Campaigns

Ending the Playstation Mentality

A SPEAK banner from the protests against the DSEi arms fair in 2011
Submitted 11 years 3 months ago by Andy.
Remember the blue 'Dehumanising Destruction' drones Pray & post card? Well the recent increase in media and parliamentary attention towards drones are the fruit of SPEAK's campaign for greater transparency in this area, so a reason to be thankful! Yet our work is for from over, as Fellowship of Reconciliation's Jessica Dalton-Cheetham explains for us here...
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The Food Sovereignty debate continues

Submitted 11 years 3 months ago by Andy.
We're currently creating a new SPEAK campaign on agribusiness to launch at Soundcheck 2013. In order to do so, we've created a working paper on Food Sovereignty open to the whole network to discuss. One response is posted here...
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Flower Model is coming...

Submitted 11 years 5 months ago by Matthew.
Twice a year, members of the SPEAK Network come together to dream dreams, plan plans and look to the future of the network. We call it 'Flower Model' because we want to function like a single organism, drawing strength and life from all of the constituent parts. If you'd like to get more involved in planning and growing the network, join us 17th to 18th November, at Desmond Tutu House in Bradford.
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The Ministry of Defence write back...

Submitted 11 years 5 months ago by Andy.
Remember the blue 'Dehumanising Destruction' Pray & Post card? After handing another batch into 10 Downing Street, the Ministry of Defence have given us a response.
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SQUEEZED: Speak Up for Underpaid Farmers!

A tea-picker in Kerugoya, Kenya
Submitted 11 years 6 months ago by Andy.
The new SPEAK pray & post card is out today! It calls for justice in our food supply chains by asking Parliament that the upcoming Groceries Code Adjudicator has the power to fine from day one. What this would basically do is force our powerful UK supermarkets to treat their suppliers fairly - applying to both farmers here and abroad.
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A prayer for West Papua

Submitted 11 years 10 months ago by Hannah.
On Thursday 14th June, Indonesian police gunned down Mako Tabuni, secretary-general of the KNPB (West Papua National Committee); triggering violent riots in Jayapura. Hannah Kitchen, a member of Edinburgh SPEAK group (long supporters of the Free West Papua Campaign) has written a short prayer for us to reflect on the chaos:
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Flower Model - April 2012

Submitted 11 years 10 months ago by Matthew.
Last month, 25 people from across the Network gathered in Bethnal Green to discuss ideas, imagine new ones and pray, eat and hang out together...
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What happened next: in dialogue with Shell

Submitted 11 years 11 months ago by Andy.
At the end of February, SPEAK's Day of Action 2012 featured a demonstration outside Shell's London Headquarters in Waterloo to draw attention to the company's so far unmet responsibility to clean up extensive oil pollution in the Niger Delta.
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Arrange to meet your MP

Submitted 12 years 4 months ago by Tom.
Even if you didn't come to the Day of Action 2012 you can still arrange to meet your MP back home.
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