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Stop DSEI: the People Disrupting the ‘World-Leading’ Arms Fairs
Francesca Mills - 7 September 2019
One of the world’s largest arms fairs will open in the UK on Monday. For a week, state of the art weapons will be exhibited to select buyers at the DSEI Fair, held at London’s ExCel Centre.
The annual event is attended by governments from all over the world, at the official invitation of the British government’s Defence and Security Organisation.
In the week running up to the arms fair demonstrators mobilised by activist group Campaign Against the Arms Trade (CAAT) set up camp outside of the ExCel Centre and made their opposition to the arms trade known through a series of workshops, performances, speeches and direct actions – including blocking roads and climbing on top of lorries in an attempt to halt deliveries. A collective prayer led by quakers was interrupted by police, who arrested 33 people in an effort to clear the road... See more
