H4BW now has 575 contacts who get these occasional updates via the BHA website and 150+ members of our Facebook page – do join in the discussions and news-sharing at https://www.facebook.com/groups/humanists4abetterworld/ – while those of you on Twitter can join our 180 followers at https://twitter.com/humanists4bw.
The H4BW banner was seen at the Climate Chaos march at the end of 2
015, and a few of us made it to the Anti-Trident demo last month, though walking with other groups.
There are not many calls to action at the moment, you may be pleased to hear, but here are a couple, followed by some updates and info from campaigns supported by the BHA and H4BW.
From Oxfam, a very topical request on tax havens: “This May, David Cameron is hosting a global Anti Corruption Summit in London. It’s the perfect moment to get tough on tax dodging – and your MP can help. Contact your MP via https://act.oxfam.org/great-britain/tell-your-mp-to-end-the-era-of-tax-havens?sid=2016-03-17_fb_bounceback-share&utm_source=oxf.am&utm_medium=ZhV6&utm_content=redirect
And there’s a petition to “Tell David Cameron and EU leaders: We must support refugees seeking safety and a better life” that you can sign at http://www.thepetitionsite.com/en-gb/takeaction/520/201/796/?taf_id=23563561&cid=fb_na#
For teachers from The Climate Coalition, there’s a free TCC resource pack and letter-writing competition (deadline 29 April) for KS2 pupils at http://fortheloveof.org.uk/wishes-for-our-world-free-teaching-resource/
And while thinking about climate change, on the left is an interesting info-graphic, aimed at countering some of the misinformation circulated by climate change deniers
Slavery was abolished in the UK in 1834 after a long and complicated struggle, with plenty of opposition from slave-owners, slave-traders and the House of Lords – there’s a fascinating time-line at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abolition_of_slavery_timeline. But though globally condemned today, it still exists in various modern forms – see http://www.antislavery.org/english/slavery_today/default.aspx
The latest from the Jubilee Debt Campaign can be read at http://jubileedebt.org.uk/news.
And there’s news from the Uganda Humanist Schools Trust at http://www.ugandahumanistschoolstrust.org/latest-news/
Global Justice Now – you may also be interested in GJN’s various campaigns on trade, aid. refugees and migrants, agro-ecology… It’s worth finding out more at http://www.globaljustice.org.uk/