterday, thanks in no small part to the two thousand supporters who emailed their local MPs or shot virtual arrows at them on Twitter. Thanks to all of you who did!
All parties were represented across the board, indicating that there is widespread political support for the campaign. So now we need to keep up the pressure to turn what has been described as an ‘unprecedented’ turnout of MPs at the launch into real action. Find out more about what happened when Robin Hood went to parliament.
So, as more and more people don feathered caps and green tights in support of Robin Hood and his world-changing tax, why is this campaign so important and how can you get involved?
Basically, it’s a simple way to raise huge amounts of money to fight poverty, here in the UK and in developing countries too. We could end the UK benefits poverty trap and get every child in the world in school, among other good things! Get more detail on the big idea behind it.
Robin Hood needs YOU to join his merry band! To find out how you could get involved, check out the, quite frankly, brilliant ideas about taking action from the merry folk on Facebook. We need to keep up those ‘Yes’ votes so make sure you vote at www.robinhoodtax.org.uk.
Spread the word via Twitter, doing your own blog or simply by just telling everyone you know!
More information about the Robin Hood Tax
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