Yesterday, 1st September, contractors and exhibitors started to arrive at the largest arms fair in the world. Peace campaigners were waiting for them.
Access was blocked for six hours.
Access was blocked for six hours.
tripods blocked on access roads
Arm tubes blocked the other access road
Police admire a placard
Humour and conviction
September 11th attack on the twin towers happened during the 2001 arms fair but the selling of weapons continued uninterrupted. No minutes of silence just profit from the fuelling of conflict, war, oppression and human rights abuses. A third of the population dies in East Timor with the help of out weapons. At this very moment people are being killed and oppressed in Aceh, Indonesia with our weapons. Without this arms fair, where countries shop for weapons they will use against each other, the ability to destroy bodies and lives would be reduced.
Peace campaigners believe that they can disrupt the arms fair and increase the cost of running it and therefore stop it in future years.
It can be stopped if enough people are aware of what is happening and the fact that our taxes are supporting this abhorrent business.
See www.oxfordindymedia.org for more information.
GET TO DESI AND HELP SHUT IT DOWN
Peace campaigners believe that they can disrupt the arms fair and increase the cost of running it and therefore stop it in future years.
It can be stopped if enough people are aware of what is happening and the fact that our taxes are supporting this abhorrent business.
See www.oxfordindymedia.org for more information.
GET TO DESI AND HELP SHUT IT DOWN
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Accuracy
02.09.2003 15:45
Matt
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see previous.
02.09.2003 16:21
see my previous comment on listing of same at 1222 2.9 re; SRAM idea.
Greenlantern
accom for visiting delegates
02.09.2003 17:01
" Expotel have negotiated special rates at the hotels listed below, for people attending the DSEI 2003 at the ExCeL Exhibition Centre. This event is to be held on the 9/9/2003 until the 12/9/2003."
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Effectiveness and Accuracy
02.09.2003 23:19
NO VEHICLES OBTAIN ACCESS VIA THE EAST FOR SIX HOURS!
However, the tripod blockade at the west gate did not prevent small vehicles (panel vans etc) from gaining access.
After 2 hours and ten minutes, a route was made for larger vehicles through a construction site. Only one vehicle could pass in or out at the same time using this route so it was slow. Very large vehicles (extra large flat bed trucks) could not use this route.
The action certainly seems to have been disruptive. A contractor working on a display was overheard to be complaining to police that they were unable to get their work done until a delivery was made.
Well done everyone involved.
r
Hotel
03.09.2003 10:48
Mercury Kev