Latest Past Events

The Shadow World: Inside the Global Arms Trade – Film Screening and Discussion with Andrew Feinstein

Discussion Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87343078685 Demilitarise Cambridge will be hosting Andrew Feinstein to talk about the Global Arms Trade and its links with Cambridge University. Andrew is the author of “The Shadow World: Inside the Global Arms Trade”, which has been made into a documentary. A link to watch the documentary on Vimeo will be available for 24 hours on Monday, in which time we highly encourage you to watch it (but also don’t worry if you don’t find the time!) - we will then discuss this and the implications for Cambridge’s ties with the military industrial complex. At the end we'll…

Introducing Science for the People Cambridge

Meeting Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82022990440 Science for the People is kicking off in Cambridge this year - come to our first open meeting to find out about the societal implications of scientific work and what you can do about it! Originally an offshoot of the anti-war movement of the 1970s, Science for the People is a non-hierarchical activist and research group which tackles issues from the militarisation of scientific research to the political implications of scientific theories. This year the group is kicking off it’s first non-US chapter in Cambridge, starting with this first open meeting. We’ll be joined by a member…

SolCol Sunday Reading Group: Racecraft

***this event is online**** We'll be reading excerpts from Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life by Karen and Barbara Fields. Link to the text here: (Cn for text: racism, slavery) https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YPyE-QFLPXnSbCfuR6RzvywCc04_G3TS/view?usp=sharing Everyone is welcome, regardless of if you've been to a Solcol event before. We'll do a short summary of the text at the start, so no worries if you don't get through it/don't have a chance to read it. (it's a little long page-lengthwise but there's a lot of footnotes!) A meeting link will go out day of so keep an eye out for that. Feel free…