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Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) welcomes today’s acquittal of five of the arms protestors known as the EDO decommissioners who have been on trial at Hove Crown Court on charges of conspiracy to create criminal damage. The jury accepted their defence of necessity: acting reasonably in the circumstances to prevent a greater evil. Simon Levin,

A Government Minister has declared that senior members of the Government will promote arms exports to compensate for budget cuts at the Ministry of Defence. Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) says that this brazen support for the arms trade by the new Coalition Government will result in even more suffering as a result of

Hundreds of anti-arms trade campaigners will take action in the week of 19-27 June, Stop Week, organised by Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT). They will call for the demolition of the government’s arms sales’ department: a timely message in the week of the budget. While front-line services are under threat, campaigners will point to

Supporters from Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) are taking part in the annual Day of Prayer on 20 June. This event marks the beginning of CAAT’s Stop Week, when the organisation’s supporters take part in co-ordinated action across the UK to end the international arms trade. The focus is on ending taxpayer

As a new UK Government takes office, Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) has issued a new briefing paper outlining the case against Government arms export promotion. Private gain, public pain the case for ending Government’s arms selling describes the activities of UK Trade & Investment’s Defence & Security Organisation (UKTI DSO)

The AGM of arms giant BAE Systems this morning was overshadowed by a protest organised by Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT). While BAE Chairman Dick Olver struggled to answer questions about the company’s ethics inside the Queen Elizabeth Conference Centre in Westminster, outside CAAT had organised a People’s Jury to highlight BAE’s unethical activities

Supporters of Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) will be active inside and outside BAE Systems Annual General Meeting (AGM) on 5 May 2010 as they continue to expose the unethical activities of the giant arms company. CAAT will put BAE on trial with a People’s Jury, featuring dozens of judges and a giant puppet

Britain’s largest arms manufacturer, BAE Systems, may think they have slipped free of serious sanction by agreeing a plea bargain with the Serious Fraud Office. But campaigners at Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) have hit upon a novel way to bring these alleged corporate criminals to justice. A website, BAE: The