Divest West Midlands Pension Fund (WMPF) Update
We have been busy working on the campaign: October 2016 found us outside Birmingham Cathedral, collecting signatures in costumes –courtesy of BFOE volunteers. We also headed off to the Fossil Free Network Gathering .This was an inspiring weekend with lots of support...What is Personal Divestment?
Birmingham Friends of the Earth are supporting a campaign to get the West Midlands Pension Fund to divest from fossil fuels. This got us thinking about how individuals divest. There are a number of organisations and websites with information about how to divest...
Divestment Campaign Update
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...Just another reason to End Coal Now
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...
