• BATH MEETINGS - ALL WELCOME. See latest Bulletin for specific events in Bath. WE ARE NOW ON FACEBOOK!
  
  EVERY SATURDAY . Vigil outside Bath Abbey from 11.30 am to 12.30 pm. Our current focus:Scrap Trident, Troops Out Now & Campaign Against Arms Trade. We also query 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.
  
  NEXT LOCAL MEETING: fortnightly at 8 pm on the 1st and 3rd Wednesday of the month at the Friends Meeting House, York Street, Bath BA1 1NG. The next meeting:-.
  
  

• Wednesday 7th December
  Bruce Kent of the Movement for the Abolition of War. Bruce has offered us three titles – come along to the Vigil or a group meeting to discuss the choice, or email back to read them and comment.

  
  

• 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 Indymedia, Bristol North South Forum, Bristol Weekly Vigil

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

• CAAT Campaigns diary actions and events. Join CAAT's National Gathering on Oct 29th in London.
  
  
• Join the CND Cut Trident Campaign. Recent reports unearthed by CND show that not only is our nuclear deterant a waste of money but the nuclear reactors on Trident submarine are not safe. CND has also produced information showing that despite what the government says they are already spending money on Trident replacement despite it not being approved by parliament. Get your MP to sign the early day motion 1477 so that this spending does not go ahead.
  

  Scrapping Trident and cancelling its replacement would save us over £100 billion! Using just a fraction of this money we could invest in the development of marine energy technology and other forms of sustainable energy, providing workers in the defence industry with alternative employment – and creating tens of thousands of new jobs too.

  We don't want Britain to possess nuclear weapons with the power to kill 320 million people. Our money must be spent on jobs, pensions, education and health – we must improve the lives of the British people without threatening the lives of others.

• JOIN THE WAR ON WANT CAMPAIGN to say YES to ending the war in Afghanistan.
  Sixty years ago, the Guardian carried a letter from the publisher Victor Gollancz calling for people to join him in an urgent campaign against world poverty and militarism. Britain was fighting an unwinnable war in Asia, the Korean War, and Gollancz asked all who agreed with his call for a negotiated settlement to end the conflict to send him a postcard marked with the single word ‘yes’. Within a month 10,000 people had responded, and War on Want was born.
  
  Today Britain is mired in another unwinnable war in Asia, this time in Afghanistan and trade union leaders, politicians, lawyers, and human rights campaigners have now joined War on Want in calling on the UK government to end the war in Afghanistan. Sign up to our call now!
  
  
• Pressurize the Condemned government

  It's never to late to pressurize MPs to put an end to government support for the arms trade, the replacement of Trident, the privatisation of war, the war in Afghanistan and the invasion of Libya. 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 MP’s agenda.

• STOP THE WAR COALITION NATIONAL MEETINGS AND EVENTS
  

• CND CAMPAIGN TO REVERSE TRIDENT REPLACEMENT

• On the 50th anniversary of Eisenhower's farewell address in 2011, , where he warned against the unfettered growth of the "military-industrial complex", CAAT launched a new campaign "This is not OK". At the time Eisenhower said "In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist". The military industrial complex is even more powerful now and it needs to be stopped so please join the campaign now.

• 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.
  
  

• 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. 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 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 TONY 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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