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On 20 May at Nottingham Magistrates’ Court, anti-arms-trade activist Kirk Jackson was found guilty of aggravated trespass for his part in a protest that shut down an arms company for a day. He was given a 12-month conditional discharge and ordered to pay £350 court costs.
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)
Ian Mackinnon reports from the People's World Conference on Climate Change in Cochabamba, Bolivia. At the Peoples' World Conference on Climate Change from 19-22 April 2010, activists and grassroots organisations from around the world gathered to address what they see as the failure of governmental climate policy at
Anne-Marie O'Reilly on how CAAT campaigners brought BAE to justice on 5 May. The People's Jury in session One 12-foot high puppet (literally armed to the teeth) + 30 judge/jurors in wigs and cloaks = a strange sight for civil servants, tourists and shareholders in the City of Westminster this
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
The current election campaign is intriguing for many of us, not only because there is no clear favourite to win, but because we shall see at least a 150 new faces in parliament. Many of these faces will be young faces, replacing those who for many years have been at the heart of the
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