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Queen Mary has shares in arms companies.
These include £300,000 in Smiths Group; £33,000 in Cobham; and £160,000 in GKN.
These shares total approximately half a million, and fund the development and production of flight controls and engine components at Smiths, missile parts at Cobham, and components of the Eurofighter and the US air force’s F/A-22 fighter - part of the next generation of combat aircraft - at GKN.
Any kind of investment in arms companies sends out a clear message of support to the trade in death; Queen Mary on the other hand, is an educational institution and should be divorced from all such activity. Arms companies sell their goods on a global market to any country that has the money, however poor its human rights record.
It’s easy and profitable to have an ethical investment policy, and a simple first step is to sell these shares.
A student campaign at the School of Oriental and African Studies, also part of the University of London, led to their university selling its arms shares.
Don’t want to see your tuition fees being used in this way? Then add your name to this petition and help our campaign grow.
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