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campaign against arms trade

February 15, 2013

Ten years since the Iraq march: Living activism today

Ten years ago today, he joined millions of other people around the world in marching against the planned invasion of Iraq. This week, Symon Hill was effectively banned from his local branch of Costcutter for trying to buy newspapers. It’s been a strange decade, he writes.
October 31, 2012

Church HQ to host arms dealers as Christians pray and protest

Church House, the administrative HQ of the Church of England, is hosting a conference sponsored by arms companies. Christians are protesting against it.
October 18, 2012

MPs question government's arms sales to repressive regimes

The Foreign Affairs Committee has called on ministers to recognise contradictions between promoting human rights and selling arms to dictatorships.
June 4, 2012

Catholic convicted of criminal damage after protest against arms trade

Roman Catholic activist Chris Cole has been convicted of criminal damage for his nonviolent protest against the London arms fair last September.
May 2, 2012

Fantasy and reality at BAE's AGM

Welcome to the weird and wonderful world of the BAE Systems Annual General Meeting. Shareholders were today (2 May) welcomed into the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre, to be greeted by plush carpets, free coffee and glamorous posters featuring BAE staff saying how great it is to work for one of the world’s largest arms dealers (they don’t quite put it quite like that).
May 2, 2012

BAE 'proud' to sell arms to Bahrain and Saudi Arabia

The chairman of arms giant BAE Systems has refused to rule out selling arms to the Saudi government even if the country uses them to put down peaceful protests.
May 2, 2012

UK ministers criticise repressive regimes, then sell them weapons

The government have published a report on regimes that abuse human rights just as statistics reveal the same regimes have bought British weapons.
April 29, 2012

Quaker who disrupted Cable's speech was 'witnessing to truth'

The Quaker who disrupted Business Secretary Vince Cable's speech to a conference of arms dealers has defended his protest as “an act of witness to the truth”
April 26, 2012

Quaker disrupts Vince Cable's speech to arms dealers

A Quaker has interrupted a speech by Business Secretary Vince Cable to deliver his own impromptu speech against the government’s support for the arms industry.
April 19, 2012

No London arms fair if Ken or Jenny becomes Mayor

Two of the leading candidates for Mayor of London have pledged to use their powers to prevent the London arms fair taking place again if they are elected.