At Peace Hub we hope that you had a happy and peaceful time over the festive period, and that the new year has begun well for you.
For us, 2025 marks the beginning of a new chapter, as we start bringing our work encouraging action for peace out into Birmingham’s communities. We have two exciting events coming up this spring in central Birmingham and will be sharing more events (including online and around the city) in the coming months. We’re also supporting other events this month in Birmingham and Walsall.
Our coordinator Pete is now back in the office, and can be contacted as usual.
Supporting Local Peace Actions
As part of our new way of working, we’ll have more flexibility to support public actions:
Beginning this Saturday (11th January) with Stop Banking on Injustice – meet 11am outside Barclay’s Bank, Birmingham High St (or 10:30am in Pigeon Park for a pre-protest bike ride). Activists for peace and climate justice will join together to continue keeping up the pressure to end Barclays’ complicity in Israel’s genocide and its unrestrained financing of the world’s most polluting companies.
There will also be support for Peaceful Arms Trade Resistance in Walsall 20th-22nd January. On 1st November 2023 six people disrupted the SDSC-UK Arms Fair by chaining themselves to the gates of the Telford International Centre. As they face trial, we are invited to support them in-person at the Court (2 or 3 hours is appreciated) and demonstrate that people in the Midlands do not support the making or trading of arms that torture, maim or kill.
Peace Hub 10th Anniversary Relaunch
The Hub opened our doors in November 2014, and held our ‘official launch’ event on 26th February 2015.
So, to celebrate all that we’ve done together over the past 10 years, and ‘officially relaunch’ our new model of working, we’ll be holding a celebratory event on the evening of Wednesday 26th February at the Priory Rooms on Bull St, Birmingham.
Save the date, more details coming soon.
Changemakers Forum
Together with the Ella Baker School of Organising, we will be introducing a new book Changemakers, radical strategies for social justice organising by Jane Holgate and John Page.
Join us on Thursday 20th March from 7pm at the Priory Rooms to hear from the book’s authors and meet with organisers from across different social justice movements to dig into how we become more effective Changemakers.
We will explore: key themes within the book; how those themes interact with the knowledge and experience of organisers from different social justice movements; and how we go beyond protesting to resolving wrongs.
Here’s to a hopeful 2025, encouraging action for peace!
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