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DSEi Blockade Photos

Paul | 02.09.2003 11:28 | DSEi 2003 | London | Oxford

Yesterday, 1st September, contractors and exibitors started to arrive at the largest arms fair in the world. Peace campaigners were waiting for them.

Tripods blocked one access to DSEI
Tripods blocked one access to DSEI

Campaigners in arm tubes blocked the other access
Campaigners in arm tubes blocked the other access

Police admire a placard
Police admire a placard

Spirits were high and giggling common
Spirits were high and giggling common

The second tripod
The second tripod


September 11th attack on the twin towers happened during the 2001 arms fair but the selling of weapons continued uninterrupted. No minutes of silence just profit from the fuelling of conflict, war, oppression and human rights abuses. A third of the population dies in East Timor with the help of out weapons. At this very moment people are being killed and oppressed in Aceh, Indonesia with our weapons. Without this arms fair, where countries shop for weapons they will use against each other, the ability to destroy bodies and lives would be reduced.

Peace campaigners believe that they can disrupt the arms fair and increase the cost of running it and therefore stop it in future years.

It can be stopped if enough people are aware of what is happening and the fact that our taxes are supporting this abhorrent business.

Paul

Comments

Display the following 11 comments

  1. positive tripods. — Greenlantern
  2. cool — pete
  3. What the hell? — Jack Steed
  4. Illogical rubbish from Jack Steed — Paul
  5. Wish I were there — Suzie
  6. Wicked! — Erin
  7. Why IndyMedia Sucks — Rebel W
  8. DIY kulcha — ciderpunx
  9. To Rebel w — dfg
  10. Argh! — Katie
  11. To all the nay sayers — Andy w