Dropping beats for Amnesty

On Saturday, (following the Burma Action) 4 of us decided to stay up past our bedtimes, and headed down to Digbeth for Drop Beats Not Bombs (an anti war clubnight that splits its profits between the Campaign Against Arms Trade, of which Amnesty is a member, and CND). It was a good night overall, generating [...]

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Books and Cakes Please!

We have a stall at the Moseley Festival on Sat 10th July, and have chosen as a theme Amnes-tea.  This means we will be selling iced tea and cakes as a way of fundraising for the group. We’ll provide the tea – we need you to provide the cakes! If you are able to make [...]

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Wythall group collection, 20th Feb

The Wythall Amnesty group have very kindly invited us to take part in a charity collection in Shirley this coming Saturday – I know that quite a few people signed up for this at the last meeting, which is great… Not quite sure about all the details of what will happen, but previous experience was [...]

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It was a dark and stormy night: Oi Oi!

It was a dark and stormy Tuesday night – and we weren’t a multitude at the Hare and Hounds for our Rock for Rights gig. Indeed, I felt so happy when one or two people walked through the door that I wanted to go over and welcome them personally; thankfully, I didn’t, as that might have seemed [...]

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Tuesday is change the world day (for musical tarts)…

Our Chair is asking what you usually do on Tuesday nights, bit of ironing? Watch telly? Or you could be out seeing four great bands for a mere £4 in advance. We’ve got Wiarwan, the only band who can rage atmospherically, followed by upbeat melancholia from Rich Mc Mahon. (Who, incidentally, has had a cartoon [...]

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Burma Action

On friday evening, I turned up at the library theatre (which, by the way, is not IN the library – and is a REALLY nice venue!) along with… well, I don’t know how many people, but the place was packed out, which is really heartening. We were treated to an excellent, informative performance of the [...]

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Big Skills Share

It’s Staurday night… and now, live from the Amnesty Big Skills Share in London… Actually, it’s the afternoon, but as I am currently taking part in a group workshop on blogs, I thought I would put up a quick post. So far the web workshop has provided me with some interesting info and ideas that [...]

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Celebrating Sanctuary: volunteers needed.

The next event in the amnesty calendar will be Celebrating Sanctuary as part of Refugee Week.  Here’s what the organisers say: The event is celebration of the UK’s tradition of offering shelter to people fleeing persecution. All our events are free and everyone is welcome. Celebrating Sanctuary is Birmingham’s main contribution to National Refugee Week, [...]

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Pride Parade this Saturday – Join Us!

Central Birmingham and Bournville Amnesty International Groups will be combining  THIS SATURDAY (23rd May) to make our presence in the Birmingham Pride Parade the best to date. We are expecting at least twenty activists to attend  – but welcome more more more in a visually striking presence to highlight abuses of LGBT rights. We will be wearing jumpsuits [...]

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MEP Hustings

Birmingham Friend’s of the Earth and the Jubilee Debt Campaign are hosting a MEP Hustings on May 14th at the Birmingham Council Chambers, which commences at 7.30pm. It will be chaired by John Nightingale (Jubliee Debt Campaign) and Joe Peacock (FoE). MEP’s being quizzed on the night are: Anthea MacIntyre (Conservative) Felicity Norman (Green) tba [...]

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