A crowd of campaigners outside the Ministry of Defence, home of UKDSE

Merchants of Death Tour


Four blue plaques saying: PALANTIR Targeting system used in Iran including Minab primary school bombing UKDSE/ICE Promotes and rubber-stamps arms exports to Israel & Saudi Arabia BAE SYSTEMS Makes 15% of F-35 warplanes used in attacks on Iran and in Gaza BOEING Sold bombs to Israel used in strikes on Gaza, resulting in multiple civilian deaths

 

Earlier this month, London CAAT hosted their latest Merchants of Death Tour, a 2 mile walking tour visiting locations linked to the arms trade in London.

They say, “We took an engaged and intrigued group of 30 people around some of the sinister sites of London and introduced them to some of the evils done by the organisations at these sites. We visited Boeing, Defence and Security Exports at the Ministry of Defence, BAE Systems and Palantir. These organisations are complicit in Israel’s genocide, a bombing that killed over 180 children in Iran and Saudi Arabia’s brutal war on Yemen. We put up blue plaques to highlight some of their reprehensible behaviour. It was an inspiring if sobering two and a half hours that left attendees committed to continuing to oppose the arms trade.”

They also treated the attendees and passers by, to a piece of street theatre, “Death and the Arms Trade”: where Death appreciates the work of the arms trade but even they find the cold calculating nature of the business chilling. Photos below!

London CAAT talking to campaigners outside BAE Systems in Carlton Gardens

Death addresses the audience in Trafalgar Square while Keir Starmer looks onLondon CAAT outside Boeing in Victoria Street with two campaigners holding the Merchants of Death Tour bannerA London CAAT speaker outside the Palantir offices in Soho SquareA crowd of campaigners outside the Ministry of Defence, home of UKDSE

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