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New campaign within UK Labour Party to oppose military spending increase

Yesterday, Labour CND launched a campaign to encourage UK Labour party members to engage with the party’s front bench over their support for recent UK military spending increases. Regarding the £24bn increase announced in November the campaign page states “We think this is unacceptable. Labour’s front bench got it wrong when Keir Starmer backed Boris …

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GCOMS Webinar on Military Spending and Global (In)Security

On December 3 (1pm UK Time) GCOMS will be hosting a webinar on Military Spending & Global (In)Security, in order to start a conversation about how current levels of military spending condition our responses to the global emergencies of our time. Speakers include: Michael Klare, Tarja Cronberg Walden Bello and Binalakshmi Nepram.The conference is supported …

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Infographics to Share

Do use these infographics from the Global Campaign on Military Spending to share the important message: Militarisation is accelerating at an alarming rate at a time when it should be drastically reduced in order to tackle the grave challenges humanity is facing.

Reports coming in from GCOMS 2017

At St Joseph’s School and site of Pax Christi office in Hendon London, staff and pupils of the school came along to cast their vote for a safer world. As well as showing curiosity about what was going on, 94 people took part in the vote and you can see the results in the photograph. …

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New media package for GCOMS 2017

The International GCOMS team have put together ideas, twitter messages, hashtags that can all be used by individuals and groups to help promote the week of action.   You can also find info graphics here which are useful in presenting facts and alternatives to military spending . If you cannot arrange a stall or activity …

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New articles and campaign resources added

Check out these pages to see articles and resources that may help you plan for your GCOMS activities.  We are trying to make links with some of the major events taking place in our world: Increased military spending, especially in the USA, on-going conflicts in South Sudan, Yemen, Syria which have links back to the …

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Vote for a Safer World: on-line survey open!

The on-line survey for 2017 is OPEN.  How would you spend £46 billion,  the annual UK military budget. Take part in the survey yourself and share with others! Plan now for a stall/action between 20 – 23 April and join with others around the world marking GCOMS 2017.  More ideas here