News from International Peace Bureau
Updates from the International Peace Bureau about GDAMS 2015. Read more about the International plans for next year and be encouraged to get involved yourself.
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 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 …
