A-Infos (en) UK, London, Destroy dsei call to action - dtroy dsei rather than dirarm dsei

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Shut down europe ’s largest weapons fair! - day of direct action blockades!
10 september 2003 excel centre, London docklands, uk
AGAINST THE ARMS TRADE! AGAINST THE WTO! AGAINST THE GLOBAL CAPITALIST SYSTEM!
One of the world’s biggest ever trade fairs for guns, bombs, military planes,
small arms, mines and tanks is taking place in London from 9- 12 September
2003. DSEi takes place at the same time as the WTO meets in Mexico to continue
its relentless campaign to turn everything we need to survive into profit for
the already rich and into death for those who can’t pay. Thousands of
protesters are invited to the UK to stop this market of death and to make DSEi
the focus of European anti- WTO protest.

WHAT IS DSEi?
Defence Systems Equipment International - Destroying Societies, Environments
and Individuals - is an arms fair, sponsored by the British government. It will
host arms buyers from all over the world - including countries on Amnesty
International’s list of human rights abusers and others who should be!

Also shopping at this huge arms fair will be delegates representing some of the
poorest countries in Africa and Asia. Right now a hundred and one regimes happy
to crush dissent and slaughter the inhabitants of their own and other countries
are hiding behind the threadbare mask of the “War on Terrorism”. Whether it’s
the US and Britain almost anywhere, Russia in Chechnya, the Stans around the
Caspian oil wells, Israel on the West Bank, Turkey in Kurdistan, China in
Tibet, innocent people are being murdered in the interests of capital.

The last DSEi exhibition took place on 11 th September, the day of the attacks
on New York and Washington. Whilst many businesses around the world closed, the
arms fair was not halted. For three more days, countries including, America,
Israel and 14 different Arab nations continued to shop side- by- side for
weapons to kill each other with.

The arms trade, of which DSEi 2003 is an important part, is an international
political business made up of multinational companies which make products that
kill and maim for profit. These companies play a leading role in the unjust
global economic system which causes poverty and human rights abuses around the
world.

Civilians made up 90 percent of all war casualties during the 1900s. Wars
continue today only thanks to the arms trade. Due to globalisation, the arms
companies operate above the law, outside of trade agreements and in favour only
of the rich and powerful.

The arms business in the UK also harms local communities. The London borough of
Newham, where DSEi is taking place, is one of the poorest in the country.
Holding Europe’s largest weapons fair at an exhibition centre that overlooks
the already impoverished working class estates of Canning Town is no surprise.
In fact it it is exactly the kind of boot in the face ordinary people have come
to expect from Britain’s government - creating a massive boom in the
international weapons industry alongside the global demolition of already
pathetic public services.

THIS CALL INVITES YOU TO TAKE PART IN THE DAY OF DIRECT ACTION AND TO FOCUS
ACTIONS TO HIT THE DEATH MERCHANTS AT THE FAIR, AT THEIR MULTINATIONAL OFFICES
AND AT MILITARY BASES THROUGHOUT THE WORLD BETWEEN NOW AND THE END OF THE FAIR.

THE AIM - TO SHUT DOWN DSEi AND DAMAGE THE INDUSTRY BY WHATEVER MEANS
NECESSARY. THERE WILL BE NO GUIDELINES OR RULES.

To get Involved Contact:
DESTROY DSEi PO Box 8, 84b Whitechapel High Street, London E1 7QX
07887 620379
dsei_ da@ london. com
Subscribe to the discussion list by sending a blank email to: dsei_ da-
subscribe@ yahoogroups. com

destroy dsei!

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Note:
from what i can gather destroy dsei as below is an anarchists grouping
http://www.destroydsei.org/info.htm
while dismarm dsei is the broader coalition including some anarchists
http://www.dsei.org
D.W.


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