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Cambridge Students Disrupt Arms Company Recruitment

dmish | 16.11.2005 00:40 | Anti-militarism | Cambridge

This afternoon, about 15 students attended the University Engineering Society "meet your new employer day" at the Guildhall in Cambridge. This included such lovely folk as Rolls Royce, GKN, ExxonMobil, QinetiQ, Shell and Thales. The demonstrators went inside and screamed next to the Rolls Royce and GKN stands to protest against these companies. They were ejected by University proctors.

A protestor in bloody shirt
A protestor in bloody shirt

Next to the GKN stand
Next to the GKN stand

Being ejected
Being ejected

Outside the door
Outside the door

Outside the door
Outside the door

The Rolls Royce truck
The Rolls Royce truck

Toy grenades on the Electronic Arts stand (games company)
Toy grenades on the Electronic Arts stand (games company)


The action follows the start of a campaign in Cambridge to get the university to disinvest from arms companies.

Rolls Royce manufactures engines for military aircraft that have been sold to such lovely companies as Indonesia, Burma amd Saudi Arabia. GKN makes components for military aircraft used in Indonesia, Pakistan, Israel, China and Turkey.

dmish
- Homepage: http://ccaat.cambridgeaction.net/

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Well Done

16.11.2005 18:16

Well done. Sometimes it just needs someone to point out the obvious and lots of people start to see.

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