Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT)
“London CAAT took part in the Global Day of Action on Military
Spending with a protest outside the Treasury. Placards contrasted the
UK’s military expenditure in 2010 (£38.954bn) with the number of nurses
that could fund (1.5 million) or the cuts the Ministry of Defence was
facing (8%) compared to the cut of the school buildings budget (67%). A
die in took place on the steps of the Treasury
and this gained the attention of a number of passersby. Inventive chants
such as Welfare not Warfare, A&E not BAE (Systems, one of the
world’s largest arms companies) and Sure Start not War Start also caught
the attention of the public.”