{"id":521,"date":"2013-08-27T21:45:07","date_gmt":"2013-08-27T20:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uncharted-worlds.org\/blog\/?p=521"},"modified":"2013-08-28T08:05:46","modified_gmt":"2013-08-28T07:05:46","slug":"protecting-campaigning-organisations-from-new-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uncharted-worlds.org\/blog\/2013\/08\/protecting-campaigning-organisations-from-new-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Protecting campaigning organisations from a new limiting law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What I just wrote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dear Chloe Smith MP<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m writing to express my concern about the &#8220;Transparency of Lobbying, Non-Party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Bill&#8221;, and how it would affect organisations such as &#8220;38 degrees&#8221;.  The media has such a big effect on what people are thinking about at election time, it&#8217;s important to have routes into that conversation for ordinary people with not much time to spare.  Please reconsider that bit of the Bill.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For background: <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thirdsector.co.uk\/Policy_and_Politics\/article\/1207867\/lobbying-bill-will-hinder-charity-campaigning-fundraising-ncvo-warns\/\">Lobbying bill will hinder charity campaigning and fundraising, NCVO warns<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.civilsociety.co.uk\/governance\/news\/content\/15918\/charity_lawyer_warns_new_lobbying_bill_poses_existential_threat_to_charity_campaigning\">Charity lawyer warns new lobbying bill poses &#8216;existential threat to charity campaigning&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Those articles refer to charities, and I&#8217;m not actually sure off the top of my head whether 38 Degrees is a charity, but it would affect them, and presumably also Avaaz and (if they spend enough) AllOut, etc.  I&nbsp;don&#8217;t want those organisations squashed!  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/secure.38degrees.org.uk\/lobbying-bill\">A handy place for writing your own letter about it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(Sorry, still haven&#8217;t fixed the broken commenting here!  Haven&#8217;t forgotten&#8230;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A short letter to Chloe Smith MP (sent as part of a 38 Degrees campaign), and some context.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncharted-worlds.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncharted-worlds.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncharted-worlds.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncharted-worlds.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncharted-worlds.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=521"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncharted-worlds.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":532,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncharted-worlds.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521\/revisions\/532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncharted-worlds.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncharted-worlds.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncharted-worlds.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}