East London Against Arms Fairs meets on the 2nd Wednesday every month. For information about how you can join in future campaigning against the arms fair please get in touch.
Annual General Meeting of East London Against Arms Fairs, ELAAF.
All supporters are urged to come to this meeting if they possibly can. If you only come to one meeting a year please come to this one.
The ExCeL Centre which threatens to hold another “DSEI” Arms Fair in 2015 also holds different exhibitions all year round which attract large crowds. ELAAF Musical Protests aim to raise awareness of the arms trade and campaign for the cancellation of all arms fairs at ExCeL or anywhere else. More supporters are needed. Just turn up and be welcome.
The ExCeL Centre, which threatens to hold another “DSEI” Arms Fair in 2015, also holds different exhibitions all year round which attract large crowds. ELAAF Musical Protests aim to raise awareness of the arms trade and campaign for the cancellation of all arms fairs at ExCeL or anywhere else. More supporters are needed. Just turn up and be welcome.
Join London Group of CAMPAIGN AGAINST ARMS TRADE Leafleting outside the London Transport Museum, Covent Garden Piazza , nearest tube Covent Garden. Protest at sponsorship of London Transport Museum by an Arms Company, Thales.
Anyone opposed to Arms Fairs will be welcome at a meeting of ELAAF
Every two years, one of the world’s biggest arms fairs, DSEi has been held in London. Hundreds of arms companies and thousands of delegates come to do business and buy advanced weapons. These weapons are used to kill and oppress people around the world.
DSEi plans to return to London in Sept 2015: we want to make sure that these plans are resisted, both in the months leading up to the fair, and if it happens, during the fair itself.
Through its subsidiary UAV Engines, Elbit Systems operates a factory in Staffordshire. The company regularly exports military equipment to Israel. Elbit is also a part of the U-TACS partnership manufacturing the Watchkeeper drone for the Ministry of Defence.
We are calling for people from across the UK to join a demonstration at Elbit’s UAV Engines factory to demand a military embargo on sales to Israel and from Israeli companies and to demand the closure of the factory.
We have witnessed the horrific impact of arming Israel as it attacks Gaza, and the repression in Bahrain and Egypt where UK weapons have been used to repress pro-democracy campaigners. It's time to take action. Join campaigners from across the North West for a day of workshops, and explore how you can make a difference.
Meet at 2.15pm at the Cowley Club at 12 London Road if you want to travel to the factory together.NOTE EARLIER TIME.
EDO MBM, owned by US firm ITT Exelis, on Home Farm Road, has supplied weapons, including equipment for the Paveway bomb and bomb release units, to many of the countries in the military alliance involved in attacking Iraq and Syria.
The company has obtained export licenses to export arms to Saudi Arabia, the US and France (see here – http://www.caat.org.uk/resources/mapping/organisation/1227).
More supporters (musical or non-musical) welcome.
Join the CAAT Christian Network in prayer and action for an end to the arms trade.
The Science Museum is hosting arms dealers Be there to show them some better science. Science-related fancy dress encouraged but optional!
http://www.stopthearmsfair.org.uk/events/o-mg-the-science-museum-is-host...
Farnborough International is a shop window for the world's arms dealers. This year it will host Russian and Ukrainian arms companies side-by-side, as well as the main weapons suppliers to Syria's President Assad.
A Quaker meeting for worship will take place outside the Farnborough Air Show. Non-Quakers are welcome to join us. Near the pedestrian entrance (Gate B) to the Farnborough Air Show.
Outside the ExCeL exhibition centre which is the chosen venue for another planned “DSEi” arms fair. 2-5pm. You can also join in if you are not musical. We need people to collect a petition, hold up posters, give out leaflets etc. Custom House DLR Station ( via the DLR itself ) or bus routes 147, 241, 325, 541 (541 is a free bus route from Canning Town) From Custom House DLR Station or Victoria Dock Road E16 3BY, follow the signs to ExCeL. We will be at the end of the walkway just before you get to the entrance to the exhibition centre.
This year U.D.T. 2014 [ Underwater ‘Defence’ Technology ] arms fare and conference will take place in Liverpool. This is an event which its organisers describe as: ‘The global event for underwater defence and security’. It is an arms fair. Merseyside Peace Network will be holding a protest outside of the event from 08:30. on the morning of June 10th. "On the last day of U.D.T., June 12th 2014, a wreath will be presented to the organisers of the arms fare in memory of all those who will be killed as a result U.D.T. 2014".
Demo outside London Transport Museum re their sponsorship by arms company Thales.
We will have leaflets to hand out and a banner. See http://www.caat.org.uk/campaigns/public-institutions/london-transport-mu... for more details about the campaign.
Bringing campaigners in the North West together to challenge the arms trade on our doorstep.
More information nearer the time!
Come along to this skill share workshop to learn more about the art of public speaking and to prepare for any upcoming actions!
More information coming soon.
