Freedom of Information requests by the Oxford Anti-War Action group helped The Independent to write this article on Oxford University’s investments in Lockheed Martin.
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Abi Haque and Hilary Ekad have written an excellent piece for CAAT in the Huffington Post. Find out about the links between universities and the arms trade and what students are doing about it. Read the article here. The Newcastle University newspaper, The Courier, has revealed university shares in arms company, BAE. Shockingly, shares in the company have almost doubled since 2009, when the university agreed to review its ethical investment policy. Read more here. The Swansea Student Union has passed a motion to campaign against their University having shares in the arms trade, specifically targeting current shares in Cobham and BAE Systems. Find out more and read the text of the motion here. Students have been in talks with senior officials from Manchester University, who have agreed to look into the arms investments held by the university. Read Rob Cooper’s article in Student Direct. 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 … More » A sustained, four-year campaign by students at St Andrew University has led to the University Court adopting the Ethical Investment Policy drawn up jointly by the activists and university Finance Director. The policy means that social and environmental issues will be considered alongside financial ones, meaning that investment in companies such as BAE Systems will … More » The Students Union at Sheffield University has passed a motion calling on their university to divest from the arms trade. The motion was passed by a solid majority. More explicitly, the Union has declared that it is opposed to the university dealing with the arms trade in any form. This includes through shareholding, research funding … More » Students achieved an exciting investment success at Goldsmiths. After a decision to picket the warden, the college agreed to drop its shares in companies involved in the arms trade. Read the report by Grace Lally, from Goldsmiths Respect, in the Socialist Worker After opening a dialogue with their finance director in December, following CAAT’s publication of shareholding figures, Bangor Uni Liberal Democrat Society (BULDS), Bangor Amnesty Student Group and United Nations Youth and Students Association secured divestment and the adoption of an ethical investment policy by their university. BULDS released the following statement on receiving such a … More » |
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