Expose London’s arms trade on 29th September

Expose London’s arms trade on 29th September
29 August, 2012

2 ½ hours on your bike. 9 arms companies. (Or 1 hour on foot and 3 arms companies!)

The global arms trade is on our doorstep. Conflict, repression and destruction around the world are fuelled by the weapons made in the UK. One year before one of the world’s largest arms fairs is due to take place to London, we want to expose the arms companies and show that wherever they operate there is opposition.

So, in one afternoon we’re going to visit nine of them! Anonymous buildings in Central London will be cordoned off with hazard tape and giant signs erected showing the real business that goes on.

Finmeccanica, just one of the companies we plan to highlight, has sold attack helicopters to Turkey for use against the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), military helicopters to Algeria for “battlefield and internal security requirements”, a border control and security system to Libya, drones to Pakistan, armoured vehicles to Oman. Others we will visit have sold weapons which were used to aid repression in Bahrain, and regularly supply one of the most repressive regimes in the world, Saudi Arabia.

Join us as we show that This is NOT OK.

If you’re on foot, meet at:

2pm at MBDA, 11 Strand, WC2N 5RJ (nearest tube: Charing Cross)
then proceed to
2.45pm at BAE Systems, 6 Carlton Gardens, SW1Y 5AD

If you’re on a bike, be at MBDA, 11 Strand, WC2N 5RJ, promptly at 2pm to join the critical mass cycle that will target nine arms company sites in just 2 ½ hours!

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