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12 June event shaping up!

After an afternoon with flipcharts all over the place, the agenda for the Get ready for the arms fair! event on 12 June is shaping up really nicely. Here’s how the day’s shaping up… 10am-10.30am Registration 10.30am-11am Welcome and Introductions 11am-11.30am Networking Take part in this session to meet others from your region and find...

Silent vigil on the eve of the arms fair (12th Sept)

A silent vigil to protest against the DSEI exhibition (Arms trade fair) 2011 at the Excel Centre, London (the DSEI arms fair is taking place on 13th-16th September 2011). Meeting at Tidal Basin Road next to Royal Victoria DLR station at 6.30pm and moving onto the ExCeL Centre (where arms companies will be setting up...

Something for the weekend: Disarming DSEI

On Sunday 12th June, the “Get Ready for the Arms Fair” planning event took place. Blogger Kirsten Bayes took part and had this to say about it… I spent the day with some of the most amazing people I have ever met (present company excepted, of course). They were gathered together to work out what...

Day of Prayer for an end to the arms trade

This year’s Campaign Against Arms Trade Christian Network Day of Prayer marks the beginning of the week in which the world’s largest arms fair (DSEI) takes place in the UK, and a poignant date ten years from the attacks on the twin towers: Sunday 11th September 2011. Many will already be reflecting on the legacy...

Transport sharing

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Direct Action training

For anyone who was at the Stop the Arms Fair conference in June (or wasn’t) and wants to check out/share/improve their direct action skills, come to the awesome Earth First Gathering. Wed 10th August – Monday 15th August, at lovely site in Norfolk. Check out the workshop schedule here.

Down the Drones

This year, the Defence and Security Equipment International (DSEI) will showcase a large exhibition of Unmanned Systems, or ‘drones’ – the robotic military planes that are used in targeted killings and are killing civilians in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Libya and Yemen. The indiscriminate nature of drone attacks is breeding anger and resentment amongst ordinary people in...

Occupy the DLR on 13 Sept

Arming repressive regimes. Boosting arms company profits. Displaying the latest killing technology. It’s an event you don’t want to miss. The world’s biggest arms fair – DSEI – is coming to East London this September. Unless we stop it. This year we’ve witnessed more of the horror that comes when the UK arms repressive regimes...

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