Confronting DSEI needs a long strategy
Emily Apple writes on resistance to the bi-annual arms dealing circus and where the movement against it can go next.
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DSEI ends today, but arms companies win
A look at some of the morbid guests of the arms fair on its last day.
Police will be monitored at protests against DSEI arms fair
Campaigners have suffered from excessive and violent policing at previous DSEIs
A street view of DSEI 2019
Tanya Jiang writes on the what happened at the front line of this year’s clash between weapon-mongers trying to flog their murderous devices to State killers, and the hundreds of people who put their bodies on the line to stop it from happening. Friday was the last day of the Defence and Security Equipment International
Dsei protesters found not guilty!
In the latest round of court cases related to last year’s anti-arms fair protests a not guilty verdict has been handed to four activists today, including well-known campaigner Chris Cole. Handing down the verdict in Stratford Magistrates court, the judge found the group not guilty of obstructing the highway as police had not properly weighed
First verdicts in for DSEI arms fair protest arrests
Eight out of nine defendants were found guilty of highway obstruction today in the first trial of people who took part in the mass disruption of British arms jamboree DSEI last September. The eight were told to pay costs of £180 each alongside various smaller surcharges. Over 100 people were detained at the protests last
DSEI arrest count likely to top 100
With 56 people detained in the first few days of the DSEI arms fair protests in London and more than 30 arrested just on the 9th, it seems likely the total count for Dsei arrests will top 100 this year, though it’s worth noting that many of these will be “planned” arrests involving lock-ons and
DSEI arms fair struggles as peace protesters disruption enters fourth day
Massive posters, Tube adverts and infiltration kicked off day four of the campaign against the DSEI weapons trade fair in London today following three days of direct actions and lock-ons which have held up goods from being transported and disrupted the business of flogging guns to killers. The wide array of subvertising and undercover shots
Posters go up as DSEi arms fair nears
As the September 4th start date of DSEI, the world’s biggest arms fair, edges closer, early actions to draw attention to protests against the annual gathering of the merchants of death have begun to filter in. Posters have been put up around London by activists using the increasingly popular method of hijacked bus hoardings this
Judges leave DSEI defendants hanging over 2015 arms fair protest
After more than a year of putting eight anti-arms activists through stop-start legal shenanigans over whether they broke the law at a DSEI arms fair protest, judges at the High Court have reserved their decision, meaning another agonising wait. The eight, who participated in a sit-down protest at the arms fair in September 2015, had initially been acquitted in
