UK DSEi 2003 Newswire Archive
Call for DSEi / Arms related audio content for radio
19-08-2003 16:27
This is a call for audio content that can be used by radio projects broadcasting around the Disarm DSEi arms fair protests in September 2003.
Guardian linked to disarm dsei website
19-08-2003 14:55
Recent Guardian article last week "Out of arms way" linked to the disarm dsei website at the end of the webpage.New antiwar network
19-08-2003 13:56
Justice Not Vengence Northern launch meeting - 7pm, Wed 20th Aug, LeedsKids against clusters
17-08-2003 19:31
On Sunday, 17th August, a group of around 75 folk gathered beneath balloons in Parliament Square, London.Scotland DSEiI contact
16-08-2003 22:38
Actions againts DSEI, Europe's largest arms fair, will be taking place from 6th - 12th September 2003. There is now a Scottish contact for the event.PRESS RELEASE: International Protestors to Target UK Arms Fair
15-08-2003 18:19
MEDIA RELEASE15 August 2003, for immediate release
Thousands of people, from all over the world, are expected to travel to London in September to shut down Defence Systems and Equipment International (DSEi), Europe’s largest arms fair, which is to be held at ExCeL, London Docklands from 9 – 12 September 2003.
Gov report on Irish arms trade controls available
12-08-2003 21:13
Minister Ahern's review of Ireland's export controls"Mr. Michael Ahern T.D., Minister for Trade and Commerce today (Wednesday 6th August 2003) said that the review of Ireland's export controls system for dual-use and military goods is progressing..."
Corporate Watch on DSEi Arms Fair
12-08-2003 14:42
Debunking some of the corporate marketing speak and quotes around DSEi - Europe's biggest arms fair due to be held 9-12th September in London.From the new August Issue of Corporate Watch
http://www.corporatewatch.org.uk/newsletter/newsletter.htm
Globalise Resistance DSEi Protest + Prop Making Weekend
12-08-2003 14:02
Info from Globalise Resistance (GR) on their activities for DSEi anti-arms fair protests in September. GR are one of over forty groups organising against the arms fair.Main GR demo plus Prop Making Weekend.
SchNEWS on new MAI ahead of WTO Meeting in September (mexico)
12-08-2003 13:07
Good Schnews article on the World Trade Organization (WTO) and new Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI) - ahead of the WTO Ministerial Meeting in Cancun, Mexico in September. http://www.schnews.org.uk/archive/news417.htm
Mancester DSEI contact
12-08-2003 09:24
Actions againts DSEI, Europe's largest arms fair, will be taking place from 6th - 12th September 2003. There is now a Manchester contact for the event.Disarm DSEi Convergence Centre Now Confirmed
11-08-2003 13:50
Details of the convergence centre for DSEiThe horrifying truth about Lockheed Martin
08-08-2003 10:57
They still manufacture anti-personnel land mines, which they flog for as little as £2 each. Across the world, landmines claim a new victim every twenty minutes, that’s more than 26,000, mostly civilian, deaths and injuries each year.Norfolk County Council Demonstration Against Arms Investments
07-08-2003 18:08
Norwich Anarchists and others to demonstrate at Council meeting.Roof Top Protest at Smiths Aerospace - West Midlands
07-08-2003 14:21
At this very moment a number of activists are staging a roof top protest at the Smiths Aerospace factory in the West Midlands. The activists are protesting about the company’s production of electronics for the military industry.Arms dealing
05-08-2003 16:37
The arms trade has disastrous impacts the world over, and has even managed to show its ugly head in Oxford in the guise of the Said Business school. Oxford Universities new Business school opened in 2001 was mostly funded by Wafiq Said, a Syrian with links to arms dealing who fronted £20 million of the £45 million needed to build the school.Arms Dealing In London
05-08-2003 07:50
From the 6th to the 12th of September ExCel in London will host DSEi, Europe's largest gathering of arms dealers.Cambridge anti-DSEi planning meeting
29-07-2003 18:45
A small delegation from various Cambridge groups recently attended apreliminary planning meeting for demonstrations against the Defense Systems
Equipment International (DSEi) arms fair which will take place in London
from 9-12 September 2003, at the ExCel Centre. DSEi is the largest arms
fair in Europe and in 2001 was the venue for well over £500,000,000 worth
of arms sales completed on-site in 4 days.