ICAN UK campaigners blockade London Arms Fair

Action

Colleagues at ICAN UK promoted the report and joined hundreds of protesters from Campaign Against the Arms Trade (CAAT) and other groups which form the Stop the Arms Fair coalition to help block both entrances to the DSEI London arms fair last weekend.

Research for the Don’t Bank on the Bomb report shows that well-known British financial institutions such as Barclays, Lloyds Banking Group and RBS are investing heavily in companies that produce nuclear weapons and that are sponsoring the DSEI arms fair.

The messages were clear: Don’t Bank on the Bomb and Ban Nuclear Weapons Now! The action by ICAN UK also shows how the Don’t Bank on the Bomb report can be a good tool to help campaigners in their actions against nuclear weapons.

Read more about the action on ICAN UK’s website.

 

About Maaike Beenes

Maaike Beenes works for the humanitarian disarmament program for PAX in the Netherlands. She researches investments by financial institutions in producers of controversial weapons, notably nuclear weapons and cluster munitions, and is co-author of the reports ‘Don’t Bank on the Bomb’ and ‘Worldwide Investments in Cluster Munitions’. As part of the Don’t Bank on the Bomb campaign of PAX and ICAN, she works together with campaigners around the world to hold banks and other investors accountable for their investments in nuclear and other controversial weapons. She was involved in the negotiations for the Treaty on the Prohibition on Nuclear Weapons on behalf of PAX and ICAN.