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Bad Music Demo - Smash EDO Summer of Resistance week eight

Smashy | 27.06.2012 20:46 | Smash EDO | Afghanistan | Anti-militarism | Palestine | South Coast | World

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

A bad singer outside EDO
A bad singer outside EDO


Today activists bearing marracas, cymbals, a guitar and a saxophone made a cacophony of bad music outside the arms factory gates.

Last week Sussex Police nicked our sound system. Unperturbed tone-deaf anti-militarists sang Frank Sinatra, Jingle Bells and part of the sound track from Grease to the workers as they finished their shifts.

The local rag, the Evening Anus, published an article accusing Smash EDO of 'hijacking' the Olympic Torch ceremony by holding a mass demo (in Brighton) on the same day as the torch will reach Hove  http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/9784764.Smash_EDO_accused_of_hijacking_city_celebration/ - its really starting to seem like groundhog day, when we called our last mass demo The Argus accused us of planning to disrupt the Jubilee.

On top of that the MET have been emailing us asking us to liaise with them about protests at the Olympics, despite Smash EDO having no plans to demonstrate against the Olympics whatsoever.

We will be demonstrating outside Barclays, which provides services to EDO's parent company on the New York Stock Exchange and is the largest global investor in the arms trade, on Saturday at 1pm in North Street, Brighton.

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

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Arse crack

27.06.2012 20:55

not many people there
non-news

dave

The Met and the Flame

27.06.2012 21:49

sorry to hear about that with the met

when the flame was in the north east anyone associated with ar got there collers felt by the cops with phone calls asking to liaise and open dialog with the cops

we made it VERY clear no one was planning to protest the flame did they listen did they shite

good luck with the wepons inspections and dont let that shit wrapper argus get you down your doing a great job

Animal rights

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Observation

28.06.2012 05:57

You would have had more people at the demo if you had not banned Jewish people from your campaign

another dave

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Protests

28.06.2012 06:38

Four of you !!!

Was that it ?

Ha Ha
Ha Ha
Ha Ha
Ha Ha
Ha Ha
Ha Ha
Ha Ha
Ha Ha

LOL

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Hi

28.06.2012 08:07

You would have had more people at the demo if you had not banned Jewish people from your campaign

Jane

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Change and progress

29.06.2012 07:11

Now that the full story behind the expulsion of three Jewish supporters of Smash EDO is out in the open it is time for the campaign to fess up, make a statement and issue an apology.



Smash EDO, the Brighton based campaign dedicated to closing the local EDO arms factory betrayed its principles and stated creed when it asked three Jewish members to leave the group following a request from new members attached to the Palestinian Solidarity Group at Brighton University. The excuse being that these PSG members had previously been to Israel and felt "uncomfortable" around Jewish people, a more obvious case of clear antisemitism it would be difficult to find. Smash EDO in the face of falling support and membership grabbed the chance to get an increase in people but at the cost of bigotry and racism.
There was a clumsy attempt (regretfully aided by some of the mods on Indymedia UK) to try and hide the expulsion with Smash EDO insiders refusing to discuss it and referring to the issue as "an internal matter that is now closed" however with the whole issue now blown wide open by the article in 'Schnews' magazine and the discussions on a number of Arms Trade Protest internet boards that has failed.



Smash EDO needs to be open and to issue an apology.

Ian

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