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Miscellaneous

Each of the organizations linked to in this category all focus on a specific but separate topic from each other. Each topic is too specialized to be given its own category hence the Miscellaneous tag. Topics range from under-age drinking to making more wholesome movies.

Guide Dogs – Talking Buses Campaign

  • Time taken:
    1 minute to email a UK Member of Parliament on an issue affecting visually impaired people
  • Impact:
    Potential to change UK law to make talking buses compulsory so that bus travel will be easier for everyone
  • Cost:
    Nothing
  • Pyjama Rating:
    100% full-on pyjama zone!

Categories: Actions, Advocacy, By Category, By Time, Country, Europe, Human Welfare, Miscellaneous, Miscellaneous, Popular Causes, Quickies!, Under 1 minute, United Kingdom

Find out more about   Guide Dogs – Talking Buses Campaign

Election Leaflets – Monitoring Election Campaigns

  • Time taken:
    5 minutes to scan, photograph and upload a UK election leaflet.
  • Impact:
    Potential to hold UK parliamentary candidates to account over the promises they make in their election campaigns
  • Cost:
    Nothing
  • Pyjama Rating:
    Day clothes and PJs

Categories: Actions, Advocacy, By Category, By Time, Country, Europe, Miscellaneous, Miscellaneous, Offline, Politics, Popular Causes, Quickies!, Under 5 minutes, United Kingdom

Find out more about   Election Leaflets – Monitoring Election Campaigns

Your Next MP – Collecting Data on UK Political Parties

  • Time taken:
    5 - 10 minutes to email information about UK candidates, political parties or general election results
  • Impact:
    Enables democracy in the UK to become more transparent
  • Cost:
    Nothing
  • Pyjama Rating:
    100% full-on pyjama zone

Categories: Actions, Advocacy, By Category, By Time, Country, Europe, Miscellaneous, Miscellaneous, Politics, Popular Causes, Quickies!, Under 10 minutes, United Kingdom

Find out more about   Your Next MP – Collecting Data on UK Political Parties

Hollaback! – Fighting Street Harassment

  • Time taken:
    Up to 30 minutes to type out your story for others to read and share
  • Impact:
    Helping to end sexual harassment and gender based violence
  • Cost:
    Nothing
  • Pyjama Rating:
    100% full-on pyjama zone!

Categories: Actions, Advocacy, By Category, By Time, Human Welfare, Miscellaneous, Miscellaneous, Popular Causes, Quickies!, Under 30 minutes

Find out more about   Hollaback! – Fighting Street Harassment

Guide Dogs for the Blind

  • Time taken:
    A few minutes to read and sign a petition about the issues that affect blind people
  • Impact:
    Potential to make the UK environment more user friendly for the blind and visually impaired
  • Cost:
    Nothing
  • Pyjama Rating:
    100% full-on pyjama zone!

Categories: Actions, Advocacy, By Time, Country, Europe, Miscellaneous, Miscellaneous, Quickies!, Under 5 minutes, United Kingdom

Find out more about   Guide Dogs for the Blind

Food Declaration – Improving Food Quality

  • Time taken:
    1 minute to provide the briefest of details to sign their Food Declaration
  • Impact:
    Helping to create a healthy food and agriculture system across the world that will increase the quality and quantity of healthy food
  • Cost:
    Nothing
  • Pyjama Rating:
    100% full-on pyjama zone!

Categories: Actions, Advocacy, By Time, Country, Miscellaneous, Miscellaneous, North America, Quickies!, Under 1 minute, United States

Find out more about   Food Declaration – Improving Food Quality

Easter Seals – Advocate for People with Disabilities

  • Time taken:
    A few minutes to read and sign a petition about issues that affect disabled people in the U.S.
  • Impact:
    Provides greater opportunities for people with disabilities to lead a more 'normal' life
  • Cost:
    Nothing
  • Pyjama Rating:
    100% full-on pyjama zone!

Categories: Actions, Advocacy, By Category, By Time, Country, Human Welfare, Miscellaneous, Miscellaneous, North America, Popular Causes, Quickies!, Under 5 minutes, United States

Find out more about   Easter Seals – Advocate for People with Disabilities

Urban Forum – Responsible Finance

  • Time taken:
    Several minutes to contact your MP and/or spread awareness of their 'Responsible Finance' campaign
  • Impact:
    Potential to improve the UK banking system and make it more accountable for it's actions
  • Cost:
    Nothing
  • Pyjama Rating:
    100% full-on pyjama zone!

Categories: Actions, Advocacy, By Category, By Time, Country, Economic Development, Europe, Miscellaneous, Miscellaneous, Popular Causes, Quickies!, Under 5 minutes, United Kingdom

Find out more about   Urban Forum – Responsible Finance

Fair Pensions – Responsible Investing

  • Time taken:
    1 minute to sign a petition
  • Impact:
    Provides empowerment to influence company behaviour on environmental and social issues.
  • Cost:
    Nothing
  • Pyjama Rating:
    100% full-on pyjama zone!

Categories: Actions, Advocacy, By Category, By Time, Economic Development, Miscellaneous, Miscellaneous, Popular Causes, Quickies!, Under 1 minute

Find out more about   Fair Pensions – Responsible Investing

BananaLink – Improving the Banana Trade

  • Time taken:
    A few minutes to read and sign a petition on issues that affect the banana trade
  • Impact:
    Works to achieve fair and sustainable production and trade in bananas and related relevant crops that will alleviate poverty and benefit the livelihoods and health of small-scale producers and agricultural workers
  • Cost:
    Nothing
  • Pyjama Rating:
    100% full-on pyjama zone!

Categories: Actions, Advocacy, By Category, By Time, Country, Economic Development, Guatemala, Miscellaneous, Miscellaneous, North America, Popular Causes, Quickies!, Under 5 minutes

Find out more about   BananaLink – Improving the Banana Trade

National Coalition to Ban the Death Penalty

  • Time taken:
    5 - 15 minutes to research and act on the issues surrounding a Death Row inmate
  • Impact:
    Potential to abolish the Death Penalty and so pave the way for alternative punishments
  • Cost:
    Nothing
  • Pyjama Rating:
    100% full-on pyjama zone!

Categories: Actions, Advocacy, By Category, Country, Human Welfare, Miscellaneous, Miscellaneous, North America, Popular Causes, United States

Find out more about   National Coalition to Ban the Death Penalty

Green America

  • Time taken:
    A few minutes to brief yourself about a cause and then sign a petition
  • Impact:
    So many worthy issues, so much potential to create change on any contentious subject under the sun
  • Cost:
    Nothing
  • Pyjama Rating:
    100% full-on pyjama zone!

Categories: Actions, Advocacy, Miscellaneous, Miscellaneous

Find out more about   Green America

The Goodworks Network

  • Time taken:
    1 minute to sign a petition
  • Impact:
    Potential to make films more wholesome and other such 'good' issues
  • Cost:
    Nothing
  • Pyjama Rating:
    100% full-on pyjama zone!

Categories: Actions, Advocacy, Miscellaneous, Miscellaneous

Find out more about   The Goodworks Network

EFF – Protecting Digital Rights

  • Time taken:
    1 minute to sign a petition or send an email
  • Impact:
    Contributes to righting the wrongs of bad legislation concerning digital rights
  • Cost:
    Nothing
  • Pyjama Rating:
    100% full-on pyjama zone!

Categories: Actions, Advocacy, Miscellaneous, Miscellaneous

Find out more about   EFF – Protecting Digital Rights

StopBigMedia – Defending Media Consolidation

  • Time taken:
    1 minute to sign a petition
  • Impact:
    Fighting against corporate media giants who are silencing diverse voices, abandoning quality journalism and eliminating local content
  • Cost:
    Nothing
  • Pyjama Rating:
    100% full-on pyjama zone!

Categories: Actions, Advocacy, Country, Miscellaneous, Miscellaneous, North America, United States

Find out more about   StopBigMedia – Defending Media Consolidation