Current Campaigns
Our current active campaigns include Debt Justice and human rights and the Arms Trade with actions planned for 2025 and 2026
We send out regular campaign resources called Pray and Posts.
Our current main campaigns include:
Debt Justice is asking for economic justice for people impacted by debt, as well as an end to the unjust debt of countries leading to economic abuse by richer countries and international institutions.
Human Rights and Arms Trade SPEAK has been campaigning for an end to the UK government’s promotion and subsidization of the arms trade where it fuels conflict, aids oppression, and harms development. We have been campaigning on this since 2003. We have also been campaigning for the end of UK arms sales to oppressive regimes with poor human rights records, such as Saudi Arabia. We have also been campaigning for and end of DSEi Arms Fair (Defence & Security Equipment International).
In addition, we also support action for Climate Justice mainly by supporting partners and being part of various coalitions
In our campaign journey over the last 20 years we have touched on various campaign issues we share news and key info as it relates to those campaigns.
We would like to have capacity to do more especially on seeding change and permaculture in the future. If you are able to donate or volunteer/ get involved it increases our capacity to do more active campaigns.
Current Campaign Resources
We produce digital and physical resources called ‘Pray and Posts’ which give people:
- Information on situations of injustice
- A suggested Action (Often In partnership with another Charity/NGO/ Community)
- Points For Prayer/Meditation/ or Reflection
Over recent years we have distributed these resources abouta variety of subjects:
- Injustice and debt- (personal debt and majority world debt) In partnership with Jubilee Debt Campaign
- Injustice and the UK arms trade- in partnership with Campaign Against the Arms Trade (CAAT)
- Ecocide and Environmental Justice
Please read more about our Pray and Posts and how to receive them here
Please see our current Pray and Post on Debt Justice here
To read about the history of our Pray and Post campaign success here
SPEAK Campaigns Journey
SPEAK has been running campaigns since 1998 (at the time of writing 25 years).
More detailed accounts of our Campaign history are currently being compiled in our archive for more details on our campaign journey see (LINK)
Our Campaigns Include
1 Refugees and Asylum seekers rights 1998- today
2 Debt Justice 1998-today
3 Trade Justice 2001-today
Our Trade justice campaign has several sub-sections including campaigns on different trade rules
3A/ Intellectual Property patents and health
3B/ Justice in Garment Industry= Big Dress Trade Justice in Garment Industry 2001-2012
4/ Corporate Social Responsibility (Core) 2002-today
6/Climate Justice 2002- today
6/ Arms Trade and Human Rights 2003-today
7/ Seeding Change 2011-today- (Justice, Food justice agriculture, no land grabs, seed protection, and permaculture).
*To read about the history of our campaign success here (LINK)
Some of our campaigns have limited life spans including those that involved tours, the big dress tour (2005-2012), and seeding changes tours (2012-2014). Some of our campaigns have never ended but we just have limited resources to focus on them in the moment. At the moment, Arms Trade and Debt justice remain ongoing campaigns in 2023 -2025 but we would like to have the capacity to work on campaigns like Seeding Change again as more volunteers come forward.
Permaculture has stayed part of our journey, we have linked with local actions and groups in Portugal with SPEAK international partners Mount of Oaks https://mountofoaks.org to learn about permaculture and explore getting land for a community, so some of ongoing action is facilitating local skill/ resource shares, capacity building as well as campaigns.
The photo is from our seeding Change Network where members planted seeds at a previous Vocal Training SPEAK event
One initiative that we have been massively inspired by is Crops Not Shops and there is some crossover with our current active BeSpoke groups and networks with their vision for planting seeds and aiding a new economy:
https://www.cropsnotshops.co.uk/our-mission/
We are also inspired by https://www.mayproject.org they are providing practical, affordable, and collective solutions for people to live sustainably and challenge power structures that don’t serve their interests. Connecting the tools – nature, food, and creative arts – to foster people’s personal transformation!