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Coming Jan 16: Time to Bin Trident
A sneak preview of out peace & justice theme for Jan & Feb 2016: Time to Bin Trident Let’s spend £100 billion on health, housing & renewables: not nuclear weapons. In early 2016, parliament will vote on whether to renew the Trident system of nuclear weapons. Costing over £100 billion across 40 years, it will…
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It’s our 1st Birthday!
One year ago today, Peace Hub first opened it’s doors to the public. It’s been a busy year, full of awareness raising and taking action for peace & justice. Over the course of our first year, we’ve: Challenged the arms trade, lobbying the foreign secretary to embargo arms to Egypt and other repressive regimes. Supported…
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Coming Soon: Love, Equality & Money
We’re pleased to announce that our peace & justice theme for September & October 2015 will be: Love, Equality & Money Let’s make our Economy more Equal More equal societies do better at the things we really care about: health, education, quality of life. Approaching economics with a spirit of love, compassion and equality benefits…
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For Better & for Worse: International Agreements on Food
There are two major international agreements being negotiated at the moment, that the UK is part of: the Transatlantic Trade & Investment Partnership and the Sustainable Development Goals. Both are wide ranging, and cover several important issues that you might want to take action on. But here we’ll focus on the aspects that relate to…
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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…
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Grub’s Up!
We’re pleased to announce that our peace & justice theme for July & August is: Grub’s Up! Making our Food Sustainable Factory farming is damaging our health and environment, increasing inequality and harming animals. But by supporting a small-scale, sustainable approach to farming, we can have fair, affordable food for everyone. Pop into Peace Hub…
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Compassion vs Scapegoating
We’ve recently recieved a circular email highlighting the low state pension, and laudibly calling for it to be raised, but sadly blaming the situation on refugees. It’s a timely example of the negative attitudes and misconceptions faced by asylum seekers and refugees. People are understandably worried about pensioner poverty, just as they are about jobs,…
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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,…
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Refugee Week 15-21 June
Refugee week begins this coming Monday – and there are lots of ways to get involved! Refugee Week happens across the UK every June: throughout the week there are arts, cultural and educational events and activities that celebrate the contribution of refugees to the UK and promote better understanding of why people seek sanctuary. There…
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The floodgates are open…or are they?
In the second of his artcles looking at asylum & refugee issues, our volunteer Richard looks behind the headlines, to find the true facts & figures. “The last few years have seen major conflict and humanitarian crises take place across the world, from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan to the Central African Republic and Darfur. As…