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The following campaigns, currently being run by other organisations, may be of interest to CAAT supporters:
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CAAT is a core group in the European Network Against Arms Trade which is made up if lobby and campaign organisations across Europe which work on arms trade issues.
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Italy: 'Armed Banks' Campaign
Italian NGOs and peace groups, working through the Rete Italiano per il Disarmo are campaigning against banks with investment in arms companies and other destructive projects like the building of oil pipelines. Targeting banks one at a time, they have had some success. More information (in Italian only) is available on the Campagna Banche Armate website.
Other Italian campaigns can be found at www.disarmo.org
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 Belgium: Bank Investment Campaign
Four Belgian organisations, including the bank-watch organisation Netwerk Vlaanderen, have been running the campaign 'My Money. Clear
Conscience?', encouraging banks not to use their clients' money to invest in the weapons industry. Four major Belgian banks have so far reassessed their investment policy. More on the Netwerk Vlaanderen website.
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Caterpillar's D9 armoured bulldozers are used by the Israeli army to destroy Palestinian homes, often with people still in them. The Caterkiller campaign takes direct action and promotes a consumer boycott of Caterpillar. War on Want have also produced a report on Caterpillar and Palestine.
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The next UK census will be in 2001. Census Alert is campaigning to stop it being run by arms company, Lockheed Martin.
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The No WARP!, the Network Opposed to Weapons and Related Production is part of Peace Movement Aotearoa in Aotearoa / New Zealand and is dedicated to campaigning for the production and export of socially useful products, not those designed to maim, kill and destroy.
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The War Resisters League in the USA has started a Stop the Merchants of Death campaign to to expose and stop corporations' war making and war profiteering.
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The Control Arms campaign is being run jointly by Amnesty International, the International Action Network on Small Arms and Oxfam. It aims to build global pressure for an International Arms Trade Treaty, and has produced reports on issues surrounding the arms trade.
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