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BAE’s Board fails to answer critics yet again

BAE Systems has once again failed to answer critics on vital questions of ethics at its Annual General Meeting (AGM) in London today. The Board faced a series of questions from shareholders about allegations of corruption and its risible attempts to appear ethical. A little over a year ago, in April 2008,

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The cuckoo has landed… at UKTI

CAAT media co-ordinator Kaye Stearman writes... Monday morning, 30 March, at 8.30am. and the pavement outside Kingsgate House, the unlovely concrete box that houses United Kingdom Trade and Investment (UKTI), was in deep shadow. I had volunteered to do the early shift at CAAT's UKTI demo and was freezing as a result. As the

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CAAT says “Kick out the cuckoo from the UKTI nest”

As members of the Board of United Kingdom Trade & Investment (UKTI) arrive for their Board Meeting on 30 March they will be met by supporters of Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) demanding that UKTI end its disproportionate and unjustified support for the arms industry. UKTI’s Defence and Security Organisation (DSO) was

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BABY SHOW

London CAAT members descended on the Excel Centre on the weekend of the 27th February as Clarion Events, owners of the DSEI arms fair, were holding a Baby Show there. Two hours of leafleting took place on the Friday and there was a musical protest by East London Against the Arms

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East End arms campaigners go westwards to protest

East London Against the Arms Fair (ELAAF) are appealing directly to the state-owned Abu Dhabi Exhibition Company, owners of the ExCeL Centre, to stop hosting the London Arms Fair in 2009. On 25 March ELAAF will hold a musical protest outside the United Arab Emirates (UAE) embassy in Kensington. The musical protest

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“Big Bang” event is really Big BAE, not science education

Campaigning organisations Scientists for Global Responsibility (SGR) and Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) have jointly condemned the sponsorship of a youth science event by the UK’s largest arms company. Arms manufacturer BAE Systems is a major sponsor of The Big Bang, a science and technology education event aimed at young people. CAAT

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Baby Show organisers have a dirty record on arms sales

Clarion Events, organisers of the forthcoming Baby Show at London’s ExCeL Centre, are enthusiastic promoters of the trade in deadly weapons. Supporters of Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) will be there to inform Baby Show visitors of Clarion’s dirty business record. Clarion held its last Baby Show in London in October 2008.

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