38 Degrees (a strong community of people-power-change!)
38 Degrees is a million-plus strong community of residents who are creating people-power-change through online petitions, to businesses and government. It has had huge successes over the years, the project named after the degree at when an avalanche occurs.
‘Funded by fivers’ from a nationwide community of nurses, taxi drivers, parents, shopkeepers and pensioners, users basically contact head office with a campaign. And if it’s worth doing, receive all the tools to get the petition online, and ready for others to sign and take action.
Previously successful petitions include:
- Reversing Cameron’s government’s decision to sell off our remaining public forests to private ownership in a bid to ‘protect them’. It later said it had been a huge error of judgement.
- Helping a grandad in South Wales, to provide recycling points for Walker’s crisps.
- Pushing British Gas to change their prices, to help single parents.
- Keeping a ban on pesticides, to protect endangered bees.
- Having the government fund 700,000 urgent dental appointments.
- Scrapping the two-child benefit to lift 450,000 children (70% of whose parents are in full-time work) out of poverty.
Present campaigns include:
- Making hedgehog highways law (so hogs can travel around at night to find food and shelter)
- Keeping chlorine-washed chicken off supermarket shelves
- Not backing down over tariff threats (to stand with Greenland)
- Save the 15 penguins living in a dark basement in a London aquarium
- Stop the weakening of planning laws, which could threaten our National Parks with replacing wild places (such as the Lake District and Dartmoor) with bulldozers, building and car parks.
- Make swift bricks mandatory in all new building projects (this has just passed in Scotland, but the English government still wants it to be voluntary, despite swifts at risk of extinction due to loss of habitat).
- Hold water companies accountable for discharge of raw sewage.
- Scrap all hospital car parking charges (which especially affects visitors to patients with long-term sickness).
- Say no to second jobs for MPs (like ‘Farage’ on GB News)
