Campaigning

On the 10th October we had a really enjoyable and inspirational workshop at Portsmouth University. Loads of new ideas for campaigns and actions came out of it and we all left feeling excited for what lies ahead. To top it all off, it ended with a big group hug – d’aww. If you’d like a […]

After a spectacular campaign, Edinburgh university have divested from Ultra Electronics – a company which makes components for drones. The Guardian reports – ‘The company, headquartered at Greenford in Middlesex, makes navigation controls for the US fleet of Predator and Reaper unmanned aerial vehicles. Armed with Hellfire missiles, they are sent on covert “targeted killing” […]

BAE Systems, one of the world’s biggest arms dealers, have been attending Edinburgh’s Careers Fairs for several years and have been met with student protests each time. This time last year, students held a stall outside the Careers Fair and even managed to confiscate some of BAE’s materials. At the end of the Fair, one of the […]

At last year’s Yorkshire Graduate Recruitment Fair in Leeds, Thales, the world’s 11th largest arms company attended. A few months ago, they were listed on the Fair’s website as attending again but after a huge campaign by Let’s Disarm Leeds and a successful student union referendum against arms company’s presence on campus, they have quietly disappeared […]

After an excellent campaign by Leeds University student group Let’s Disarm Leeds, students voted Yes in a referendum on whether they wanted to end their university’s links with BAE Systems, the world’s third biggest arms manufacturer. This victory mandates the Students’ Union to lobby the University to do three things in particular: to stop inviting BAE to […]

On Wednesday 6 March, six months before the DSEI arms fair is due to return to London, students and other activists across the UK took action against arms companies at their universities and in their communities, sending a strong message that their business will not go unchallenged. Warwick Weapons out of Warwick took non-violent direct […]

On Saturday 24 November, students from across the UK gathered at the University of Sheffield to share ideas and learn more about campaigning against the arms trade on their campuses. We were also lucky enough to learn from an ex-university staff member. The Gathering was kindly hosted by Sheffield ‘Fund Education Not War’, a vibrant […]

Anti arms-trade students protested today at Lancaster campus against the presence of arms companies at the University Career Opportunities Fair. BAE Systems was specifically targeted by groups of students, who handed out fliers and used fake blood to protest their attendance at the Fair.

Essex Careers Centre has cancelled BAE’s attendance of its Careers Fair following student protest. After finding out that BAE Systems were planning to attend the 29 October fair, students quickly mobilised to stop them. They wrote a statement expressing their opposition to BAE’s attendance and sent it to every department at the university. They contacted […]