Emily Apple writes on resistance to the bi-annual arms dealing circus and where the movement against it can go next.
Confronting DSEI needs a long strategy
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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.
Nine campaigners arrested at London arms fair
Deliveries to DSEI were brought to a standstill on Thursday morning when peace campaigners blocked the road.
Police will be monitored at protests against DSEI arms fair
Campaigners have suffered from excessive and violent policing at previous DSEIs
Protesters to target London arms fair with two weeks of resistance
One of the world’s largest arms fairs DSEI is taking place at the ExCeL Centre in London between 12th-15th September
The “Ziegler” case: What does it mean for direct action?
As the Stop The Arms Fair week of action gets into full swing, Carl Spender and Kat Hobbs take a look the story of a 4 year legal battle over a classic activist charge: wilful obstruction of the public highway. The Ziegler case has set a legal precedent which will affect many of our movements
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
Anti arms activist found guilty in Cardiff demo case
A jury has found peace activist Deidre Murphy guilty of calling in a bomb hoax in March during protests against the Cardiff arms fair, as several other similar cases hit the trial stages. The pensioner denied making two calls to police to report a bomb in the city centre on March 28th, when anti-arms groups
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
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