Congratulations to the following for helping Beth Kanter raise university fees for two Cambodian Students:

Shirley Williams
Michael David Pick
Preetam Rai
Wiebke Herding
Peter Cranstone
Polly Thompson
Nicholas Booth
Fernanda Ibarra
Britt Bravo
Kelley-sue LeBlanc
Laura Whitehead
Allyson Lazar
CindyAE
Andre Carothers
John Powers
Neesha Rahim
Anal Bhattacharya
Steve Bridger
Lloyd Davis
Donna Callejon
Chris Brogan
Anonymous
Joyce Bettencourt
Erin Vest
Philip C Campbell
Jane E Quigley [...]

In the spirit of experimentation I’ve just set up a Facebook Group for people who blog in and/or about Birmingham UK. It’s an open group at the moment – hoping we can keep it resonably focussed on those of us who live here or write about here.

Birmingham Bloggers on Facebook

Need I say more? [...]

A few weeks late with this but I just want to share with you the work of a group of year Nine Students at Frankley High in Birmingham.

I’ve been working for Stan’s Cafe and Birmingham Creative Partnerships, with musician Mathew Beckett, to develop podcasting skills in infant and senior school students and staff [...]

 

 Frankley Talk Tenth Pink Slip: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Mikko Kapanen and Shauna Magunda are two students at UCE in Birmingham who used their final year project to experiment with podcasting to tell the stories of refugees in the city. This programme talks to them about how and why they did it and also hears excerpts from some of [...]

 

 Refucast on the Grassroots Channel [18:18m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

image from peteashton

Jon Bounds – the man behind BiNS, the chap who put this site together and the bloke I worked with (he did it mostly) on upyerbrum, continue his one man online campaign to show the true strength of this fabulous city.

He has declared July 20th 2007 Talk Like a Brummie Day.
Orlroit bab!
How often [...]

OK so a slightly dramatic headline as you can see from the smiling photo. This programme is one of those occasional episodes when we manage to bring an active citizen together with the politician who’s thwarted their efforts (you might like to listen to Albert Bore and Natalie Brade).

For four years Simon [...]

 

 Black Patch Park podcast [16:50m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Next month in Birmingham is a two day training event to help active citizens wield more power in their communities. Organised by Friends of the Earth “Power Up” will cost you £60 and should help you:

Talk tactics and share strategies with the experts
Meetgovernment agencies and other community support organisations
Get practical tips for shaping your [...]

Thanks to Sunny at Pickled Politics for this quote from Peter Horrocks, the head of BBC News at the BBC:
So, the days of middle-of-the-road, balancing left and right, impartiality are dead. Instead I believe we need to consider adopting what I like to think of as a much wider “radical impartiality” – the need to [...]