Israel’s booming secretive arms trade 21 August 2013 An amazing documentary was released this year, that investigated how Israel uses Palestinians as guinea pigs in military weapons experiments. Al Jazeera English wrote an insightful review:
Who pays for high military spending? 20 August 2013 We need to make explicit the choices our politicians are making: They are choosing to protect military spending from the cuts and to keep the UK’s spending on weapons the fourth highest in the world, while subjecting public services to vast cuts.
Shopping for tear gas 19 August 2013 It was great (and surprising?) to see the police watchdog, the Independent Police Complaints Commission, criticising the Met officer for using CS gas on protesters at a UK Uncut action last year. Whilst the IPCC is notoriously ineffectual at challenging police behaviour, it managed to publicly challenge the use of CS gas on this occasion....
Struggles near home: why fighting the arms trade locally is effective 13 August 2013 Activists in Brighton have been campaigning to shut down EDO MBM (owned by ITT Exelis) since 2004. For nine years, we have taken a range of actions against the factory, including road blockades, lock-ons of the factory gates, rooftop occupations, phone blockades, critical mass bike rides, and action camps.
Nuclear weapon makers at the arms fair 9 August 2013 Sara Medi Jones, CND Campaigns Officer writes about the companies at the arms fair which are pushing for the UK to renew its nuclear weapons system: Weapons companies are due to descend on London in September for the world’s largest arms fair. This ‘fair’, a pleasant sounding term for what really is a market for...
The pen is mightier than the tank? 7 August 2013 Our very own newspaper, the Newham Adversary, is officially on the streets! Members of East London Against The Arms Fair (part of the Stop The Arms Fair coalition) started to distribute our anti-DSEI paper around Newham to residents and commuters.
Austerity hypocrisy: military spending is spared the chop 23 July 2013 The links between austerity and arms trade spending are complicated and – sadly – plentiful. The links were expanded on in the recent New Internationalist magazine’s July/August 2013 issue on debt.
Order leaflets to Stop the Arms Fair! 19 July 2013 We’ve produced new posters and leaflets to help spread the word about the day of action. Please get in touch with how many you’d like and your address and we’ll put some in the post!
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