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Nationwide days of hope in the fightback against austerity
BOB ORAM reports on the phenomenal We Shall Overcome music events next weekend from Cornwall to the north of Scotland

TWO weeks before last May’s election the Trussell Trust — one of the largest foodbank operators in Britain — released figures showing that over one million people received at least three days emergency food in the year from April 2014 to March 2015.

It was a staggering increase on the 61,000 who claimed from them in the first year of the Con Dem coalition government and, like many, I asked myself the question of how this can be happening in the sixth richest country on the planet.

I wasn’t alone. A week after the election, a group of musicians simply weren’t prepared to sit around and do nothing.

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