How People Can Bring About Change in a Democracy

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The System of democracy gives citizens the right to challenge government. People are able to speak out against policies, organize protest and go to court for their cause. The ' Surfers Against Sewage' organization showed that there were four aspects to bringing about change. Firstly, get passionate about change. Secondly, get support about the cause. Thirdly, get legal go to court with a test case to set a legal precedent and finally, get success to bring about change. The first step of bringing about change in a democracy is to get passionate. In 1989, people in UK were enjoying their relaxation time in local beaches such as St. Agnes, Chapel Porth and etc. At that time surfing was a favorite sports amongst British people and then that's when the problem started. One of the Water company called 'West Water Limited' pumped raw sewage to the ocean without treatment. Then those who were in the water literally got sick and majority of those were surfers. All of those people are 80% likely to contact diseases such as eye, ear, gastric infection, hepatitis and diarrhea etc. But 90% of those surfers are likely to get Astro virus. Soon after the infection of diseases and viruses, people started researching about the raw sewage and then they discovered that the raw sewage is way too contagious for people. So the surfers decided to get to the bottom of this issue to show that they are passionate about surfing and the cleanliness of the environment as well. The second step of bringing about change in a democracy is to get support and that's what the surfers did. They formed a organization which will be famously known as “Surfers Against Sewage” or S.A.S for short led by founding member, Chris Hines. Firstly, there are only a few members in the S.A.S but ten years after, it rose rapidly up to 28 thousand members. They first did meetings and discussing the issue then

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