BAE Systems is sponsoring New Scientist Live to deflect
attention from the devastating impact it has around the
world. Take action to stop arms and oil companies buying
credibility from science
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Dear friends,

Another year and we're very sad to see that the New Scientist is
still helping BAE Systems deflect attention from how it fuels and
profits from war and repression around the world.

"New Scientist Live" opened today at the Excel Centre in London,
and markets itself as "the world's greatest science festival",
offering "fun for the whole family."

Yet it lists two of the world’s most destructive companies, BAE
Systems and BP, as its primary sponsors.

Please take action today
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ask New Scientist to rethink its approach to sponsorship.

BAE sponsors events like this because it wants to improve its
reputation and normalise weapons manufacturing and, by extension,
war. The cost of sponsorship is a small price to pay for the
opportunity to present itself as a force for good in the world.

But what is New Scientist thinking?

Only last month, BAE Systems were exhibiting at the same venue,
at the DSEI arms fair, proudly showcasing its Typhoon
Eurofighters, the warplanes central to the devastating Saudi-led
coalition attacks on Yemen.

As it helps the company promote itself to children in the UK, has
the New Scientist considered the millions of children in Yemen,
facing BAE’s bombs, and the famine and disease they have caused?

Why does promoting science need to involve promoting companies
profiting from war and destruction?

We’ve asked the New Scientist about this before – and we know
some of you have raised your concerns directly – but it has so
far refused to engage.

Can you take action with us today, so that we can't be ignored?
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Science should be about preserving and contributing to life and
the environment, not destroying it.

Thank you

Campaign Against Arms Trade ( [link removed] )

Caroline

Campaign Against Arms Trade

P.S. In recent weeks and months, we’ve seen more and more
cultural institutions take a stand against unethical sponsorship.
Last week, after sustained and creative pressure from our allies
at BP or not BP, the Royal Shakespeare Company finally dropped BP
sponsorship. Public pressure has also persuaded National Festival
of Making and the Great Exhibition of the North to drop their
associations with BAE. Please help build on this momentum by
taking action today
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