• BATH MEETINGS - ALL WELCOME.
  
  EVERY SATURDAY . Vigil outside Bath Abbey from 11.30 am to 12.30 pm. The "baseline" slogans remain "Troops Out of Iraq and Afghanistan", "No Replacement for Trident". Current campaign focus: querying the logic of those who think that it is OK for a country with a known large quantity of weapons of mass destruction (say the UK or the USA) to bomb others in case they had WMDs. Or might have them one day. Or does not have them but is friendly with a country that does have them.
  
  

  On Saturday 28th August (Bank Holiday weekend) the regular Saturday vigil will be another special event. We are bringing out the ballot boxes again - one so people can vote to spend upwards of £75 billion for Trident replacement, another for alternative uses for that money. Please come along and cast your vote. We are inviting the other Bath human rights/trade & development/justice/trades union organisations to support this, so if you have contacts in such groups, please pass the invitation on.
  
  TIME TO GO RALLY London November 20th a coach will be organised from Bath for this National Demonstration to get troops out of Afghanistan.Details to follow

  If you would like to receive regular bulletins from Bath Stop the War by email, send a message with the single word SUBSCRIBE in the subject to:- Contact us.
  
  

• NEED TO CONTACT YOUR MP/MEP?
  Go to http://www.writetothem.com/

• BRADFORD-ON-AVON PEACE VIGIL
  There is now a weekly Saturday peace vigil in Bradford-on-Avon, from 11.30 am - 12.30 pm every Saturday by the peace statue opposite Westbury Gardens by the Town Bridge.
  

• BRISTOL NEWS
  DAILY PEACE VIGIL - MON-FRI 5:30-6:30pm & SAT 3:00-4:00pm – on The Centre, opposite the Hippodrome. Every day since September 2001!

• Bristol Indymedia
  Bristol North South Forum
  Bristol Campaign Against the Arms Trade
  Bristol Weekly Vigil

• PUBLIC MEETING: 08 SEPTEMBER 7.00PM AFGHANISTAN: TIME TO GO,HOUSE OF COMMONS, LONDON, RIGHT SIDE ENTRANCE (Ask for Stop the War meeting) Speakers will include anti-war MPs and members of military families.
  
  
• Pressurize the new government

  With the election behind us and lots of new MPs, now is the time to pressurize MPs to put an end to government support for the arms trade, the replacement of Trident, the privatisation of war, and the war in Afghanistan. If the government is sincere in wanting to cut costs there are plenty of savings to be made in these areas. Please support these campaigns and get them to the top of your new MP’s agenda.

• STOP THE WAR COALITION NATIONAL MEETINGS AND EVENTS
  
  
• Latest Stop the War Coalition Newsletter Aug 18th 2010

• CND CAMPAIGN TO REVERSE TRIDENT REPLACEMENT

• WAR ON WANT have produced a report "Banking on Bloodshed" which highlights the role of the five major British high street banks in financing the global arms trade. The arms trade provides the destructive hardware used in conflicts across the world. It undermines development, contributing to the poverty and suffering of millions. The report can be downloaded from the link above. Let Vince Cable , UK Secretary of State for Business, Innovzation and Skills, know that this is not acceptable in a so-called civilised society. CAAT is also campaigning on this serious issue.
  
  

• The Campaign Against the Arms Trade's (CAAT) major campaign "Control BAE: reopen the Saudi corruption inquiry" - aims to do exactly what it says. Regretfully CAAT has had to withdraw its application for a judicial review of BAE's plea bargain with the Serious Fraud Office - see our press release. That doesn't mean we are giving up the fight against the arms giant BAE - far from it. Read here what you can do.
  
  

• CONTROL ARMS WEBSITE Since 2003, the Control Arms campaign has been calling for a global Arms Trade Treaty. More than 1 million people worldwide support us. We are now at a critical stage: The United Nations General Assembly is meeting in October 2008 and we want to say to all governments that the "The world is watching" and monitoring the work they do to support an Arms Trade Treaty with human rights at its heart. Without stronger international controls, arms will continue to fuel violence, perpetuate war, human rights abuses and poverty worldwide. In 2006, the Control Arms campaign secured a huge victory when 153 governments voted at the United Nations to begin work towards an historic, legally-binding international Arms Trade Treaty. This process needs to progress at a much faster pace. Help to push it along by checking the websites above. To see how far the arms dealers tentacles have spread play Catch the Bomb.

• OPPOSE ARMS FAIRS
  Defence Systems and Equipment International, or DSEi one of the world's biggest arms fairs has been sold by Elsevier Press to Clarion Events who organiseThe Betting Show, The Caravan and Motorhome Show and The Baby Show (four a year). CAAT is now putting pressure on this new owner and will continue to call on the government to end its support for DSEi. Please sign the new petition to the Chief Exec of Clarion to get out of this dirty business which is directly responsible for the deaths of thousands of innocent children every year.
  
  
  
• FORCES WATCH is a network set up in 2010 to expose the unethical way in which young people, often from poor backgrounds, are being groomed by UK armed forces recruitment agencies. In 2010 Forces Watch published research showing that the army visited 40% of London schools from September 2008 to April 2009. These visits were targeting schools in the most disadvantaged areas. In 2008/9, 31% of new regular soldiers were under the age of 18.
  
  
• MAKING A KILLING: Corporations, Conflict & Poverty
  
  
• INTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN TO ABOLISH NUCLEAR WEAPONS (ICAN)
  ICAN is a campaign from the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War. It's main aim is to achieve a Nuclear Weapons Convention to ban the development, possession and use of nuclear weapons.
  
  
• UK INVOLVEMENT IN IRAQI OIL RIP-OFF
  
  

• SIGN THE ON-LINE PETITION TO GET BLAIR CHARGED AT THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT
  Go to http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/WarCriminalBlair/ to sign up to the petition: "We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to Stand charged at the International Criminal Court with War Crimes committed in the illegal war on Iraq."

• ENOUGH A campaign started in 2007 to end the occupation of Palestine, and uphold international humanitarian law and over 60 UN resolutions which have been ignored by Israel and it's allies.
  
  

• CAAT have published figures for arms company shares held by UK universities. Check your institution's investments.
  Why is it that students have to pay for their training, while soldiers get their's for free, and are these university tuition fees being invested in arms companies?

• ALDERMASTON BLOCK THE BUILDERS
  Block the Builders uses non-violent means to prevent the building of a new laser facility at AWE Aldermaston, the first stage of a series of proposed developments which would enable AWE Aldermaston to build the next generation of nuclear weapons. If and when construction starts on site (and we believe this is now imminent) they plan to block the builders through a non-violent blockade of the site. For more information about the campaign, and how you can pledge to join in, or get regular alerts, go to http://www.aldermaston.net/campaigns/ and http://www.blockthebuilders.org.uk

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