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Disarm the Arms Fair Critical Mass

9 September 2017
11:00 - 14:00
Meet at Société Générale, Societe Generale, 41 Tower Hill London
Stop the Arms Fair logo

Stop Arming Israel! Stop The Arms Fair!

4 September 2017
10:00 - 20:30
ExCeL Centre, Eastern Entrance, Royal Albert Way London
Stop the Arms Fair logo

Free Movement for People, not Weapons!

7 September 2017
All day
ExCeL Centre, Eastern Entrance, Royal Albert Way London
White doves sit in the upper branches of a tree. A solitary dove soars wings outspread against a bright blue sky with wisps of clouds, the sun shining through the feathers on the tips of its wings and tail.

The business of war

8 August 2017
Sue Hampton writes about why she wants to do peace witness at an arms fair. I am sixty years old. I am shy by nature and I have never broken the law. For the last couple of years I have been attending Berkhamsted Quaker Meeting, where I have felt a sense of homecoming. I am...
The flames of six candles stand out against a dark background

Candlelit Vigil

11 September 2017
18:30 - 20:00
Meet in Tidal Basin Road, outside Royal Victoria DLR, Tidal Basin Road London
A large group of people sit in a circle in the road. Behind them there are more people standing up and a line of police in flourescent yellow jackets. Some are holding Palestinian flags and in the foreground is a brown placard bearing the CND symbol and reading 'homes not Trident'. On a fence at the other side of the road many different banners have been hung.

No to Nuclear Weapons: No to the Arms Fair

6 September 2017
09:00 - 21:00
ExCeL Centre (East & West Entrances), Eastern Entrance & Western Entrance, ExCeL Exhibition Centre, Royal Victoria Dock, 1 Western Gateway, London
A crowd of international activists stands outside a building in the dark behind a yellow banner with hazard tape marking at the top and writing that says ADEX in English plus more in Korean. They are smiling and several of them have their hands raised in the air. One is holding a scythe. They are holding placards written Korean, Arabic and English. The English writing that can be fully seen says #stopADEX and War Starts Here.

War Stops Here: Public Education Day on the Arms Trade

10 September 2017
10:30 - 16:30
ExCeL Centre (East & West Entrances), Eastern Entrance & Western Entrance, ExCeL Exhibition Centre, Royal Victoria Dock, 1 Western Gateway, London
A crowd of activists hold a banner in front of the Excel centre. It says When only 0.2% of jobs in the UK are related to arms exports #stopDSEI

Manchester activists plan to disrupt weapons sales at DSEI, the world’s biggest arms fair

8 August 2017
Military delegations from around the world will head to London for Defence & Security Equipment International (DSEI) – the world’s biggest arms fair – on the 12-15 September. Many of these delegations will be from countries with abominable human rights records. At DSEI, they will meet weapons industry salespeople who will have filled the ExCeL...