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The 2011-12 academic year will see anti-arms trade campaigners intensify efforts to kick arms companies off university campuses. Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) Universities' Network will be supporting students, staff and academics to Ban BAE and other arms companies from all aspects of university life.
How shameless is the government's arms sales unit? Even as ordinary people across the Middle East are laying down their lives in the struggle for democracy, UKTI DSO organises a seminar to help arms companies to sell weapons to the repressive regimes of the region. The event was called Middle East: A vast market
Anti-arms trade campaigners have launched a media blitz in East London to protest against the forthcoming arms fair at the ExCeL Centre. Newham Adversary is a one-off special edition newspaper which highlights the unethical nature of the arms trade and the horrors of conflict.
Representatives of the arms industry are to speak at a London Chamber of Commerce (LCC) seminar that openly extols the further potential of selling arms to repressive regimes in the Middle East. Scheduled for Thursday 8 September, Middle East: A vast market for UK Defence and security companies features speakers from UK Trade & Industry
It’s easy to lose hope when facing down such huge monsters as the global arms trade. But the AIDEX story shows that popular protest and people power can, and does, work.
Christian communities throughout the country take part ina Day of Prayer on Sunday 11 September two days before the opening of one of the world's largest arms fairs, Defence & Security Equipment International (DSEI), in London's Docklands. The Day of Prayer will take place on the tenth anniversary of the attacks on the Twin Towers
Karim Malak from Egypt reports on an incident on Armed Forces day, 23 July 2011. On 23 July 2011 the Egyptian military cautiously began marking Armed Forces day. The night before, the military had issued a communique on their facebook page incriminating 6 April, a large civil society organisation and opposition movement.
Ann Feltham, CAAT's Parliamentary Co-ordinator, attended the International Development Committee hearing on 19 July which saw BAE under attack by MPs for its shameful inaction in paying £29.5 million to the Government of Tanzania. Media eyes may have been focused on the Murdochs' Select Committee appearance, but the real pleasure for CAAT supporters was the
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