Arms Trade Protest - A New Way Forward
Tony Goring | 30.07.2004 16:22
It has been clear for some time that the groundswell of popular support that grew during the Stop The War protests has not been expoited as well as it could have been. In particular protest against the Arms industry has been nothing short of a debacle. The recent cock-up by the DSEi organising group at Farnborough Arm Fair being a case in point.
The DSEi Group has tried their best but presumably lacks experience and as such we have seen a year of failure since the event at Excel. A number of us who care pasionalty about stopping the Arms trade with effective action ( beer sales ?) are forminig a new organisation to do that. Thos of you simply interested in handing out leaflets or visiting empty offices (!!) need not apply, we are into action, direct action.
The Website below has details of a forthcoming meeting and we will be preparing for a fullscale stopping of the next DSEi. No leaflets, no empty gestures, no placards or rainbow flags. We are going to stop these bastards.
www.StopTheArmsTrade.org.uk
The DSEi Group has tried their best but presumably lacks experience and as such we have seen a year of failure since the event at Excel. A number of us who care pasionalty about stopping the Arms trade with effective action ( beer sales ?) are forminig a new organisation to do that. Thos of you simply interested in handing out leaflets or visiting empty offices (!!) need not apply, we are into action, direct action.
The Website below has details of a forthcoming meeting and we will be preparing for a fullscale stopping of the next DSEi. No leaflets, no empty gestures, no placards or rainbow flags. We are going to stop these bastards.
www.StopTheArmsTrade.org.uk
Tony Goring
Homepage:
http://www.StopTheArmsTrade.org.uk
Comments
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About time !
30.07.2004 17:19
Mick
your website not working
30.07.2004 18:36
Kate Jackson
what we need is more action
31.07.2004 08:44
If we're serious about fucking up next year's DSEi (and other areas of the arms trade) then we need to start now and we need to learn from the animal rights movement and really hit them where it hurts. If we can get to the point where everyone from the organisers of DSEi to their cleaners or insurers don't know whether they can get through a day without a visit to their offices or their homes then we can begin to pull them apart piece by piece. Just concentrating on getting people onto the streets will not do this.
We need to work in small groups and just do this - no more talking and faffing around in public meetings. Take action now!!!!
activist
NV direct action
31.07.2004 10:50
Matt
Web Attack
31.07.2004 10:52
Details to follow. The site will be back up by Monday.
Tony Goring
campaigning
31.07.2004 11:33
Decide your strategy and then find the right tactics, which experience has indicated is best made up of a wide range from the fluffy to the spiky. A big problem is campaigns getting bogged down in set pieces that cater more for a certain section of activists, and loosing sight of the end goal.
That's my two pence.
But best of luck in your campaign
FtP
Can I get sause with that?
31.07.2004 15:41
Arms tec is licenced through isreali and american instalations each feeding each other while british small arms race and tourture equipment reaches the places where other products fail to reach, if you become their enimey they will have to devise another weopon to repel your advances no matter how gentle. You will fall between the gaps in the Terrorist safty net campaign,
Sure you have to do something, but then so do they, anglo populations the world over are in decline and their not so white neighbors are threatening boarders suplies and resorces, what if black soldiers refused to fight? refused the orders of whites? what then? we will have no army, america would have no armed forces thats why deployment of one nuke or du devestation wins a fight, can't take em on fairly cos we havent got the numbers or a spare generation of men to fight,cant make the sacrifice. We've got just women and Black men in the army now.
There I think thats got it, black men have pride, its the only thing we never took away from them...if you can offer them a better alternative to becoming an army slave then the Army will starve befor they develop the ray gun..
Corse if your successful... the UK will have to pull out of Iraq...OPEC will regain control sell oil to China and we will be well fucked economically while I eat humble pie.
Oh now you see what you made me do...I gave away a plan.
Simon willace
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31.07.2004 16:00
Lets learn from each other...
1 public meeting with everybody just gives the cops a way of photographing/videoing everybody
lots of autonomous groups all over with no hierarchy just gives them lots of headaches.
(A)
arms
31.07.2004 23:17
armless + independent
Good Luck
31.07.2004 23:31
Desai are doing things. Everyone else can do things too. Don't start by having a go at others though.
Joan x
Joan P
Right on Tony
01.08.2004 07:56
more divisive comments. It's almost as if Tony Goring was being paid to slag off other protestors.
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Web site attack
02.08.2004 11:04
Tony Goring
hmmm this is all very dodgy again!
04.08.2004 09:11
anyway - this now sounds like utter rubbish - within 2 hrs the website was subject to a DoS attack - hmmmmm yeah right
given that the domain name: stopthearmstrade.org.uk has no whois record - ie it has not even been registered!!
the results are:
No match for "stopthearmstrade.org.uk".
WHOIS database last updated at 10:05:01 04-Aug-2004
Now you're not suggesting someone hacked the nominet servers are you?
you can search for it yourself at nominet:
info