Webinar speakers: Laura Ferrer (Spain), Kirsten Bayes (UK) and Simon Black (Canada).
PBI-Canada will participate in the “Shut it Down: Global Actions Disrupting the Arms Trade” webinar on Thursday May 7 at 1:00 pm EDT.
To register for that webinar, click here.
The webinar will bring together Laura Ferrer from Desarma Madrid, a “platform for the demilitarization of Madrid [that is] against arms fairs and other events”, Kirsten Bayes from the Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT), “a UK-based organisation working to end the international arms trade”, and Simon Black from Labour Against the Arms Trade, a “coalition of peace and labour activists working to end Canada’s participation in the international arms trade”.
The webinar will be moderated by Brent Patterson from Peace Brigades International-Canada, an accompaniment organization that has linked the arms trade with violence against human rights defenders and communities.
The webinar will explore these questions with the panelists:
1-What is your organization doing to disrupt the arms trade in the city where you are located? What informs why you have taken on this work?
2-What is a key lesson that you have learned in this work?
3-What do you think would most strengthen the global movement to disrupt the arms trade? How do we take this to another level as we see military spending and militarism dramatically increase around the world?
4-What is next on your agenda? What is your next moment/next planned intervention to disrupt the arms trade?
5-What message do you have for those who will be mobilizing in Ottawa on May 27-28 to challenge the CANSEC arms show?
To register for the webinar, click here.
“Shut it Down: Global Actions Disrupting the Arms Trade” is jointly organized by Shut Down CANSEC, an Ottawa-based campaign to shut down the CANSEC arms show, and the International League of Peoples’ Struggle (ILPS), “an anti-imperialist and democratic formation” that works for “the cause of just peace” and “human rights in the civil, political, economic, social and cultural fields”.
Additional reading: PBI-Canada remembers Ueli Wildberger and the “menschenteppich” at the arms show in Winterthur, Switzerland (November 2023).
