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Ruth Tetlow shares: “On Wednesday January 24th a group of Debt Justice staff and supporters gathered in the City Centre Park in Birmingham, to commemorate the extraordinary Human Chain of about 70,000 people who gathered around the city centre 25 years earlier in 1998, as part of the global jubilee campaign. It resulted in the … Read more
A Tree of Memory and Hope At 11.30am on Wednesday 24th January a tree is to be planted in the City Centre Gardens in memory of the Human Chain of seventy thousand people around the city centre in May 1998. They influenced the G8 leaders to start a programme which resulted in the cancellation of … Read more
John Nightingale, Chair of Jubilee Debt Campaign Birmingham shares his reflections ahead of the name change from Jubilee Debt Campaign to Debt Justice on May 16th. As a visiting preacher I often ask congregations whether they remember the Human Chain of May 16th 1998, when seventy thousand people held hands around the centre of Birmingham … Read more