Urgent Actions
Take Action
War on Want needs your help to carry out these urgent actions:
 | Take action: Call time on global greed Sign a petition demanding that Gordon Brown call time on a system of global greed. |
 | | Take Action - Stop Europe's damaging trade deals: Join the growing resistance around the world and take action to change the way Europe trades. Email EU Commission President José Manuel Barroso and demand that he stop Europe’s destructive trade deals. |
 | | Prevent banks from financing the arms trade: Send an email urging Peter Mandelson, UK Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise & Regulatory Reform, to prevent banks from financing the arms trade. |
 | | Take action for the people who make your clothes: Send an e-postcard to the UK’s top four clothing retailers. |
 | | Email your MP to stop supermarkets squeezing suppliers: The Competition Commission recently published the findings and recommendations from its 2-year Grocery Inquiry, uncovering evidence of supermarkets squeezing suppliers to constantly reduce their costs while boosting their own profits. |
 | | Stop supermarket power: Sign our petition against supermarket power. |
| Get your MP to demand that the Foreign Secretary introduce legislation on Private Armies now: Send a letter to your MP urging them to call on the Foreign Secretary to introduce legislation regulating private military and security companies as a matter of urgency. |
 | | Email the Foreign Secretary about British mining companies British mining companies profit from situations of conflict - tell the government to support legislation for corporate accountability. |
 | | Take action for Western Sahara: Tens of thousands of Saharawi people are living in a state of siege and face appalling human rights abuses and repression. Email David Miliband MP to take action |
| Call on the government to put pressure on Israel: Tell the Foreign Secretary to suspend the EU-Israel Association Agreement. |
 | | Stop Corporate Tax Dodging: Send an email to Gordon Brown to demand that he take action to stop corporate tax dodging. |
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Call on the government to regulate supermarkets: Email John Hutton urging for legislation so that companies and their suppliers cannot abuse workers where they operate in the world, and if they do then they can seek redress. |
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Coca-Cola e-card: Send a postcard to Coca-Cola management urging them to redress the damage that they are inflicting upon communities and its workers worldwide. |
| Join the fight against global poverty: Be a part of the solution. We need your help and support to continue our work campaigning and supporting overseas projects. |
