The Scrap Trident Coalition and Scottish WILPF will be leafleting on GCOMS at two venues. The Meadows, 11.30 – for 12 noon and then March for Science, 1.30 pm Waterloo Place, Edinburgh

The United Kingdom is the sixth highest military spender Two leafletersin the world with an annual budget of £45 billion announced in summer 2015.

Here is the GDAMS 2015 promotion leaflet for people to
download/copy/distribute. We are planning a simple, common action that
people can take on 13 April
http://demilitarize.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/GDAMS-leaflet-2015-A4.pdf

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CND stall in Leeds, At noon.

Global Day of Action on Military Spending event 11.00am – 4.00pm, Bonn Square, Oxford OX1, organised by Fellowship of Reconciliation and Pax Christi

The Silent Vigil will be between 10 and 11am in St Bartholomew’s Church Centre, Front Street, Newbiggin by the Sea, Northumberland.
http://demilitarize.org.uk/events/silent-vigil/

Student Action to call for military spending to be redirected to meet human needs.

Join us in Reading on 14 April in some creative street theatre: we’ll be inviting passers-by to give their input to a People’s Budget – asking them to tell us how to spend the £100 billion pounds for Trident on other items. It will be fun! As well as educational!

Action to call for military spending to be redirected to meet human needs.
GDAMS events will take place in Coventry University’s Technology Park, others in the city centre and outside the Council House. A letter of protest will be delivered to the offices of Lockheed Martin, demanding a public statement about its involvement in the production of cluster bombs.

Action to call for military spending to be redirected to meet human needs.
CND event in Bradford to mark the Global Day of Action against Military Spending. Demo, People’s Budget Stall, banners, placards and leafleting. Please come and join us.

Merseyside Peace groups will be leafleting against the vast sums of money spent by Governments on arms and warfare when it could be spent on much needed social welfare. We are also collecting signatures on a Pax Christie petition calling for the end of recruitment of under 18yrs into the armed forces. We’ll be outside the Armed Forces Recruitment Centre, Sth. John St.

Help us redistribute the £38 billion defence budget and the £100 billion for Trident replacement in better ways. Meet 11.00am @ DFID, 22 Whitehall, then to Department of Energy and Climate Change, Foreign & Commonwealth Office, Department of Health, Ministry of Defence, Horseguards Avenue at 12.30. Speakers from CND, MEDACT, War on Want, Scientists for Global Responsibility and Pax Christi.

The 4th edition of the Global Day of Action on Military Spending coincides, once again, with the release by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) of their annual statistics on global military spending.
Events around the UK and the rest of the world. Keep GDAMS informed of your events: gdams@ipb.org
http://demilitarize.org/gdams-2014/gdams-uk/