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Pressure Groups
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Get heard! Even if you do not want to join a political party, you can still have an effect on what political parties do. So how?
* A group of people who care about the same issue can get together and make a pressure group.
* Pressure groups try to get political parties to support their ideas. They do this by running a campaign about one issue or a few related issues.
Here are two examples of real pressure groups:
Greenpeace: Concerned with a wide range of environmental issues including global warming and genetic engineering.
www.greenpeace.org
Liberty: Concerned with protecting human rights and civil liberties and issues such as young people and asylum.
www.liberty-human-rights.org.uk
Top Tip: Why not decide what you are interested in and then see what existing pressure groups are doing to change things to get some ideas?
Make Poverty History is a pressure groups that puts pressure on governments to make changes that will help eradicate poverty around the globe. You may remember their Live 8 concert a few years back. This was one of their campaign videos: