Image of seven people, three in front four in back, in front of a court building, holding placards mostly saying "Not Guilty", one also saying "#StopDSEI", another saying "The arms trade is global, so is our resistance, #StopDSEI". Woman at front on left wearing a Palestinian scarf, raising clenched fist and cheering. Court building behind them.

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Press releases

The bombing of Yemen is only possible because of US and UK arms sales

26th March 2019

Today marks four years since Saudi-led forces began bombing Yemen.’

Activist poet Shareefa Energy opens It Starts Here.

Blogs

Organising to Stop DSEI: It Starts Here

20th March 2019

Our fight to stop the DSEI arms fair is inextricably linked with other intersecting struggles for justice – struggles that It Starts Here called to put front and centre of our action in 2019.

Blogs

Wars, occupation, oppression, and corruption fuel a surging Middle East arms race

12th March 2019

New SIPRI arms transfers data shows small overall increase in global trade, but huge increase in sales to the Middle East. The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) yesterday releasedits latest data on the global

Protesters stand outside the British Museum in lines holding onto large banners/ a 'living tapestry' with messages about war, colonialism, the Iraq war and fossil fuels painted on

Blogs

Oil & war; 16 years since the 2003 anti-war protests

12th March 2019

Cover photo by Safa Kadhim On the 16th Feb, and to mark 16 years since the 2003 anti-war protests, BP or not BP?, and many others took over the British Museum; targetting specifically the BP-sponsored Assyria exhibition. This was part of a series of actions, that also included the action at the