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Asylum: We need to debate using facts, not fiction
Over the coming weeks Richard, one of our volunteers, will be uncovering the facts about asylum seekers & refugees. Today he explores why it’s so important to understand what’s really going on: “Martin Luther King once said that “a great nation is a compassionate nation”. A poll conducted by YouGov in June 2014 suggests the…
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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…
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Keep Taking Action for Conscientious Objectors
We have almost reached the end of our focus on Conscientious Objectors at Peace Hub, but there are still plenty of ways to get involved and take action on this issue. 15th May is International Conscientious Objectors Day – there are events happening across the country, and around the world, including a Quaker Meeting for…
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Arms Trade: the Foreign Office Responds
At the end of last year, Peace Hub ’embargoed’ a giant arms export license and members of the public signed a petition calling for an arms embargo to Egypt and other countries where UK arms could be used for repression. Now the Foriegn Office has responded – with some steps in the right direction, and…
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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…
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Refusing to Kill – Working for Peace
We are pleased to announce Peace Hub’s peace & justice theme for March and April: Conscientious Objection: Then & Now Refusing to Kill – Working for Peace Along with other pacifists, many Quakers refused to fight in WWI when conscription began in 1916. Some took ‘non-combative’ roles, such as the Friends Ambulance Unit. Others were…
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Keep Taking Action for Fairtrade
Fairtrade Fortnight 2015 has finished, and so has Peace Hub’s Fairtrade theme, as we move on to our new theme of Conscientious Objectors. But there are plenty of ways to keep active for Fairtrade: including at Peace Hub! We’re are delighted to announce that we will contiunue to stock Fairtrade snacks from Carrs Lane Fairtrade…
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Official Launch a Success!
Thanks to everyone who attended our Official Launch yesterday! Here’s how it went: On Thursday 26th February Central England Quakers celebrated the opening of Peace Hub with a special all-day launch event. School-children and the public joined with local figures, to celebrate with a Fairtrade cuppa and a slice of cake. In the evening NGOs…
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Official Launch Celebration – 26th Feb
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…
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Fairtrade Crafts & Snacks now Available!
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…