Campaigning

Two weeks after the launch of Campaign Against the Arms Trade’s new Ban BAE counter-recruitment campaign, students and anti-arms trade activists kicked off the academic year by taking over a BAE recruitment presentation and staging a die-in at their stall. The action took place at the Guardian’s busy Graduate Fair held at the Business Design […]

Bristol students challenged attendees of the university careers fair to question whether a ‘career in killing’ was actually something they wanted during their protest last week. Read more on Bristol IndyMedia.

Security staff at Edinburgh University temporarily closed the careers fair during a ‘die-in’ by members of Students for Justice in Palestine at the BAE stall. Read more about the protest here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzTMqYQDodk

Oxford Anti-War Action organised a protest against the presence of BAE at an Oxford University Careers Fair, in particular emphasising links with Israel. Read original article

A year on from the occupations and student activism against the arms trade has not abated. With a day of action followed by a gathering in York students are making themselves heard. On 24 February students across the UK took action against their university’s links with the arms trade. Actions included a vigil in memory […]

Careers fairs provide the perfect opportunity to disrupt the arms’ industry’s sordid trade, and students in Sheffield have tried a number of different methods in our attempts to scupper their recruitment process. From banner drops to die-ins, all manner of approaches have been employed, but for me the most effective strategy is simply to dismantle […]

As an Engineer I was invited to go to a presentation by BAE Systems. Not only was I annoyed that the recruitment and careers services were doing BAE’s marketing for them, but I was familiar with what BAE got up to and so I decided that it was time someone exposed them on campus. Having […]

We had a great day – we did the normal leafleting and petitioning of all the people entering and leaving the careers fair, we sold peace poppies and sent postcards off to MPs. We had some people dressed up as eye-catching zombies and others dressed up as corporate types promoting BAE Systems and handing out […]

Student campaigners across Britain joined ranks on Wednesday to call on their Directors of Finance to sell arms company shares and adopt ethical investment policies. At around midday, protesters at University College London (UCL) donned suits and plastic guns and posed as arms dealers. This drew the attention of both students and staff to the […]