DSEi, the world's largest arms fair, 8th - 11th September, East London.
Over a million people have died in the US/UK invasion of Iraq. 1400 Palestinian civilians were killed during the Israeli attacks on Gaza in January 2009. The exhibitors at DSEi are making huge profits from these conflicts - for example the devastation in Gaza was aided by UK arms sales of over £27 million in 2008.
Ewa Jasiewicz, a human rights worker in Gaza during the bombardment advocated taking our fight against this "from the streets into the offices, factories and headquarters, to the heart of the companies making a killing."
However, the arms trade and the military-industrial complex is supports should not be seen as a single issue campaign.
Many asylum seekers have fled from the effects of war and the arms trade. In locking these people up, and calling them scroungers, the government conveninently ignores the huge profits made by UK companies who made the weapons which destroyed their homelands.
The military are climate criminals responsible for 25% of air pollution. Scientists for Global Responsibility said in 2006 that the UK armed forces were responsible for emitting 5m tonnes of carbon dioxide. A 2002 report from the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution found that "the performance requirements of military aircraft suggest that compared to civil aircraft, they are likely to produce proportionately more emissions."
Animal testing plays a major role in military research. In 2006 more than 21,000 animals - including monkeys, ferrets and pigs - were subjected to experimentation at Porton Down. This was a 76% increase from 2000. Tests include applying fatal doses of nerve agent to an animal's skin, and giving primates sarin and anthrax.
The bankers, the investors, are the glue which bind all these issues together. High street banks invest billions in the arms trade and support the corporations profiting from environmental destruction, attacks on migrants, and animal torture. Given these banks invest in death, destruction and displacement, their reluctance to help those facing redundancy and repossession is unsurprising.
Banks are only interested in profit. Investing heavily in the arms trade, they care little about the victims of war or UK workers. Their investment in 'high risk' arms sales to Africa, Asia and the Middle East is another gamble with our own economy, all to line their own pockets.
DISARM DSEi call for people to join together to unstick these institutions, expose the devastation they cause, and hold them to account for their actions. For further action join DISARM DSEi on 8th September, 12 noon, City of London.
Ewa Jasiewicz, a human rights worker in Gaza during the bombardment advocated taking our fight against this "from the streets into the offices, factories and headquarters, to the heart of the companies making a killing."
However, the arms trade and the military-industrial complex is supports should not be seen as a single issue campaign.
Many asylum seekers have fled from the effects of war and the arms trade. In locking these people up, and calling them scroungers, the government conveninently ignores the huge profits made by UK companies who made the weapons which destroyed their homelands.
The military are climate criminals responsible for 25% of air pollution. Scientists for Global Responsibility said in 2006 that the UK armed forces were responsible for emitting 5m tonnes of carbon dioxide. A 2002 report from the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution found that "the performance requirements of military aircraft suggest that compared to civil aircraft, they are likely to produce proportionately more emissions."
Animal testing plays a major role in military research. In 2006 more than 21,000 animals - including monkeys, ferrets and pigs - were subjected to experimentation at Porton Down. This was a 76% increase from 2000. Tests include applying fatal doses of nerve agent to an animal's skin, and giving primates sarin and anthrax.
The bankers, the investors, are the glue which bind all these issues together. High street banks invest billions in the arms trade and support the corporations profiting from environmental destruction, attacks on migrants, and animal torture. Given these banks invest in death, destruction and displacement, their reluctance to help those facing redundancy and repossession is unsurprising.
Banks are only interested in profit. Investing heavily in the arms trade, they care little about the victims of war or UK workers. Their investment in 'high risk' arms sales to Africa, Asia and the Middle East is another gamble with our own economy, all to line their own pockets.
DISARM DSEi call for people to join together to unstick these institutions, expose the devastation they cause, and hold them to account for their actions. For further action join DISARM DSEi on 8th September, 12 noon, City of London.