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Brum Together
Birmingham Unites Against Hate with Mass Mobilisation to London Rally. Communities and trade unions across Birmingham are mobilising for the Together Against the Far-Right demonstration in London on Saturday 28 March -showing the city’s unity in the face of rising division. Six coaches are already booked, with more expected, as groups from across the city…
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Opportunities for Action Summer 2025
Peace Hub is supporting events to take action for peace & social justice in the coming weeks. Stop SDSC We were please to be at Telford International Centre TIC earlier this month, engaging people attending a LEGO event there, to raise awareness that the SDSC arms fair takes place at the same venue. Many attendees…
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Refugee Week 2025
Refugee Week is here, running until Sunday 22nd June 2025. We’re looking forward to joining this festival celebrating the contributions, creativity and resilience of refugees and people seeking sanctuary. This year’s theme is Community as a Superpower This chimes with a lot of what we’ve been thinking about recently at Peace Hub – community and…
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Happy New Year from Peace Hub
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…
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Join us in Telford tomorrow
Peace Hub will be closed tomorrow (Weds 20th Nov) as we join in witness against the Telford arms fair – join us! We will be gathering alongside Quakers, CAAT, Extinction Rebellion, Palestine Solidarity and others in non-violent protest, starting at 11am, with a programme throughout the day until 4pm, including street theatre, drumming, speakers and…
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Can we Unite to Survive?
Our current theme at Peace Hub is all about responding to the energy & climate crises. We’re looking at initiatives at the community level, like Footsteps Energy Champions, and calling for change at national government level, with Friends of the Earth. Now a major climate action is bringing these strands together – uniting people from…
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Arms Trade: lots of ways to take action
There’s a week to go before protests against the DSEI arms fair in London. One of the largest arms fairs in the world, ‘Defence & Security Equipment International’ will feature exhibitors selling weapons from machine guns to tanks. A whole range of buyers will also be there – including Saudi Arabia, who have been invited…
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HSBC: Give up the Arms Trade for Lent
A series of vigils organised by Midlands Christian Action (MiChA) of which Peace Hub is a partner organisation. Join us outside HSBC on New St, Birmingham, this Lent for an hour-long peaceful vigil calling on HSBC to divest from the arms trade. We will open and close with some short prayers reminding us that as…
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Take Action to Stop the Arms Fair
This September, the international weapons industry is coming to the Excel Centre in London for one of the world’s biggest arms fairs: DSEI. We’ll be there to say No to arms and Yes to human rights – and you can take part. DSEI (Defence & Security Equipment International) last took place in September 2015, and…
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Our Shared Future: lots of events in Brum
Photo: Joris Louwes CC 2.0 BY 16th – 18th June 2017 is the Great Get Together, followed by Refugee Week 19th-25th June. The Great Get Together has been started in memory of Jo Cox, in the spirit of her quote “we have more in common than that which divides us.” Refugee Week has ben runing…