Encouraging Action for Peace
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 […]
Happy New Year! We are back open and look forward to welcoming you to the Hub. If you’re in a post-Christmas slump, or feeling the back-to-work blues, why not cheer yourself up by popping into Peace Hub to help make the world a brighter place. You can sign our letters to Tesco & Asda asking […]
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 […]
Free Children’s Activity: Make your own Dove of Peace decoration. Pop into the Hub between 11:00 and 14:30 from now until the 23rd December to make your own Dove of Peaced decoration. A great chance to keep the kids entertained in the middle of a Christmas shopping trip (and you can get a cuppa at […]
We’re getting in the festive spirit here at Peace Hub! You’ve got until 2:30 on Tuesday 23rd December to take part in our simple action against the arms trade. So why not drop in, get a cuppa and help make the world a better place.
It’s the season of goodwill-to-all and peace-on-Earth! Peace Hub wil be open in the run up to Christmas, so you’ve still got plenty of time to pop in whilst doing your Christmas shopping and take action for peace and justice. Then we’ll be taking a break from 24th Dec to 4th Jan and reopening on […]
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 […]