Beth Smith

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 […]

We recently reported that the Huffington Post had collected information, via a series of Freedom of Information requests, about the funding that universities receive from arms companies. Students across the UK have picked up on the story and reported it in their own student newspapers. So far, the story has been reported in: Roar! News – King’s […]

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 […]

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Activists challenged the presence of arms company Raytheon UK at the London Graduate Fair this week. The protesters gathered to call on the organisers of the fair to stop promoting arms companies at their events. They also distributed leaflets to those waiting to enter, to inform them about the devastating work of Raytheon UK.

Students at Warwick held a dramatic die-in at their Careers Fair. Below is an account of the action by Jac Bastian, coordinator of Weapons out of Warwick. On the 11th of October the University of Warwick hosted a Careers Fair with BAE Systems and Rolls Royce Plc in attendance as well as Barclays and HSBC. […]

Over the three years 2008-2011 leading British universities received at least £83 million of funding from UK arms companies and government military agencies, for research, courses and other activities. The information was analysed from Freedom of Information (FOIs) requests submitted submitted by Dina Rickman of the Huffington Post to the 24 Russell Group universities, which […]