As part of Rethinking Security's network, we campaign, act, and educate. Since 2016, we've talked to hundreds of policy-makers, activists, local residents and visitors to Bath & NE Somerset about the true meaning of 'Security'.
We have worked on a 'New Vision' response to the government's Integrated Security, Defence and Foreign Policy Review, speaking out for democracy and human and planetary security central to our Vision for the UK. You can see our comments on the need for a UK Security review here, and a formal submission to government here. Scroll down for news of our public meetings and workshops - we've been lucky enough to have some world-class speakers and we share their presentations below.
The national Rethinking Security website reports on progress with the Alternative Security Review as well as providing inspiring and practical resources for campaigners for a just and peaceful world.
If you would like to join us, see our contact page for info.
We teamed up with the New Oriel Hall Social Affairs Discussion group to show the documentary Theaters of War: How the Pentagon and CIA Took Hollywood looking at the relationship between the Pentagon, the CIA and American films and TV.
We were lucky to have the film introduced by Dr. Matthew Alford, a co-producer.
What's in the film? If you’ve seen Top Gun or Transformers, you may have wondered whether all that military machinery on screen comes with strings attached. Propelled into a road trip across America, Roger Stahl engages an array of other researchers, bewildered veterans, PR insiders, and industry producers. In unsettling and riveting detail, he discovers how the military and CIA have pushed official narratives while systematically scrubbing scripts of war crimes, corruption, racism, sexual assault, coups, assassinations, and torture.
After a good discussion there was an enthusiastic commitment to another joint event with New Oriel Hall Social Affairs Discussion group. It will be another film - probably on the Arms Trade. Watch this space!
If you missed the film and would like to be sent a link to view it online (free of charge), just email Bath Stop War on info@bathstopwar.org.uk
Our latest campaign focuses on the devastating environmental impact of the military.
Did you know that:
Extinction Pathway?
Speaker Dr Phil Webber, President of Scientists for Global Responsibility
at BRLSI on 2 November 2023
Britain has increased its military spending and is illegally enlarging its nuclear arsenal at a time; now there is talk of US nuclear weapons returning to the UK to be based at Lakenheath in Suffolk. All this when climate crisis threatens the Earth. Phil Webber explained how war and the global military industrial complex contribute to climate breakdown, what the effects of even a 'limited' nuclear war would be, and how we might move away from spiralling military spending that wrecks live to look for security elsewhere.
To see Phil Webber's excellent slides (PDF, 3MB) click on the image below