Bikes not Bombs! Critical Mass action against the arms fair

Bikes not Bombs logoSunday 8 September, 10am, meet at Bank Junction, London EC2. Bring noise, colour, contempt.

Part of the day of action against DSEI, the world’s largest arms fair with 1,300 arms companies and 28,000 buyers. It’s all taking place at the ExCeL centre in London’s docklands.

We will also be riding to the arms dealers dinner on Thurs 12 Sept.

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Call for the September 8th Occupy DSEI mass action – from the Stop the Arms Fair coalition

In 2011 all across the world people took to the streets in from Greece to Spain from Egypt to New York. These uprisings where the first glimpse of a global movement against political and economic injustice. In 2013 the movement continues and has spread to Turkey and Brazil where people face brutal state repression.

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Call-out to stop the DSEI arms fair – Mass action 8th September 2013

The government is welcoming the world’s worst human rights abusing regimes to shop for weapons in London. WHAT WILL YOU DO?

A massive arms fair is planned to take place in the UK in September 2013. The UK government plans to invite human rights abusing regimes, such as Algeria, Bahrain, Colombia, Saudi Arabia and Vietnam, to the London arms fair to court them and sell them weapons.

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Report from the June 12 demonstration against militarism and capitalist violence

The anti-militarist demonstration on June 12 had been called by Smash EDO, Disarm DSEI and Sussex Stop G8 and was part of the Stop G8 week of action in London.

After an eventful Carnival Against Capitalism on June 11, which had seen a ridiculously over-the-top policing operation throughout central London, including a brutal raid on the Stop G8 convergence space, it was time to show the police and the arms dealers that neither mass arrests nor physical attacks would keep us off the streets.

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Call for an anti-militarist action against the G8 on June 12th

On June 12th Sussex Stop G8, Smash EDO and Disarm DSEI are calling for a mass Citizens’ Weapons Inspection in the West End. The meeting place will be BAE Systems, 6 Carlton Gardens, SW1Y 5AD. Join Us!

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Confront Counter Terror Expo: Confront the real terrorists!

25 April 2012, 6.30pm
Royal Garden Hotel, 2-24 High Street Kensington
Nearest tubes High Street Kensington and Knightsbridge

Join Disarm DSEi as we confront exhibitors at the so-called Counter Terror Expo — an event showcasing the latest equipment used by states to spy on, restrict and murder their citizens under the guise of “preventing terrorism”.

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Protesters confront battleship en route to world’s largest arms fair

Kayak vs HMS DauntlessToday, HMS Dauntless was disrupted en route to the world’s largest arms fair by protesters angry at a trade that inflicts untold misery and death across the planet. Protesters manoeuvred kayaks in front of the ships to prevent them gaining access to Royal Victoria Dock.

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Confront the arms dealers! Destroy the death fair!

10am, Tuesday 13th September 2011
Custom House DLR station (inside the station and on the trains)

Last DSEi we visited the banks, the backers of the arms trade. Offices were invaded and windows smashed.

This year we are returning to the belly of the beast and confronting the arms dealers directly.

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