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Early November, we joined various activists, organisers and supporters at Sands Films to mark “100 years since they said it would be the last war…” On Tuesday 6th November, we attended a film screening of Shadow World, followed by a discussion with authors and screenplays Andrew Feinstein & Paul Holden, artist and musician Lowkey, and […]

From 7th-9th September, CAAT joined other organisers and groups in the National Student Activist Weekender, held at (the v cute!) Besson St Community Gardens. The weekend consisted of various organising groups and liberation campaigns (within campuses and beyond) coming together to contribute on how we collectively build a united student movement. Discussions and workshops on […]

The conference On the 1st and 2nd September, students from across the UK came together at Manchester University Student Union to collaborate and organise in their demands for their universities to stop arming, funding and supporting Israel’s ongoing occupation and colonisation of Palestinian land, human rights abuses, and breaking of international law. The educational weekend […]

From Friday 26th Oct – Sunday 28th Oct, CAAT Unis joined peace organisers across Europe in an organising weekend named ‘Don’t militarize me!’ at the University of Kassel in Germany. Groups such as DFG-VK, IPPNW, ICAN, JunepA and ICAN came together to share the various ways in which they were working on anti-militarism. We delivered […]

Today is my last day working at Campaign Against Arms Trade! It’s been fantastic to have the chance to work with energetic and enthusiastic students all across the country who’ve been doing tons of great work to cut ties between their universities and arms companies. These have been some of the highlights of working at […]

Last September, students, academics and activists from around the world travelled to East London to protest one of the largest arms fairs in the world. One of the (many!) events during the week of protests was Conference at the Gates; an academic action against the arms fair. Below is the open letter which supported the […]

It’s been just over 3 months since I started working at Campaign Against Arms Trade – so I thought I’d write a quick update on what I’ve been up to so far! One of the first things I started working on was developing our campaign messaging and updating our materials. Thanks to Reading University students, […]

Hello!   My name is Jess Poyner and I’m the new Universities Coordinator for CAAT Universities Network! I’ve just graduated from Architecture and Urban Planning at Newcastle University where I was active in various campaigns and projects from Fossil Free to Black Lives Matter. It’s a great time to get involved in running CAAT campaigns […]

Hello! I’m Rachel, your new Universities Network coordinator.  I got involved with CAAT when I was studying physics at university after I realised how insidious and pandemic the arms trade’s involvement was at my university and in my academic department.  I loved campaigning at university and I’ve seen first hand what can be achieved, so […]