Peace Scholarships
Great idea from the peace movement in Aotearoa-New Zealand info on project here , to be launched on 10 December, Human Rights Day. Maybe an idea to try out here in the UK?
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 …
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 …
Creative action calls for ‘Welfare not warfare’
14th April, Huddersfield Huddersfield Wool Against Weapons unfurled part of a 7 mile long pink scarf for peace in St George’s Square Huddersfield as part of a global day of action calling for military spending to be redirected to meet human needs. Just part of the £34.5 billion of the annual UK military budget could …
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 …
GDAMS 2014 event in London
Today, the Global Day of Action on Military Spending (GDAMS), it was announced that world military expenditure totals $1.75 trillion. Members of the GDAMs UK Coalition gathered in Central London on 14 April to symbolically redistribute the UK’s £38 billion military budget to government departments with greater needs. The UK has the 6th largest military budget in the world. The action …
GDAMs reports from Coventry and Oxford
Events were held in Coventry and Oxford as part of the Global Day of Action on Military Spending (GDAMS) on 14th April 2014. Coventry In Coventry, campaigners from Pax Christi and Stop The War protested against the use of Council Tax money to invest in arms companies such as Lockheed Martin. At lunch-time, the campaigners …
Take action to end the scandal of military spending
Last month, another £570 million of public money for upgrading the UK’s nuclear weapons was announced (£120 million to refuel a Trident sub; £150 million more to be spent on nuclear plants making the reactors; and £300 million to refurbish the submarine yard). Budget Day confirmed that when it comes to military spending, there’s no …
£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 …
