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  Lancaster University Against Arms Trade report on a recent action: To coincide with planned divestment day activities, students at Lancaster university redecorated a 10′ high sign outside the university campus, using wallpaper and wheat paste. The sign read ‘BAE Systems university: complicit in murder’, and was designed to draw attention to Lancaster universities ongoing partnerships and […]

A group of students have taken action to challenge arms company sponsorship of the Big Bang Fair held at Essex University during the Christmas holidays. The fair, which aims to inspire young people to become scientists and engineers, makes no mention of the destructive impact of it’s sponsors. Prince Charles even dropped in for a visit. […]

Last Thursday, 9th of October, CEO of major arms company QinetiQ, was in Bristol speaking to students as part of UWE’s “Distinguished Address Series”. QinetiQ, 6th largest UK arms company, work mainly on military applications — weapons, guidance systems, military aircraft technology etc, branching out into surveillance & security technologies (including technologies considered for ID cards), and […]

Essex University have invited Ulrich Pilster from NATO to talk about careers in the nuclear armed, Afghanistan-invading, Western business interests-defending organisation responsible for tens of thousands of civilian deaths in Afghanistan and three million refugees who have fled. Students are demanding that the university withdraw the invite. It is irresponsible for a university which prides […]

What a blinding term for the universities network! You’ve debated, divested and disrupted those devilish death dealers! Spirits are high and new groups are forming over the country so 2014 looks to be a bad year to be an arms dealer. There’s work to be done if we’re to boot BAE off campuses for good, […]

Campaign Against Arms Trade is very concerned to hear that student activists are currently facing attacks on their right to protest across the country. In recent months, we’ve noted increasingly harsh responses from university authorities to protesting students. This academic term saw private security drag students from their own university building in Sheffield during a […]

Update: The protest was successful! The DPRTE conference has been moved away from the UWE campus. Well done to everyone who was involved for your hard work! Students of the University of the West of England joined forces with Bristol Against the Arms Trade yesterday to protest and disrupt the DPRTE conference, hosted by the […]

Students from the Fund Education Not War group at Sheffield University were dragged from the Octagon Centre where they were protesting the companies Augusta Westland, Airbus, BAE Systems, Rolls Royce, Thales and Ultra Electronics who were exhibiting at the university’s engineering careers fair. Some of the students were injured as a result. One activist shows […]

Students at Bristol university disrupted their Careers Fair to protest the attendance of BAE Systems, Thales and EADS. Here’s their press release: On the 22nd and 23rd of October a group of Bristol students took action against the presence of arms companies at careers fairs organised by Bristol university. This action took place at the […]