This month and in January, the EU member states may throw out over two years’ work on creating better product standards for appliances and electronics. We need to pressure the UK to support our right to repair.
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Community updates
Our latest exciting announcements, opportunities and tips We appeared this week on BBC Breakfast, talking about the importance of repair. Here is a summary of what we do and why repair is so crucial to fix our throw-away economy. On Saturday in Manchester, 59 community repair activists from all over the UK got together to mingle, share, help each other out and think collectively about growing our movement and bringing down the barriers to repair and longer-lasting products. We’re urgently mobilising to save the crucial, pro-Right-to-Repair measures in the European Commission’s “Circular Economy Package”. We stand to lose over two years’ work on creating better product standards for longer-lasting appliances and electronics. After summer holidays in August, we are back on Restart Radio. We now have a new slot with Resonance 104.4FM at 5pm on the second Tuesday of each month. We will also keep producing a monthly podcast with Dave Pickering, which will be published on our website. Restarters.net combines our tool for organising events and measuring their impact (AKA the Fixometer) with our wiki and a new discussion forum. This is the first global space for fixer volunteers to join with event hosts, and spread community repair. We’re offering way more to volunteers than just our “Fixometer” which is becoming the engine driving a much larger online platform. Read about what we have in the works, for public beta release later in July. Designer Forrest Radford, who attended a Restart Party while a student five years ago, is now launching a repair-related Kickstarter campaign. He remembers “In less than an hour David had shown me the dusty guts of my Mac, we cleaned it out and put it back together; it booted like new.” 
Fixing our throw-away economy
Inspired and energised from Fixfest UK
Urgent Right to Repair mobilisation in Europe
Announcing our new radio season
Fixers and organisers, time to join our platform
Exciting new online developments to grow activity offline
Guest post: How cleaning the dusty guts of my laptop changed my life