weapons & young people

Peace campaigners challenge wasteful Armed Forces Day spending as Rushmoor Borough Council and arms companies pour hundreds of thousands into national event

Press Release by a coalition of peace and anti-war organisations - Peace Pledge Union, ForcesWatch, Campaign Against Arms Trade and Quakers in Britain; supported by Veterans for Peace Britain

York Armed Forces Day: ‘rage-bait’, militarism and the authorised ‘knowers’

York resident Joe Glenton reports on the controversy around York's Armed Forces Day in the national press after it was reported that military equipment had been 'banned' by the local Labour council.

Warrior Nation podcast – What’s wrong with Armed Forces Day?

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Kids with guns