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Ratchet up the Racket: Smash EDO Summer of Resistance continues

Smashy | 11.05.2012 13:01 | Smash EDO | Afghanistan | Anti-militarism | Palestine | South Coast

Smash EDO have called for three months of direct action to close down EDO MBM - From 1st May to 1st August 2012.

On Thursday a group of us braved torrential rain to hold a surprise demo outside the gates of EDO.

On Friday, this time with the sun shining a larger group brought pots, pans, a sound system and a jazz flute up to the factory to usher the workers home at the end of another week (Friday is a half day).

There has been a demo outside the factory on every working day since the 1st May, with the police only showing up to the larger advertised ones. The workers are beginning to break their (presumably management enforced) policy of not engaging with protesters, if only to shout insults.

Next week there will be a Down the Drones demo on Wednesday and tomorrow there is a picket of Barclays, service provider to ITT, EDO's parent company, at 1pm on North Street.



Smashy
- e-mail: smashedo@riseup.net
- Homepage: www.smashedo.org.uk

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They enjoyed it

11.05.2012 14:45

Well if your intention was to intimidate the workers I can tell you that this will only reinforce their view of the Smash EDO campaigners. They laugh at you and your pathetic attempts to disrupt their business but as they all just got a sizeable bonus for increased production it's clearly not working.

Pots and Pans, a Jazz flute and half a dozen wasters - what a laugh.........

Brother of an EDO worker

pathetic attempts??

11.05.2012 21:18

I very much doubt the workers of edo were laughing at 'pathetic attempts' to disrupt their business when they woke up one morning a couple of summers ago to learn that their workplace had been totally trashed in the middle of the night and rendered useless for weeks. I bet they were shitting their pants and giving some serious thought as to whether they would return to that factory. Not only did these folk royally smash the place up but they were so confident in the convictions of their actions being lawful that they filmed themselves beforehand explaining what they were about to do and waited to be arrested. and guess what........ they were totally right. IT IS PERFECTLY LEGAL TO SMASH EDO BECAUSE THEY ARE COMPLICIT IN WAR CRIMES!!!!!!!!
How anyone can carry on working in a place where it is legally allowed to be smashed up with hammers and have their computers thrown out of the window is beyond me. The only reason this place remains open and operating is vast amounts of money and people in high places. Respect to those people who stand outside the gates with pots and pans and yes a jazz flute. You have undoubtedley caused people to leave their crap horrible job, made peolple think about wars far away yet so close to their doorstep, given the company a bad name, cost them money, lost them contracts and most importantly you have done what you said you were going to do... you smashed edo.
This campaign is a small point on a very large map of anti militarist activism but its actions speak a thousands words and encourages people everywhere to see that despite wars being fought very far away they are controlled, supported and have the armoury manufactured right here in our own back garden and that it can be and is met with fierce condemnation and resistance.
Peace

supporter

haha

13.05.2012 12:09

>> I very much doubt the workers of edo were laughing at 'pathetic attempts' to disrupt their business when they woke up one morning a couple of summers ago to learn that their workplace had been totally trashed in the middle of the night and rendered useless for weeks.

Jazz flute and his cronies didn't trash it. They stand outside and whistle dixey.


>> I bet they were shitting their pants and giving some serious thought as to whether they would return to that factory.

Your assumption is full of horse manure.

>> Not only did these folk royally smash the place up but they were so confident in the convictions of their actions being lawful that they filmed themselves beforehand explaining what they were about to do and waited to be arrested. and guess what........ they were totally right.

Horse shit. That is a total misrepresentation of the outcome. Pack of fucking lies and you know it.


>> IT IS PERFECTLY LEGAL TO SMASH EDO BECAUSE THEY ARE COMPLICIT IN WAR CRIMES!!!!!!!!

No - it is not. And EDO are not complicit in war crimes you tit.

>> How anyone can carry on working in a place where it is legally allowed to be smashed up with hammers and have their computers thrown out of the window is beyond me. The only reason this place remains open and operating is vast amounts of money and people in high places

Yeah whatever. Your little mind is obviously full of shit lies, but if you believe that crap then i guess it explains why you are a knob.


>> Respect to those people who stand outside the gates with pots and pans and yes a jazz flute. You have undoubtedley caused people to leave their crap horrible job, made peolple think about wars far away yet so close to their doorstep, given the company a bad name, cost them money, lost them contracts and most importantly you have done what you said you were going to do... you smashed edo.

Who is paying jazz flute and his cronies to stand outside EDO? Who is financing these cunts?

>> This campaign is a small point on a very large map of anti militarist activism but its actions speak a thousands words and encourages people everywhere to see that despite wars being fought very far away they are controlled, supported and have the armoury manufactured right here in our own back garden and that it can be and is met with fierce condemnation and resistance.

.... by a small minority who wield no power whatsoever.

laughed my ass off