The reason why I have not been blogging for ages is simple:
I haven’t been around. Here are a few lines on the difficulties of being an anti-arms trade campaigner in exile:
Three months ago I left London for a research trip to Ukraine and that’s when things really started to get going:
Two days before my departure [...]
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Diary of an anti-arms trade campaigner in exile
Posted in CAAT, Cobham plc, DESO, DSEi, Defence Export Services Organisation, Defence Systems and Equipment International Exhibition, London CAAT, New Statesman, SHUT DESO, University College London, activism, anti-arms, arms companies, arms fairs, arms trade, blogging, campaigning, ethical, ethical investment, investment, peace, protest, universities, universities network, victory, war on September 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
DESO down, DSEi to go
Posted in BAE Systems, CAAT, DESO, DSEi, Defence Export Services Organisation, Defence Systems and Equipment International Exhibition, London CAAT, Reed Elsevier, SHUT DESO, activism, anti-arms, arms fairs, arms trade, campaigning, central london, government, protest, victory on August 16, 2007 | 2 Comments »
The Prime Minister’s statement of 25th July that the Defence Export Services Organisation, based in Bloomsbury, will be shut by the end of the year is a great success for the peace movement in general and Campaign Against Arms Trade in particular. CAAT’s Shut DESO campaign, which included encircling the building with a human chain [...]
Blogging the experience of gentle protest
Posted in CAAT, DSEi, Defence, Defence Systems and Equipment International Exhibition, Reed Elsevier, activism, anti-arms, arms companies, arms fairs, arms trade, blogging, campaigning, central london, equipment, ethical, exhibition, investment, peace, protest, war on May 1, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Apologies if this info comes a bit late but here it is anyway:
Richard Smith, chief executive of UnitedHealth Europe has blogged about his experience inside the Reed Elsevier AGM and about what he calls a “gentle mornings protesting”.
Read the blog entry here
For those who are new here: Reed Elsevier is a global publishing company, which [...]
Reed Elsevier AGM protest
Posted in CAAT, DSEi, Defence Systems and Equipment International Exhibition, London CAAT, Reed Elsevier, UK, activism, anti-arms, arms fairs, arms trade, campaigning, central london, ethical, ethical investment, exhibition, investment, peace, protest on April 18, 2007 | 1 Comment »
By Helen
I am from Cornwall and doing two weeks work experience with CAAT as part of my degree course in journalism. Its only my second day at CAAT but so far its been very exciting being in London. Yesterday we held a protest outside the AGM meeting of Reed Elsevier who run arms fairs as a [...]
