Encouraging Action for Peace
Join us to Go Bananas for Fairtrade at our official launch celebration! 11:00 – 18:00 Thursday 26th February at Peace Hub, 41 Bull St, Birmingham, B4 6AF To celebrate our launch, we’re inviting the public to join us for a Fairtrade party. We’ll be open for extended hours, so pop in any time between 11 […]
Feeling peckish? Need to pick up some tea or coffee? Fancy browsing some delightful crafts? Want to support farmers and producers in developing countries at the same time? Then Peace Hub is the place to go! In partnership with our friends at Carrs Lane Fairtrade Shop we now have all these goods in the Hub […]
Wishing everyone a Peaceful Christmas and New Year. Thanks to everyone who has taken part in our action against the arms trade! Our giant ‘arms export licence’ is now well and truly covered in ‘EMBARGOED’ stamps – sending a clear message to the Foriegn and Commonwealth Office that the people of Birmingham do not want […]
From January 2015 our peace & justice theme will be: Fairtrade! We’ll have lots of information on how Fairtrade supports farmers and workers around the world, what Fairtrade products you can buy and where, and have a simple action to ask Tesco & Asda to make their bananas fair. Plus we will have some Fairtrade […]
You’ve got a few days left to pop into Peace Hub and take part in our action against arms sales to repressive regimes. But if you’ve been inspired to keep resisting the arms trade, there are many ways to stay involved in 2015. Write a letter to your MP – you can use our template […]
An interesting article by Edward Robinson was published on the New Internationalist blog last week, detailling how a recent parliamentary inquiry into Britain’s arms exports found that the criterion for embargoing arms has been relaxed in recent years. The nub of the matter is that, instead of the refusing an arms export licence where there […]
Peace Hub is calling on the UK Foreign Office to embargo arms to Egypt and other countries where arms provide support for represion. Our petition is now on Change.org: why not sign and share online now, then pop into the Hub any weekday between 11:00 and 14:30 to add your ‘EMBARGOED’ stamp to our giant […]
Peace Hub is calling on the UK Foreign Office to embargo arms sales to repressive regimes. But what about the jobs that arms manufacture creates in the UK? Does Peace Hub want these people to be left unemployed? These are common questions, and perfectly understandable in the current climate of austerity and poor job opportunities. […]
At Peace Hub we are currently focussing on the UK arms trade, particulary calling for an arms embargo to countries where arms may be used for repression. It’s easy to become cynical about what governments can do to overcome vested interests like the arms trade, but with pracrtical support, we can make a difference. In […]
Thanks to students from Queen’s Foundation, and members of Church & Peace for visiting the Hub last week. Four students from Queen’s Foundation took to Corporation Street with Peace Hub staff to encourage the public to take action against the arms trade. Braving the cold, they engaged passers by, to explain why the UK must […]