The Canadian Friends Service Committee (CFSC) has posted on social media:
“Join us on April 16th at 3 pm Eastern time (8 pm in the UK) to hear from Pete Doubtfire from Quaker Roots in Britain. Pete will discuss successes and lessons learned during their activism against DSEI – Britain’s biggest arms fair.
Brent Patterson from Peace Brigades International Canada will also speak to organizing around Canada’s arms fair – CANSEC (May 27-28 in Ottawa) and Mel Burns from CFSC will discuss our plans for Friendly actions during CANSEC.”
You can register for this webinar here.
Webinar speakers: Pete Doubtfire, Brent Patterson, Mel Burns.
Additional reading
–PBI-Canada observes protests at the DSEI arms fair in London, hears concerns about violations of human rights (PBI-Canada, September 12, 2025)
–PRELIMINARY FINDINGS from Order Paper Question on the CANSEC arms show and human rights considerations (PBI-Canada, November 11, 2025)
–Country report: The export of “military goods” to Indonesia; attacks against human rights defenders (PBI-Canada, February 2, 2026).
VIDEO: “On 3rd September 2019, hundreds of Quakers from across the UK joined other faith groups in taking collective nonviolent action against the DSEI arms fair, one of the world’s biggest trade shows for the ‘defence’ industry.”
