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Abi Haque on CAAT's first-ever alternative careers event. Our excitement about holding the first ever Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) alternative careers event was well rewarded. The event at the University of York on the evening of 10 February saw a fantastic turn-out of over 60 students. In fact, the room was
A report of London CAAT’s protest at the Clarion-owned Travel Show. Members of London Campaign Against Arms Trade (London CAAT) descended on the Destinations: Holiday and Travel Show in Earls Court on Saturday, 5 February, to protest about the organiser’s involvement in
Druid Cycles against London arms fair – Excel Centre – January 2011 Druid Cycles is a bicycle repair community interest company (CIC) based in south London with a green approach, focusing on recycling and repair. They tell us why they feel so strongly about the
Santa and elves assemble outside Olympia Santa and his elves turned up at Kensington Olympia on Sunday 7 November to protest about the Spirit of Christmas being corrupted by the owners of the DSEI arms fair. The Spirit of Christmas Fair was taking place and the organisers of
On the 8 September the DSEI arms fair opened in East London. I spent the day meandering around CAAT’s demonstration outside the offices of UKTI DSO talking to all and sundry. I wanted to see the range of reasons why such a large group of people had gathered to fight actions our government deems to
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Bexie21 describes her experience at Clarion Events Baby Show This is a blog about how I found out that BabyCentre were indirectly funding the arms trade - and perhaps more importantly, what I did about it. I was browsing BabyCentre, when i came across a thread on DC Lite. I like DC Lite, because
The BAE AGM is one of the constants of the CAAT calendar. Every May we mobilise our supporters to line up to ask the sort of questions the BAE Board definitely do not want to answer. 2009 was no exception. This year we decided to focus on what happens inside the AGM, rather than outside.
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