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Audio from protest at Heckler & Koch weapons manufacturers HQ in Nottingham

Notts imcer | 24.07.2007 19:52 | DSEi 2007 | Anti-militarism

About 30-40 people gathered at the UK headquarters of Heckler & Koch, the world's second-largest manufacturer of handguns, assault rifles, submachine guns, machine guns and grenade launchers. It was recently found out that their HQ is based on an industrial estate in Lenton, Nottingham so some people decided to pay them a visit. There were about the same amount of police officers as protesters, in an attempt to keep them off the actual estate where the company is based. There was also the honour of the Forward Intelligence Team (FIT) who travelled all the way from London for the event. The demonstration was called by the Nottingham group of 'Disarm DSEi' which is a grassroots campaign against the UK’s largest arms fair, at which Heckler & Koch will be exhibiting their weapons later this year. For more information visit  http://disarmdsei.evey.org/

Interview with one of the protesters - mp3 3.4M

What are we here for? - short speech - mp3 1.8M


Article with photos from the demo:  http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/nottinghamshire/2007/07/376847.html

Previous article with background info:  http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/nottinghamshire/2007/07/376523.html

Nottingham Disarm DSEi website:  http://disarmdsei.evey.org/

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