Anne-Marie O'Reilly

GDAMS reports from Yorkshire

14th April, Menwith Hill, North Yorkshire Lindis (Percy), Coordinator of Campaign for the Accountability of American Bases (CAAB) reports on events at the NSA base in Menwith Hill. I went to NSA Menwith Hill at 12 – 2 pm (as it’s Global Day of Action Against Military Spending today!). The Ministry of Defence police were …

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GDAMS reports from Glasgow

14th April, Glasgow Our first action on Monday, for the Global Day of Action on Military Spending, went really well.  In the space of two hours, just under 80  people took part in our vote and many more took postcards. We thought it would be good to repeat this action at fairs/ farmers’ markets etc …

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Open Letter for GDAMS

As the Global Day of Action on Military Spending took place on 14 April 2014, tens of organisations in the UK set out their vision for a shift in priorities in this open letter. If you share its sentiment, why not adapt it and send it to your local paper too? Sir, The latest world …

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£2.5 billion on fighter jets: a top priority?

The government plans to spend £2.5 billion on 14 fighter jets to fight unspecified ‘future threats’. Meanwhile public sector cuts continue to drive homelessness, hunger and inequality in the UK, and renewable energy is woefully underfunded. On 14 April take action with people around the world to say it’s time to shift priorities.

Austerity hypocrisy: military spending is spared the chop

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. While bailout conditions impose austerity on debt-stricken southern European economies, demands to tighten the belt on military spending are not so vocal. According to a …

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Taking the message to Parliament

On the Global Day of Action on Military Spending, campaigners took the message to parliament. See more great photos here and here. Every year a whopping £700 million of public money is spent supporting arms exports, often to countries in conflict and human rights abusers. This subsidy is handed to a deadly sector which in …

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