Wise Owls was the first and is still the leading representive website and support organisation for the interests of older working age people (50 - 65+) and has done so for the last 11 years. For this reason we have tried to focus on those matters that directly affect older people. However, the struggle for fairness and decency involves many people from many organisations. Together we are strong.

Therefore we want to highlight other campaigns we support. Please take a look at these vital campaigns and support where you can.

In the current economic, political and social climate we believe that it is time for our generation and for us as Wise Owls to stand up and be counted in the support of social and economic justise, fairness and equity and to defend basic civil liberties. 

This also extends to our generation supporting the younger generation who are facing debt and unemployment and trying to organise popular resistance to the power of the state who try to rob us of basic entitlements to pay for the theft by the banks, speculators, billionaires, hedge funds, multi national corporations et al. We thereore wish to promote our support and to ask for our hundreds of thousands of visitors to support the following campaigns:

At breakneck speed and despite its immense complexity, Lansley's Health & Social Care bill has been railroaded through parliament. Sign up. Lend your help.
NUS is the national voice of students helping them to campaign, get cheap student discounts and provide advice on living student life to the full.
In a nutshell, the big idea behind the Robin Hood Tax is to generate billions of pounds – hopefully even hundreds of billions of pounds. That money will fight poverty in the UK and overseas. It will tackle climate change. And it will come from fairer taxation of the financial sector.
The Counting Women In campaign is aiming for 50/50 gender representation at all levels of national, local and devolved government. We will be fighting to ensure women have an equal presence and voice in British politics.

A global culture of financial secrecy allows some unscrupulous firms to dodge tax - and rob poor countries of more than $160bn a year. Our Trace the Tax campaign is about stopping this tax dodging.
AGE is involved in an awareness-raising campaign  to attract the attention of politicians at European, national, regional and local levels on how to rethink the concept of solidarity between the generations, and on how to support civil society initiatives on intergenerational cooperation.
Changes to the Public Bodies Bill, which is currently going through Parliament, will give ministers the power to sell off 85 per cent of our forests – with no protection for public access or biodiversity.


      

In addition:

  1. Support to campaign of support for international freedeom of speach and defend the right of freedom of information represented by wikileaks and to offer all the support we can to help keep this information going out and to keep the internet free, including supporting the fight against all attempts to close down the website and to imprison/kidnap, murder the founder.
  2. To join the boycott of Amazon and other organisations who have taken off their support services/ servers for Wikileaks. For more information about the boycott click here
  3. To join the protests against the police tactics of kettling, physial attacks on demonstrators - including those last year resulting in injury and death - and indeed the infrastructure of our increasing police surveillance state
  4. Support Avaaz's campaign to get aid into the most besiged cities and towns where the Syrian Government is slaughtering its own people, and help journalists to get information and images out of the country. To find out more about the campaign, and to donate click here.