Transform Defence
Transform Defence for Sustainable Human Safety Continue reading
Our Campaigns
Five Percent Campaign, Make Apartheid History and From Pink to Prevention are all TPNS initiatives.
Delivering sustainable cuts to global military spending
Divert. Transform. Sustain.
Targeting global military spending – and the public perception of it – in order to redirect our taxes and fund ‘what the world wants and needs’. Continue reading
Green New Deal Plus
Green New Deal Plus argues that we cannot exempt the world’s militaries from all current and future plans for Green New Deals, wherever they may be advocated. Continue reading
Make Apartheid History
Make Apartheid History (once and for all) is an international project that brings together creative individuals, organisations and networks from around the world Continue reading
From Pink to Prevention
Tipping Point North South and the Alliance for Cancer Prevention is partnered on this campaign to increase the level of debate and public awareness concerning one issue – breast cancer and its links to the wider (polluted) environment including the home and workplace. Continue reading
Our Films
supported by Tipping Point Film Fund
Open Bethlehem
What would you do to save Bethlehem? In 2004 director Leila Sansour set out to find the answer for herself. Four years later, she found it. Continue reading
We Are Many
It is the story of an untold chapter in the history of people power. By turns uplifting and chilling, it reveals both the power and potential of ordinary people, as well as the dark underbelly of the war machine.
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The Power of Us
The Power of Us, a film about co-operation, is fully developed.
Co-operation is in our DNA – from the personal to the political, from the social to the economic. The fruits of this human endeavour is all around us to see – and not least in the global economy where co-ops have a turnover of $1.1 trillion, represent 800m members securing the livelihoods of 3bn people.
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King Assassination Project (Working Title)
The film will look at more than 40 years of controversy surrounding the case. More importantly – and uniquely –offers an opportunity to put the case that King’s assassination was a direct result of the threat posed from his latter years activity(1965-68) as he led the civil rights movement into anti-Vietnam War and Economic Justice coalition building. Continue reading
Past Events
of Tipping Point events and partnerships
Attlee Remembered
A weekend of film, discussion and theatre celebrating the man, his life and domestic achievements of his 1945-51 Labour Government. Continue reading
Make Apartheid History Launch
Here is a selection of videos we have made for Make Apartheid History (once and for all). Continue reading
Bethlehem Unwrapped at Greenbelt
We were delighted to welcome a 3000-strong audience to our mini-Bethlehem Unwrapped Festival at Greenbelt this year which included music, dance, spoken word, testimony, poetry and Tom Pursey’s wonderful short documentary about B/U at St James’s Piccadilly. Continue reading
Event: Cancer Prevention – A Toxic Tour
The tour took in various sites of significance in relation to cancer prevention – or rather the lack of action on cancer prevention by government offices and other bodies Continue reading
Recent Posts
Our latest news, events and announcements
Open Letter to UK hosted G7 meeting. Military emissions, climate change and net zero
Ahead of the G7 meeting in Cornwall, TPNS/Transform Defence published an Open Letter to PM Boris Johnson. Continue reading
Research Partnership with TNI State of Power 2021: Coercive World
The research for COERCIVE WORLD infographics was undertaken by TPNS/Transform Defence and covers military, police, homeland security and prisons around the world. Continue reading
Our new piece in the latest issue of The Environment magazine
Smoking Guns: how global defence spending hurts the environment. The Environment (May 2021) by CIWEM Continue reading
MLK Day: Dismantle Triple Evils and Transform Defence
The fact is that MLK’s ‘triple evils’ – poverty, racism and militarism – remain an interconnected ‘nexus’ that civil society has yet to fully address. What Dr.King says below of the USA in 1967 could apply to most nations on earth and most certainly the top 20 military spenders who in 2019 accounted for 85% of $1.9 trillion annual military total spend. Continue reading
