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Remember: many of today’s high-profile campaigns began at the grassroots
Cleaners and civil servants protest outside the Foreign Office, 2013

THINK back to recent campaigns such as miscarriages of justice, the living wage campaign, the anti-road expansion and peace protests.

All began in the margins. The people and institutions in the centre ground simply did not want to hear.

On miscarriages of justice, friends and family of those convicted in big cases like the Birmingham Six and Guildford Four campaigned to get their voices heard. 

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