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Advent Calendar Jacqui Fernie

"There are many ways to have an ethical, green, or sustainable Christmas. If there was one thing you would want people to do every day as well, what would it be?"

"There are many ways to have an ethical, green, or sustainable Christmas. If there was one thing you would want people to do every day as well, what would it be?"

Jacqui Fernie read Theology at the University of Glasgow and is the Assistant Registrar (Quality) of Glasgow School of Art. She has been a member of Amnesty International for 20 years, and is Secretary to the Glasgow South Group, as well as being a parliamentary lobbyist. Back to the NJfC Advent Calendar	Andy Williams sung "It's the most wonderful time of the year" and he's right: the fairy lights, carolling, self-gifting, "he's behind you ... Oh no he isn't"; I love Christmas. One Christmas tradition in our house is sitting down as a family to watch the best ever adaptation of Dickens's A Christmas Carol - by the Muppets. You won't find a better version. It is so adorably cute. At it's heart is the true spirit of Christmas: love and hope, embodied in the song 'It feels like Christmas': "where ever you find love it feels like Christmas" Each year, Amnesty International run a greetings cards campaign. It's a simple, send a card with a message of hope and solidarity to those in danger, persecuted or wrongly imprisoned, ordinary people and human rights defenders threatened because of their work. The cards offer hope to people in desperate situations. It says you're not alone, people around the world stand with you in your fight. Last year we sent cards of support to WOZA (Women of Zimbabwe Arise), whose members are being beaten and imprisoned by the disastrous Mugabe regime. One of the leaders, Jenni Williams, told Amnesty how important it is for them to have support from people. She said, 'That's what makes us brave enough to do the work that we are doing...it's important for you to keep (writing) your letters... and it's important for you to tell people so that we are not alone.' Why not come and join our group's greeting card campaign at the Gallery of Modern Art in Glasgow on the afternoon of Sunday 11 January. And the one thing I'd like people to do everyday as well? To quote the Muppets again "It is the season of the spirit. The message, if you hear it, is to make it last all year."

Jacqui Fernie read Theology at the University of Glasgow and is the Assistant Registrar (Quality) of Glasgow School of Art. She has been a member of Amnesty International for 20 years, and is Secretary to the Glasgow South Group, as well as being a parliamentary lobbyist.

Back to the NJfC Advent
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Andy Williams sung "It's the most wonderful time of the year" and he's right: the fairy lights, carolling, self-gifting, "he's behind you ... Oh no he isn't"; I love Christmas.

One Christmas tradition in our house is sitting down as a family to watch the best ever adaptation of Dickens's A Christmas Carol - by the Muppets. You won't find a better version. It is so adorably cute. At it's heart is the true spirit of Christmas: love and hope, embodied in the song 'It feels like Christmas': "where ever you find love it feels like Christmas"

Each year, Amnesty International run a greetings cards campaign. It's a simple, send a card with a message of hope and solidarity to those in danger, persecuted or wrongly imprisoned, ordinary people and human rights defenders threatened because of their work. The cards offer hope to people in desperate situations. It says you're not alone, people around the world stand with you in your fight. Last year we sent cards of support to WOZA (Women of Zimbabwe Arise), whose members are being beaten and imprisoned by the disastrous Mugabe regime. One of the leaders, Jenni Williams, told Amnesty how important it is for them to have support from people. She said, 'That's what makes us brave enough to do the work that we are doing...it's important for you to keep (writing) your letters... and it's important for you to tell people so that we are not alone.' Why not come and join our group's greeting card campaign at the Gallery of Modern Art in Glasgow on the afternoon of Sunday 11 January.

And the one thing I'd like people to do everyday as well? To quote the Muppets again "It is the season of the spirit. The message, if you hear it, is to make it last all year."

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