Globalise Resistance are now affiliated to the Disarm DSEi campaign against Europe's biggest arms fair which takes place 9th till 12th September this year. Our main protest will be on the 9th along with the Campaign Against the Arms Trade and plenty of other people.
Having taken part in many protests to oppose the imperialist wars against Afghanistan and Iraq, we feel obliged to target one of the root causes of war. Without the arms trade there could be no war.
DSEi arms fairs have a history of selling weapons (and also torture implements) to governments with appalling human rights records. Many of which are governments of third world countries which would do far better to spend these huge sums of money on healthcare and education for their impoverished people.
Such irresponsible sales are by no means restricted to the DSEi. The entire arms trade is a very murky business, rife with corruption. So we intend to use the occasion to make a statement against the whole of the so called "defence" industry.
Globalise Resistance believes that "defence" is but one particularly unethical sector of a morally bankrupt global economy and we recognise the role which it plays as the military wing of the kind of corporate globalisation which is being forced on the world by the western powers, through the IMF, World Bank and World Trade Organisation (etc!). As the saying goes, "You can't have McDonald's without McDonnel Douglas".
So we support the international call, for the scene of *Europe's biggest arms fair* to function as a European convergence point for anti-corporate globalisation protests, to coincide with the WTO meeting in Cancun, Mexico. Within the GR bloc we will certainly be making the link between the arms trade and the WTO, as we take a stand against the bigger picture of capitalist imperialism in general.
GR's main mobilisation will be on September 9th. Look out for the distinctive orange flags and some enormous pink tanks.
DSEi arms fairs have a history of selling weapons (and also torture implements) to governments with appalling human rights records. Many of which are governments of third world countries which would do far better to spend these huge sums of money on healthcare and education for their impoverished people.
Such irresponsible sales are by no means restricted to the DSEi. The entire arms trade is a very murky business, rife with corruption. So we intend to use the occasion to make a statement against the whole of the so called "defence" industry.
Globalise Resistance believes that "defence" is but one particularly unethical sector of a morally bankrupt global economy and we recognise the role which it plays as the military wing of the kind of corporate globalisation which is being forced on the world by the western powers, through the IMF, World Bank and World Trade Organisation (etc!). As the saying goes, "You can't have McDonald's without McDonnel Douglas".
So we support the international call, for the scene of *Europe's biggest arms fair* to function as a European convergence point for anti-corporate globalisation protests, to coincide with the WTO meeting in Cancun, Mexico. Within the GR bloc we will certainly be making the link between the arms trade and the WTO, as we take a stand against the bigger picture of capitalist imperialism in general.
GR's main mobilisation will be on September 9th. Look out for the distinctive orange flags and some enormous pink tanks.
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How can I find out more about DSEi and the groups involved...?
28.06.2003 14:39
If you send an email to
And there's a Disarm DSEi phone too, if you want to ask talk to someone about it.
The next OPEN MEETING is 26th July. Venue to be announced.
Disarm DSEi
e-mail:
DSEi2003-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
Homepage:
http://www.dsei.org/
Correction (web link)
28.06.2003 15:29
me again
Homepage:
http://www.dsei.org
DESTROY DSEi - open meetings
29.06.2003 09:11
SHUT DOWN THE ARMS TRADE BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY.
JOIN THE DAY OF BLOCKADES ON 10TH SEPTEMBER
THERE WILL BE NO GUIDELINES OR RULES ON THIS DAY.
DESTROY DSEi
e-mail:
dsei_da@london.com
sarcasm ;-)
29.06.2003 10:48
mr sarcastic
Address of LARC and DSEi website
29.06.2003 13:29
62 Fieldgate St (corner with Parfett St)
London E1
Near Whitechapel + Aldgate East tubes.
AYNer
Homepage:
http://www.dsei.org
Next open meeting
29.06.2003 21:24
Sundays (every other) at 2pm at LARC
Destroy DSEi
Dont forget...
30.06.2003 12:00
sqoo