by Molly Luke | Jun 29, 2018 | Air Quality, Blog, Blog
It’s been a couple months since Councillor John Cotton handed our petition for a city wide Clean Air Zone to full council, and from the outside it may look like the air pollution campaign has gone a bit quiet. It’s true that in the run up to any local election,...
by Molly Luke | Mar 12, 2018 | Blog
Packed into the tiny hexagon theatre at the MAC Birmingham, I had no idea what to expect from the sold out performance of ‘Rocking the Wire’, a theatre production based on the experiences of women from Birmingham at the Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp. The...
by Molly Luke | Dec 8, 2017 | Air Quality, Blog, Blog, Energy And Climate Change, Transport
On the 14th October, Friends of the Earth held an international day of action for the climate, where we invited FOE groups across the world to get creative and come together for a day of climate events, actions and mobilisations. The aim was to use powerful climate...
by Molly Luke | Aug 25, 2016 | Blog, Blog, Divest WMPF, Energy And Climate Change
If you haven’t heard of Divest WMPF, we are campaigning for divestment action here in our region by asking the West Midlands Pension Fund to freeze their investments in fossil fuels and reinvest the money in renewable energy. It’s a big task, but we are...
by Molly Luke | Apr 18, 2016 | Blog, Divest WMPF, Energy And Climate Change
This May bank holiday weekend, Reclaim the Power are going to South Wales to shut down the UK’s largest opencast coal mine, Ffos-y-Fran. With only a few weeks until the End Coal Now mass action camp, Anne from the Coal Action Network came to Birmingham to give...
