Manchester Friends of the Earth is an award-winning environmental campaign group working on causes relating to the environment and to social justice. They campaign on issues with a local connection, and also lobby for policy changes at the local, regional, national and international levels. They work on a diverse range of topics including climate change, corporate responsibility, real food, trade justice, sustainable transport & aviation and waste & recycling. The group consists entirely of volunteers, and the campaigns are funded entirely by membership, individual donations and charitable grants. Manchester FoE is part of a national network of local groups who are affiliated to Friends of the Earth (EWNI) (England, Wales and Northern Ireland).
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“The [nineteenth-century] young men who were Puritans in politics were anti-Puritans in literature. They were willing to die for the independence of Poland or the Manchester Fenians; and they relaxed their tension by voluptuous reading in Swinburne.”
—Rebecca West (1892–1983)
“It is possible to make friends with our children—but probably not while they are children.... Friendship is a relationship of mutual dependence-interdependence. A family is a relationship in which some of the participants are dependent on others. It is the job of parents to provide for their children. It is not appropriate for adults to enter into parenthood recognizing they have made a decision to accept dependents and then try to pretend that their children are not dependent on them.”
—Donald C. Medeiros (20th century)
“The earth is the earth as a peasant sees it, the world is the world as a duchess sees it, and anyway a duchess would be nothing if the earth was not there as the peasant sees it.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)