Nottinghamshire Indymedia

Events

Startpage

> UK Indymedia
> Global Indymedia

> Guidelines
> Chatroom
> About Us
> Security

> Projects
> On Ya Mobile
> Local Weather

Support Us

We are an all volunteer collective and receive no regular funding. Please consider donating.


Local Events

This events wire is no longer being updated. Please use the new site to publicise events.

More local events on Veggies/Sumac Diary


Freedom of Information

Search archives

Topics

Analysis
Animal Liberation
Anti-militarism
Anti-racism
Bio-technology
Climate Chaos
Culture
Ecology
Education
Energy Crisis
Free Spaces
Gender
Globalisation
Health
History
Indymedia
Iraq
Migration
Ocean Defence
Other Press
Palestine
Repression
Social Struggles
Technology
Terror War
Workers' Movements
Zapatista

Kollektives

Birmingham
Cambridge
Liverpool
London
Oxford
Sheffield
South Coast
Wales
World

Other UK IMCs
Bristol/South West
London
Northern Indymedia
Scotland

IMCs


www.indymedia.org

Projects
print
radio
satellite tv
video

Africa

Europe
antwerpen
armenia
athens
austria
barcelona
belarus
belgium
belgrade
brussels
bulgaria
calabria
croatia
cyprus
emilia-romagna
estrecho / madiaq
galiza
germany
grenoble
hungary
ireland
istanbul
italy
la plana
liege
liguria
lille
linksunten
lombardia
madrid
malta
marseille
nantes
napoli
netherlands
northern england
nottingham imc
paris/île-de-france
patras
piemonte
poland
portugal
roma
romania
russia
sardegna
scotland
sverige
switzerland
torun
toscana
ukraine
united kingdom
valencia

Latin America
argentina
bolivia
chiapas
chile
chile sur
cmi brasil
cmi sucre
colombia
ecuador
mexico
peru
puerto rico
qollasuyu
rosario
santiago
tijuana
uruguay
valparaiso
venezuela

Oceania
aotearoa
brisbane
burma
darwin
jakarta
manila
melbourne
perth
qc
sydney

South Asia
india


United States
arizona
arkansas
asheville
atlanta
Austin
binghamton
boston
buffalo
chicago
cleveland
colorado
columbus
dc
hawaii
houston
hudson mohawk
kansas city
la
madison
maine
miami
michigan
milwaukee
minneapolis/st. paul
new hampshire
new jersey
new mexico
new orleans
north carolina
north texas
nyc
oklahoma
philadelphia
pittsburgh
portland
richmond
rochester
rogue valley
saint louis
san diego
san francisco
san francisco bay area
santa barbara
santa cruz, ca
sarasota
seattle
tampa bay
united states
urbana-champaign
vermont
western mass
worcester

West Asia
Armenia
Beirut
Israel
Palestine

Topics
biotech

Process
fbi/legal updates
mailing lists
process & imc docs
tech

25ft Gun Demo A Success

Notts Arms Dump | 14.11.2009 11:10 | Anti-militarism | Globalisation | Social Struggles | World

On Friday the 13th November 2009 in Nottingham, Anti-Militarists and other activists marched to the gun makers Heckler and Koch in Lenton, Nottingham.





The whole demo was a success, in terms of people turning up and taking part and also for the fact that a few people said they'd never been on a demo before and had pledged to get involved in demo's against the arms trade and capitalism in the future...That's what the day was all about - creating publicity for the campaign against Heckler and Koch...The struggle continues...watch this space for more action later this year and early next year....

Thanks to those that came along.

One word about the 25ft gun...It was in a bit of disarray and needed repairs throughout...But fear not, the model makers know what to do for next time to make it bigger and better and stronger!!

Notts Arms Dump
- e-mail: cophaternumber1@live.com
- Homepage: http://www.nottsarmsdump.wordpress.com

Download this article in pdf format >>
Email this article to someone >>
Submit an addition or make a quick comment on this article >>

Well done to all involved

14.11.2009 14:38

The giant gun was awesome, well done to the makers, organisers and people who attended this protest. You've put the spotlight on the scum at H&K.

I saw one of the wretched H&K employees in the city centre a few weeks ago. When he noticed me taking an interest in his HK name tag, him and his chum scuttled out of the shop in terror, leaving their purchases behind.
The campaign is having an effect - the vermin employees of this company know they are hated by the residents of Nottingham, and I'm sure won't even dare wear their HK name tags outside of their police guarded compound in future.

Attendee


Looked life a fun demo

14.11.2009 20:55

but Vermin employees??, is that comment for real??. Seems many of their employees are ashamed that the guns they make are used by repressive regimes, the arms trade should be far, far, far more regulated.
Many people in Nottingham worked in the arms trade for many years until recently, most of them were not vermin thank you. Nottingham was the major supply point via Chetwynd for the whole army,most people were ashamed of the imperialism& Ghandi was welcomed in Beeston, but we were proud help stop Nazism & Stalinism.
PROUD
This campaign is great, but if there any Stalinist-Maoist Leaders in it & I know 99% disagree with them, we should challenge them for the millions who died due to the Soviet & Maoist jackboot. Many older & people born in Nottingham see these well known Stalinists one day promoting Stalin & the next on anti arms or war demos & think WTF!!. They can put many good people off,

Until democracy is more real & globalised guns are needed to defend what little democracy we have & they should be in trained regulated hands like in Switzerland or the legal pre WW2 Spanish republic which was starved of weapons to defend itself& ended up being extorted at least 25% above market value by Stalin
 http://www.gutenberg-e.org/kod01/frames/fkod16.html
Guns should not used to defend oil corporations or corruption or sold to repressive regimes, but they are needed& should be in legal, democractic hands.

Nottinnghammer


Any one who packs a gun has no place in Nottingham!

15.11.2009 19:27

It is no more socially acceptable to work in a state sanctioned and police protected weapons dealers than to deal guns on the streets. If any one tries to justify guns for law enforcement officers, just consider:

1) they are more likely to shoot some one by mistake if you have a gun than if you don't,

2) they are more likely to be shot by someone else if you have a gun than if you don't,

3) police who kill are not accountable to the law in the same way as anyone else;
 http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/shot-dead-by-police-30-officers-convicted-0-511859.html


Henry Twigger


actually...

16.11.2009 15:10

most of the people involved in the building of the gun and organising the demo were anarchists, primitivists and other 'types" of libertarian socialists.....other people attending have their own views and beliefs, proving that anti arms traders come from a wide range on the "spectrum". the people who paid for the gun to be built were anarchists. the squat where it was built was anarchist-ran...aside from talking to the police to organise an escort and make it legal (to protect activists on licence), the demo was pretty much one by anarchists opposed to heckler and koch and war in general. i was involved, and i call myself an anarchist

and on h and k employees, they should be ashamed and, as bad as this may sound, they should leave h and k and find employ elsewhere. this is serious people, not arm chair politics. people die because of h and k. h and k need to be stopped. if someone takes a job with them, a job they will have been "offered", no one is forcing them, although if they are pressured enough to leave, then that will be good for anti-arms traders. then they will be unemployed, but they will be "offered" other jobs. to argue too much over the rights of employees working for disgusting companies like h and k, is to take away the realness of what h and k do...they sell objects that are used to kill and maim and cause untold suffering.
who in their mind would want to work for h and k?
and please dont comment on the need to work and pay rent and taxes, i work and pay rent and taxes, but i dont need to work for scum to achieve it........

i thought the day passed off great and look forward to more demo against heckler and koch.....

an attendee and 25ft gun builder