Next Monthly Meeting – this Thursday

The next main meeting is the coming Thursday (11th March) at 7:30pm at Wragge & Co, 55 Colmore Row, Birmingham, B3 2AS which is a firm of solicitors opposite St Philips cathedral in the city centre.The main focus in our monthly meetings is on campaign actions and events planning, as well as trying to learn [...]

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Business Meeting (note change of day)

This is to let you know of a small change of date for our next business meeting. Instead of the usual first Thursday of the month, the next meeting will be on WEDNESDAY 3rd March (ie, next Wednesday) at 7:30pm at the Co-Operative’s floor of the Birmingham and Midlands Institute, Room 10. The BMI is [...]

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Monthly meeting this Thursday, 7:30pm at Wragge & Co, Colmore Row.

Amongst other things, we’ll be doing some work on gay rights in preparation for Pride in May. Jon has kindly put some resources together for us, check the  ”Gender, sexuality, equality” section of our wiki/library: do take a look at some of these links if you can before Thursday (or even after!)  There’s an official AI [...]

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Come rain or shine…

So, despite the rain there was an excellent turnout for Thursday’s meeting, and great to see lots of new faces – a warm welcome to you all, and to returning members as well. We kicked off with a very informative talk from John Boyle from the Co-operative movement, sharing their history and current activities.  It [...]

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October Meeting: DRC Speaker

Just a reminder that our monthly meeting is this Thursday (8th Oct) at 7.30pm, Wragg & Co., Colmore Row, Birmingham. Cathryn Townsend, Amnesty UK’s country co-ordinator for DR Congo is coming to talk to us – she’s recently visted the country, so I’m really looking forward to hearing from her.  For anyone who’s interested, we’re [...]

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Pre-meetings

Last year I introduced pre-meetings for new members to come along and find out more about us before our main meeting. It has been quite successful but due to the nature of our next few meetings, we have made an executive decision to suspend our ‘pre-meetings’ until January 2010. We would like to encourage new [...]

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Burma Action Planning Committee Meeting

The first meeting of the planning committee for the Burma Action will be at 7:30pm on Monday 8th June at the Coffee Lounge, Stephenson Street, Central Birmingham. Please let Josey know via e-mail if you will be attending: joseywilliams@hotmail.co.uk

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Speaker: Iranian Minorities Human Rights Organisation

Charlotte, our excellent new Chair, whizzed us through the main Amnesty business so that our guest had enough time to speak – and we were certainly privy to a really thought-provoking presentation. John Vashahi from the Iranian Minorities Human Rights Organisation (IMHRO), talked about the geography of Iran in order to demonstrate the dispersion of [...]

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Monthly Meeting and Speaker: Iranian Minorities Human Rights Organisation

Our next monthly meeting is this Thursday (14th May) 7:30pm at Wragge and Co, Colmore Row. Usual business will be more like speed-meeting, all complete in half an hour with a firm hand from our great new chair – as we have a speaker: John Vashahi from the Iranian Minorities Human Rights Organisation (IMHRO) The [...]

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Formal Meeting 9th April 2009: Headlines

These are just some headlines from what was a very positive and lively meeting – minutes will be formally distributed later by the new chair (see below). Indeed, on that note, I think it’s fantastic news that roles were (finally) filled, and with some REALLY great people, as follows: Chair – Charlotte Vice Chair – [...]

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