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From a student at Bristol University This spring, many of us will have seen the Arab uprisings, and been shocked at the way peaceful people have been gassed, shot at, and otherwise attacked by their own governments. What will have passed many of us by however, is that many of the weapons used against these … More » 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. Students campaigning against York University’s undertaking of research funded by arms companies, yesterday protested on York campus. The lively protest, involving a talk from the local MP, protest poetry and drumming, called for the adoption of an ethical funding policy, to build on the ethical investment policy already held by York. Read the original article here. … More » 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. Nouse, the University of York’s student newspaper, has revealed that the University of York takes money from arms companies for research. Read the original article. 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 » Alongside the high profile campaign surrounding the George Fox 6, Lancaster students have been highlighting possible links between Lancaster University’s actions with regards to students protesting at a ‘Corporate Venturing’ conference, the commercialisation of research and the holding of shares in companies including BAE Systems – who attended the conference. Lancaster University SU has this … More » |
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