How about occupying some oil company headquarters on February the 15th. Already there is a planned mass sit down protest at Piccadilly Circus after the main demo. But how about turning the whole day into a day of mass anti-war actions going on late into the evening with occupations of oil compnay headquarters and petrol stations!

What a great idea! A pan-London petrol station/oil company HQ sit-in would definitely gain more news coverage than just the demonstration on its own.

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DIRECT ACTION AGAINST THE WAR MACHINE

CAPITALISTS Arms companies would not exist if there were no wars or conflicts. Thus,
they encourage them directly and indirectly to sustain themselves on blood. Oil
companies demand the acquisition of more sources of oil - as in Iraq today. Both of
these sectors of capitalism have close links to the Bush & Blair regimes.

ARMS COMPANIES

GKN, 7 Cleveland Row, London, SW1A 1DB.

Hunting, 3 Cockspur Street, London, SW1Y 5BQ. Oil Services, Defence Engineering
and Military Support. Divisions include management of the Atomic Weapons
Establishment on behalf of the Ministry of Defence.

Alvis, 34 Grosvenor Gardens, London, SW1W 0A. Producer of armoured fighting
vehicles.

OIL CORPORATIONS British Petroleum Co: Britannic House, Moor Lane, London EC2Y
9BU.

Royal Dutch / Shell Group: c/o Shell Centre FNX/6, London SE1 7NA

ESSO: ESSO House, 96 Victoria Street, London. SW1E 5JW.

Shell U.K. Ltd., Shell Mex House, The Strand, London, WC2R ODA

THE STATE The government assists the forces of capitalism, giving the system we live
under a democratic face. The MOD helps enforce and carry out the imperialist aims of
government. If there were no wars then these departments would not exist. Arms, oil and
government collude to create a climate favourable to war.

MINISTRY OF OFFENCE

Ministry of Defence, Main Building, Whitehall, London, SW14 2HB.

Army HQ: HQ London District, Horse Guards, Whitehall, London SW1A 2AX.

Reserve Forces and Cadets Association for Greater London, Duke of York’s,
Headquarters, Turks Street, Chelsea, London, SW3 4RY.

Defence Export Services Organisation, Metropole Building, Northumberland Avenue,
London, WC2N 5BL. DESO is part of the Ministry of Defence, and assists companies
with advice on marketing defence products and services overseas.

Disposal Sales Agency, Hercules House, 6 Hercules Road, London SE1 7DJ.
Responsible for the sale of surplus MOD equipment and stores.

AFCO London St Christopher House, Southwark Street, London, SE1 OTD. Armed
Forces Careers Office

DIRECT ACTION AGAINST THE WAR MACHINE


February 15th will be the biggest anti-war march we have ever seen, but will it be that
different? Marching from A to B, constrained, controlled, imprisoned and made impotent
by barriers, police and stewards. There will be hundreds-of-thousands of us and yet our
voices will be ignored. Our leaders, who are nothing more than elected dictators, are out
of control.

None of the three main parties would change their policy to war if they happened to be in
power right now. That’s because this war is their war: the war of capitalism and
imperialism. Politicians simply control the way capitalists operate, controlling and
directing various vested interests as they arise at different points of time, and if they
happen to be brave - balancing public opinion with the needs of the market. In this case,
war was decided months ago, straight after the World Trade Centre came tumbling to
the ground. The ‘UN route’ is simply a diversion to gloss over the illegitimacy of a war
against Iraq, using the UN as a fig leaf for the stark necessities of imperialism.

The leadership of the anti-war movement organises mass rallies, alongside local
initiatives. Its been doing this for more than a year now yet war seems more inevitable
than ever. The simple fact is that the war machine can ignore our voices if we continue
to be herded around. What is missing is mass action. Overleaf are potential government
departments, state organs and capitalist headquarters who collude to bring us war and
death. This information is available to all on the internet, and not a secret; by making
these potential targets for non-violent direct action public, autonomous groups and
individuals can arrange to take action. This might be before, during or after the march on
February the 15th. It could be separate from the big march, or part of it - it really doesn’t
matter.

Our opposition to the war stems from a moral commitment to peace and equality, in
opposition to Labour’s lust for military aggression and shoring up of existing inequalities
of wealth and power, globally and nationally. As anti-war activists, we need to continue to
show our commitment to direct action as a form of direct democracy. This means direct
action on the streets, on the day when thousands will be able to join us. It’s conceivable
that we might not be able to stop the war at all, but we can at least show the rest of the
world that war is not in our name but in the name of the dictatorship of the neoliberal
elite.


Main March: Assemble 12 noon at [A] Embankment (nearest tube Embankment) or [B]
Gower Street (tubes: Tottenham Court Rd, Goodge St, Warren St, Euston, Euston Sq)
at 12.30pm.

Critical Mass (Bike/skate/roller blade/wheelchair): Meet riders at 12pm under Waterloo
Bridge, South Bank to cycle over to the Embankment at 12:30pm and join the anti-war
march.

Sit Down Protest Against the War: Assemble in Green Park near Green Park tube at
5pm; walk to Piccadilly Circus for the protest. Please adhere to strict non-violent
guidelines.


STOP THE WAR

Director's Dialogue
Date: Thursday 20th February 2003
Time: 1pm
Venue: Peacock Theatre, LSE
Speakers: Professor Anthony Giddens and Dr Javier Solana

Javier Solana is High Representative for Common Foreign and Security Policy for the European Union. Prior to this, he was the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation's (NATO) ninth secretary general from 1995 to 1999, and a member of the Spanish parliament from 1977 to 1995 serving variously as minister of culture, minister of education and science and minister of foreign affairs.

This event is free and open to all, but a ticket is required. Tickets will be available and distributed from the 3rd February.

If you are an LSE student then tickets will be available from Monday 3rd February at the LSESU reception on the ground floor of the East Building.

If you are member of the general public or LSE staff then you can request a ticket by either e-mailing  events@lse.ac.uk with the title of the lecture and your mailing address or you can phone the public lecture ticket line on 020 7955 6100. A ticket will then be sent to you in the post.

For more information e-mail  events@lse.ac.uk or phone 020 7955 6043.

why did you occupy EXXON?

I'm not asking for possible reasons as I can figure out many myself, but why the people who did it did it?

and a few more details of what happened please, and how the police managed to remove people?

There are almost no criminal offences that office occupations entail, if you don't trash or intimidate.