Tomorrow’s DSEI arms fair will bring a roll call of despots, dictatorships and arms dealers to London
The DSEI arms fair opens at the Excel Centre in East London tomorrow
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Stop the Arms Fair Week of Action Day 6: Festival of Resistance
The Festival of Resistance brought local and global activists together to #StopDSEI. We were honoured to hear from activists from all over the world, including Brazil, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Hong Kong and Sudan, on the importance of international solidarity.
Stop the Arms Fair Week of Action Day 5: Climate Justice
The struggle for climate justice and the struggle to end the arms trade are closely intertwined. When fossil fuel resources are extracted, land captured, and communities displaced by governments and fossil fuel companies, it is arms that make it possible.
Stop the Arms Fair Week of Action Day 4: Conference at the Gates
An academic conference with a difference! Students, academics & community organisers are (un)/learning from each other, whilst protesting at the gates of an arms fair. "We want the arms trade to be exposed for what it is – a system that upholds racist, colonial, patriarchal, oppressive systems"
Stop the Arms Fair Week of Action Day 3: No Nuclear
Day three of the #StopDSEI protests saw a morning of back-to-back successful blockades of both entrances to the DSEI site, meaning vehicles carrying weapons and equipment were blocked from getting in.
Stop the arms fair week of action Day 2: No Faith in War
Day two of the #StopDSEI week of action and the roads to the arms fair were blocked for hours at a time. Today Muslim, Christian, Jewish, Buddhist, Quaker, Sikh, yogis, people of all faiths and none gathered to call for an end to the DSEI arms fair and all profiting from war. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76qs9SrMr04 Video footage
Stop the Arms Fair Week of Action Day 1: Stop Arming Israel
Day 1 of Stop the Arms Fair Week of action 2019 to shut down DSEI.
CAAT response to Saudi-bombing of detention centre in Yemen: A terrible atrocity that Downing Street is complicit in
Reports from International Committee of the Red Cross indicate 100 people killed in Saudi air strike on Yemen
