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URL:https://londoncaat.org.uk/events/the-arms-industry-in-the-era-of-covid
 -19-lessons-for-the-future-webinar/
SUMMARY:The arms industry in the era of COVID-19: lessons for the future we
 binar
DESCRIPTION:Soon after the COVID-19 pandemic reached the UK\, it became cle
 ar that the NHS was not sufficiently equipped or staffed to respond to the
  crisis.\n\nIn March\, the government put out a call for industry to conve
 rt its production to manufacture crucial medical equipment\, such as venti
 lators and PPE for frontline workers. To date\, a number of arms and defen
 ce companies have responded to this call – alongside existing companies 
 that manufacture medical equipment and others.\n\nWorkers at Lucas Aerospa
 ce called for exactly this kind of arms conversion back in 1976\, when th
 ey produced an Alternative Corporate Plan – now known as the Lucas Plan.
 \n\nJoin Medact on this webinar to discuss what a ‘just transition’ fr
 om industries that cause destruction to those that support peace and publi
 c health could and should look like.\n\nYou will hear from experts in the 
 field of arms conversion and a just transition for workers:\n\n 	Hilary Wa
 inwright – Founding editor of Red Pepper Magazine and co-author of ‘Th
 e Lucas Plan: A New Trade Unionism in the Making?’  \n 	Dr. Andy Haines
  – Professor of Environmental Change and Public Health at LSHTM\n 	Phil
  Asquith – Chartered Engineer and former Chairman of the Lucas Aerospace
  Combine\, Burnley site\n 	Dr. Stuart Parkinson – Executive Director of
  Scientists for Global Responsibility\n 	Sam Mason – Policy officer at 
 PCS Union and member of the New Lucas Plan project\n\nYou need to register
  for the webinar here.\n\n&nbsp\;
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