Arms Trade Campaigns
Local Campaign Groups
Research and Campaigning
Arms Industry
Government
The following campaigns, currently being run by other organisations, may be of interest to CAAT supporters:
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.
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.
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.
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.
The next UK census will be in 2011.
Census Alert
is campaigning against arms company, Lockheed Martin, which has been selected to run it.
The
Stop the Adelaide arms fair
camp aign in Australia campaigned to shut down the Asia Pacific
Defence & Security Exhibition scheduled for November 2008.
On 7th September the cancellation was announced. See
CAAT's press release.
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.
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.
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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