Anne-Marie

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Leaflet at the National Gallery

It has been great fun leafleting visitors to the National Gallery. In just an hour, you can get rid of loads of leaflets and talking to people gets a really good response. (Wearing artist smocks, berets and moustaches is optional!). It would be great if you could leaflet for an hour or two over the...

Wanted: artwork to challenge the National Gallery’s arms trade links

Last year the National Gallery hosted an evening reception to celebrate the first day of business at DSEI, the world’s largest arms fair. The Gallery allows arms company Finmeccanica to buy the opportunity to use the Gallery’s rooms for its ‘corporate entertaining’. By doing so, it is giving both practical support and a veneer of...

Take creative action to Disarm the Gallery!

The National Gallery hosted the official reception for the DSEI arms fair in 2011 and regularly hosts arms trade events. Stop the Arms Fair coalition has launched a campaign to Disarm the Gallery. We want to keep up the pressure with lots of pop-up creative actions around the gallery. Why not get together with your...

Disarm the Gallery!

27 January 2012

The National Gallery is one of our most iconic public institutions. It is also supporting the arms trade. To put a stop to this, the Stop the Arms Fair coalition has launched the Disarm the Gallery campaign.

Action against the arms fair in 2011

19 December 2011

Arming repressive regimes. Boosting arms company profits. Displaying the latest killing technology. The world’s biggest arms fair – DSEI – took place in East London in September 2011. In 2011, we witnessed more of the horror that comes when the UK arms repressive regimes — armoured vehicles used to suppress protest in Libya and Bahrain...

A radio appearance, and forward…

19 October 2011

The coverage didn’t stop after the week of action. Check out this Dissident Island radio episode (at about 18:50 in) to hear a London CAAT member discussing DSEI. Preparations to stop the next DSEI are already under way, as there’s no rest for the wicked. If you’ve got some free time and you’re London-based, do...

Grassroots coverage of the day of action

20 September 2011

See Indymedia’s post Disrupting DSEI – Monday to Wednesday for a run-down of the actions at the start of DSEI, including a timeline of the day of action. Below we’ve brought together a stream of posts from Twitter from the day of action, starting at 7am.

Press coverage of the arms fair

16 September 2011

11 Sep Britain Arms giant plans to show off new drone, Morning Star Campaigners have condemned plans by BAE Systems to showcase a new “autonomous” unmanned drone at this week’s London arms fair, citing evidence that the existing Reaper models have killed civilians in Afghanistan and Pakistan. [Link] Super warship targeted by protesters, British Forces...

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