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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

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 people arrived at a conference

Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) has been awarded one of the four Right Livelihood Awards for 2012 for their innovative and effective campaigning against the arms trade. CAAT is an independent campaigning organisation based in Finsbury Park, north London.

On the International Day of Peace, Friday 21 September, giant bubbles will fill Trafalgar Square with the message Bubbles Not Bombs. The family friendly event will call on the National Gallery to end its support for the arms trade.

"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.

A new arms trade map of the UK developed by CAAT will enable the public to find out the locations and activities of often secretive arms companies.

One year before the DSEI arms fair is scheduled to return to London's docklands in September 2013, campaigners from Stop the Arms Fair coalition have promised that they will do everything they can to stop it happening. Their call to action signals to the ExCeL Centre, the venue that hosts the arms fair, and the

One year before one of the world's largest arms fairs is due to return to the UK, Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) has launched an arms trade map of the UK to enable people to learn more about the activities of the often secretive arms industry and to take action against the arms companies on