Pressure Groups Media Clips

What are pressure groups?

Pressure Groups in 3 minutes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QtTaKo9efY

What are pressure groups?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYvXm6GBNqM

Methods and tactics of Pressure Groups

Pressure Groups as an influence on parliament
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8z_zos7XYY

Success of pressure groups

Lego, the world’s biggest toymaker, is to end its partnership with Shell following a Greenpeace campaign. The environmental pressure group mounted a sustained protest over the oil giant’s plans to drill in the Arctic, urging Lego to end its long-running relationship with the company.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/news

Gurkhas win UK settlement rights
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8061509.stm

When Surfers Against Sewage first took to the waves – and airwaves – in 1990, they were dismissed as meddling hippies, and a threat to Cornwall’s tourism. Twenty years on, even the Queen has celebrated their success in cleaning up hundreds of miles of coastline…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5pN-Lbzuks

Anti-Tory and anti-austerity protests outside Downing Street have a limited impact
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLvuWjwMa_s

Plane Stupid
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TASM_oTi4es

Benefits Cap: Single mothers lose court challenge
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ibv7Fxk060

Case Studies of Pressure Groups

Amnesty International
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edD87WazW1A

Shelter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGmpQDalu6Y

Fathers for justice
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88OlCObD9nc

Greenpeace
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JniWdP0MO7s

Animal Liberation Front
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJjvEZNqt7Q