1024 votes were cast on 18 April as GDAMS was celebrated around England and Scotland. Education & Health came top with 1406, then Climate Change with 1194, International Development 1033 then Arms and military intervention with 199 See the Pie Chart of results
News is still coming in of GDAMS events. Hundreds of our postcards were given out, hundreds voted in our ballot. Here you can see photographs of some events. Great film from MEDACT here So far we know that stalls, leafleting, campaigning took place in : Liverpool Dorchester, Leeds, Hebden Bridge, Keighley London x 3, Coventry, Edinburgh, Oxford, Abingdon, Kingston, Menwith Hill, Wimbourne, Worthing, …
We have produced a Postcard for you to download and use on stalls, events leading up to and on 18 April. Can also be printed as an A5 leaflet.
The United Kingdom is the sixth highest military spender in the world with an annual budget of £45 billion announced in summer 2015. For the Global Day of Action 2016, we are asking people around the country how they would use that money to make the world safer. Vote now More ideas to help you plan for 18 …
Peace groups, students, faith groups, unions and more gathered in London on 27 February to say ‘Stop Trident’ Great film here entitled ‘Why’? that captures the spirit of the day produced by LostPandaProductions and Brighton Expression Sessions You can read more about Faith group presence here Find more Stop Trident events here
Organised by CND and supported by Compass, Fellowship of Reconciliation, The Green Party of England & Wales, Greenpeace, International Peace Bureau, Medact, Muslim Association of Britain, Pax Christi, People’s Assembly Against Austerity, Quakers, Stop the War, Veterans for Peace, War on Want, Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom: WILPF… and more More details here …
The 2016 Global Day of Action on Military Spending (GDAMS) will take place on April 18. Put it in your diary now! More information to follow.
The Global Day of Action on Military Spending “People’s Poll” ran 13-20 April 2015. In person and online, participants chose how they would spend £38 billion (the annual figure spent by the UK on the military) for a safer world. This is how they voted. Carina Education is my number one priority for its power to …
Abingdon Peace Group ran a stall to mark the Global Day of Action on Military Spending (GDAMS) on 13th April 2015. To engage with passers-by, they held a ballot on how Trident money could be otherwise spent: five marbles to distribute between five containers – Health, Education, Nuclear Weapons, Renewable Energy, Housing and Other. They also had a Trident Quiz and various …
Spending on health and education at home and overseas came out top of the list in the street survey conducted by Pax Christi and the Quakers today as part of the Global Day of Action on Military Spending (GDAMS). On the day when the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) announced that in 2014 Global Military Spending …
