Ban BAE

What’s Ban BAE?

Ban BAE is a campaign involving disrupting and stopping arms company recruitment of higher education students. Universities are a very important site for arms companies – they visit university campuses to recruit students and spread the lie that they are part of a morally neutral, acceptable business. Companies like BAE Systems, Thales, Rolls Royce and Cobham have stalls at careers fairs, give presentations and hold individual meetings with students. Funnily enough you won’t hear death or repression mentioned once.



Why?

Arms companies need graduates in order to survive and to do their work, so at recruitment fairs we can really hit them where it hurts. By showing them up for what they truly are (corrupt, unethical and oppressive) we can turn students and staff against arms dealers. There is already a shortage of students wanting to work for arms companies: by taking action against arms companies on campus you will be directly affecting their ability to thrive as weapons producers. The support given to the arms trade through university participation in arms trade recruitment is therefore a crucial link to break.

What could a Ban BAE campaign look like?

Where do I start?

Check our recruitment map to see who’s coming to your campus

Here’s a map of careers fairs over the UK where arms dealers are expected to attend but it’s not conclusive! If you know of a careers fair that we’ve missed out, let us know so we can put it up on the map. Get in touch with your careers service to see who’s coming to your campus and when. Look particularly at science and engineering fairs, though arms companies recruit from all disciplines.

View Arms Companies at Careers Fairs in a larger map

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