UK arms sales to Madagascar
"Apparent calm but armed military", Madagascar, 18 March 2009. Image: fanalana_azy on Flickr. Jeremy Williams explains his concerns about the UK's arms sales to Madagascar and asks his MP to help get some answers.
News
All the latest from Campaign Against Arms Trade, across the country and near you, including press releases, the CAAT Blog, articles from the CAAT News magazine, and info on local actions. Browse the full list, or filter by type or topic.
International recognition and international inspiration
The 2012 Right Livelihood Award recipients receiving their diplomas in the Swedish Parliament. Photo: Wolfgang Schmidt Anne-Marie O'Reilly writes on the Right Livelihood Award presentation and the inspirational people she met there. Last week my CAAT colleague Henry McLaughlin and myself were lucky to represent thousands of people's contributions and years
How we gate-crashed the arms dealers’ dinner
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=cesR_oJ2UuY Yesterday around 200 arms dealers from the ‘defence’ sector of the aerospace industry and their guests (military ‘top brass’ and high-ranking officials from the Ministry of Defence and foreign embassies) gathered for a dinner. At these events companies that manufacture and sell weapons entertain their clients, network and promote their
Vince Cable: Constituents speak out
Protesters outside Vince Cable's constituency office Paul Tippell is a member of Twickenham, Richmond and Kingston Network against the Arms Trade (TRAKNAT, www.traknat.org.uk), which is co-ordinating a public meeting on 29 November to quiz Vince Cable and Zac Goldsmith on the arms trade. We spoke to him about how
CAAT’s “Alternative Nobel Prize”
The Right Livelihood Award is also known as "The Alternative Nobel Prize" Last week, on Thursday 27 September, Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) was awarded one of the four Right Livelihood Awards for 2012 for our "innovative and effective campaigning against the
“These people are selling more guns from here?”
The Shut Down H&K campaign pickets the Nottingham site every month and in 2010 shut it down for a day with a rooftop occupation In Nottingham, Shut Down H&K picket their local arms company Heckler & Koch every month. Here they report on leafleting as
Saturday 8 September: Foiling Finmeccanica’s attempt at anonymity
"Danger arms traders work here!" Outside the Finmeccanica office in central London Jessie from the London CAAT group reports on a successful mission to expose an arms company lurking in London.
Return to Goodwin Street
Dot, Jean and Brenda outside 11 Goodwin Street, August 2012 At the end of May Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) moved from 11 Goodwin Street, Finsbury Park, to a more modern office in nearby Wells Terrace. I wrote a nostalgic account of CAAT's quarter of a century in Goodwin Street,
