Demilitarise Education Day of Action

Join us for a selection of talks and workshops exploring how our education systems currently partner with the arms trade and support world wide injustice.

Calling all students!

This is a safe space for all to join, learn, connect and strengthen our university movements and beyond!

All welcome!

Our universities play a crucial role in supporting the arms trade through corporate-military research partnerships, investments, sponsorships, grant funding, and recruitment – so demilitarising our universities is a crucial part of resisting the arms trade and wider patterns of militarism within our society.

Every 2 years, some of the largest arms companies in the world come together at DSEI to exhibit and sell their weapons. These companies operate with impunity, continuing to sell their weapons to human rights abusing states despite their use in facilitating war crimes and other violations of international law. As conflicts across the world from Yemen, Palestine, to Kashmir continue; as the environment becomes increasingly polluted and the climate increasingly unstable: these companies make a profit at every phase. From the brutal repression of locals resisting the exploitation of land and resources in the extraction process; to their use in war; by the police against civilians protesting for their rights and freedoms; and against refugees at the borders. The arms trade is embedded in, and plays a vital role in maintaining an unjust, unsustainable, exploitative global system of trade and conflict.

As part of the week of resistance against DSEI, this day is dedicated to exploring resistance in education. Come and join CAAT, dED_ucation, Disarm Oxford, Demilitarise UCL and other groups for workshops and discussions on campaigning against the arms trade in our universities.

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