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Help Our Air, Our City clean up Bristol's air

We urgently need to raise £2928 for a billboard and poster campaign during the lead up to local elections in Bristol on 6th May.   Our campaign will demand that the candidates commit to taking action to clean up our dirty air.     The billboards and large posters will be up for two weeks from 19th April.  This appeal is urgent because to be sure that we can take the advertising spaces that we have booked  we need this money by the beginning of April 2021. 

These are the billboard and poster designs that we will use: 

Why is our campaign urgent?

Dirty air in Bristol kills 300 people a year , and thousands more suffer ill health such as asthma, increased risk of heart disease and Covid 19 as a result of pollution.  Low income and BAME families are more likely to live in areas of high pollution which is a major contributor towards health inequality.  Our council is responsible for cleaning up our air and has known of these health dangers for 20 years but has taken no effective action.

The local elections are when we can put maximum pressure on candidates to make air pollution a key election issue and demand that they commit to taking action. Our past experience is that without continued pressure to act our politicians will end up doing nothing.  


 Our Air, Our City 

Our Air Our City  is a group of volunteers who came together last summer to demand healthy air for Bristol. We have held public forums attended by over 35 community and environmental groups and from this have formed a steering group . We are led by the communities that are most effected by air pollution in Bristol and we believe that air pollution is a health, social justice and environmental crisis.


Our campaign

Despite the seriousness of our air pollution, most people in Bristol are not aware of the issues, so we will make sure that the truth about our dirty is no longer hidden.  Bristol is a multicultural city so the billboards and poster will have their messages in the most frequently used languages in this city.

In January 2021, local artists were invited to send us designs for billboard & posters and we received 48 images. From these we chose the designs which we will use.   A local advertising company has offered us a half price deal for 8 billboards (48 sheet) and 34 posters (60 X 40 in) in prominent places around the center of  Bristol for two weeks, for a cost of £2,928.

    
Thank you SO MUCH for reading my request for help.  The people of Bristol will be SO GRATEFUL if you can donate to support  this campaign.   It could mean the end to decades of poisonous air resulting in ill health and death for thousands of people over the years.  



Some more information: 


What success looks like to us?

Our Air, Our City has led several campaigns to press for action on clean air from our council.  Our recent open letter  to Bristol's Mayor listed our objectives which are:

- To see that Bristol City Council, West of England Combined Authority and all Mayoral candidates for both authorities prioritize Bristol reaching WHO recommended outdoor air quality guidelines by May 2022 and share with citizens their plans for doing so.

- To insist that all possible means of achieving legal air are put on the table, including support for active travel, improvements to public transport and CAZ proposals, and that in considering them the differing needs of all communities in the city are taken into account.

 -To oblige all public Bristol institutions, including schools, media and medical bodies, to educate the people of Bristol about the impact of air pollution on their health, communities and environment.

- For the people of Bristol to be included in the creation and execution of all plans for achieving the above demands.


The Our Air Our City Steering Group, is made up of representatives from:

Black and Green Ambassadors  
African Voices Forum
Bristol Youth Strike 4 Climate
Cotham Garden Primary School
Extinction Rebellion Bristol and Youth
Medact
Stop the Maangamizi: We Charge Genocide/Ecocide!

We are also supported by over 30 other community and environmental groups 

Our website

Organizer

Nigel Shipley
Organizer

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