Campaign Against Arms Trade press release re Global Day of Action on Military Spending

Activists blockade Queen's back yard to brand energy giant's nuclear power bid a ‘Right Royal Rip-Off'

Campaigners brought rush hour traffic to a standstill on Tuesday morning (11 April) to protest against EDF Energy's plans to build a new generation of nuclear power stations in the UK. All four lanes of the A302 outside EDF Energy's headquarters in Grosvenor Place - which runs alongside the ga…

A report on London CAAT's protest about Lockheed Martin's role in the UK census

Demonstration against Lockheed Martin and 2011 UK census processing

 

A small demonstration was held outside Victoria station to raise awareness of the fact that the government has paid Lockheed Martin £150m of public money to help run the 2011 census. London, UK, 19/03/2011.

When the cops were revelling in their unleashed brutality on DayX3, they also hit a 20 year old student on the head. At a press press conference on Saturday (video 1 | 2 | 3), it was explained how police neither let people accompagnie him, nor rendered assistance themselves. His mother has also explained how police were trying to stop him being admitted to hospital. After following a vigil last Fr…

Some pics of the day, and general impressions and musings.

Check out the reports on the occupation of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills and why this happened. 

Get to trafalgar square at about 1pm, and everyone's gone already. Luckily Imc timeline knows where people took off to. But once you lost the protest, there's no way of catching up. For the largest part people are just m…

Student activists have set up an education camp within the department for business innovation and skills on 20.10.10 after a demonstration rally.

London CAAT were outside the UKTI department today to call for government support to the arms trade to stop

A brief report on the Merchants of Death Free Walking Tour the London arm of Campaign Against Arms Trade carried out today.

Dateline: Westminster, London, UK, 17:00-20:30, Mon 01 Jun 09 – Inspired by the no-nonsense Direct Action attitude of the C20 Suffragettes, C21 Climate Rushettes bring together a hundreds-stong Pedal Power mass cycling action, beginning outside a Chatham House “Coal: An Answer to Energy Security” closed-door conference (clue 1: Coal??? No, NO and thrice NOOOOO!!!) and calling at diverse Clim…

Several hundred people protested at New Scotland Yard on Saturday afternoon under the 'against police violence' banner. They didn't manage to quite encircle the building, but held a powerful and empowering event which is part of a growing fight back against police state Britain.

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Tackling climate change and reducing poverty are mutually compatible aims, according to a report out today.

London Rising Tide's Greenwash Guerillas Brigade, Detection Platoon #1, moved into action this morning at 08:00 hours – targeting dirty great energy corporation Électricité de France (EDF) at the central London headquarters (HQ) of their UK subsidiary EDF Energy.   

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