Category: Action

  • Take Action to Make our Food Sustainable

    Pop into the Hub to take action for sustainable food: The Bad News: Our current food system is geared towards factory farming, which tries to get maximum food from minimum land-space.  This approach is causing problems of diease control amongst animals, poor animal welfare, wasting of resources and environmental damage.  Not only is the UK…

  • Share the Surplus

    As part of our Grub’s Up! theme, we are bringing together local allotment growers with charitable organisations in Birmingham: Share the Surplus Allotments are a great example of sustainable food in practice, with local people using spaceto grow simple food for themselves and their friends and family to enjoy.  But it’s the nature of many…

  • Keep taking action for Refugees & Asylum Seekers

    Refugee Week is over, but there are still plenty of opportunities to celebrate the contribution that refugees make, and take action to make Brum a welcoming city. Our ‘Be the Friendly Face of Brum’ theme continues for another two weeks – so you’ve got plenty of time to pop in, take our Big Asylum Quiz,…

  • Seeking safety across the treacherous Mediterranean

    Asylum has hit the headlines in recent months, due to the tragic deaths of people trying to cross the Mediterranean in search of safety. This follows decisions by the European Union to scale back search-and-rescue operations for people caught in treacherous conditions, trying to make this crossing.  The justification for stopping this humanitarian service, is…

  • Be the Friendly Face of Brum

    Peace Hub is celebrating Birmingham as a welcoming city, proud to be a place of safety – and you can join the call to make Brum a City of Sanctuary! Asylum seekers are fleeing from persecution in their home country, and come to Britain to ask for safety.  At Peace Hub, we want to show…

  • Stand Up for the Right to Refuse to Kill

    Ha Hyeong hwan and Kim Seong min were imprisoned for 18 months in May 2014 for refusal to undertake compulsory military service in South Korea. Pop into Peace Hub to send a solidarity message to Hyeong and Seong —your words will give them hope during tough times. Conscription in South Korea All South Korean men…

  • Equality Week – Letter Writing for the Living Wage

    6th-15th March is Quaker Equality Week, when Quakers across the country will be joining with others to act for equality.  You are warmly invited to join Peace Hub’s contribution to Equality Week: Letter Writing Workshop: The Living Wage 11:00 – 14:30 Wednesday 11th March 2015 at Peace Hub, 41 Bull St, B4 6AF The Living…

  • Keep Taking Action Against Arms

    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…

  • Arms Trade Action now Online

    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…