An article/press release was posted to the newswire this morning but was mysteriously taken down/elimintaed/lost by this afternoon (it did contain the cut and pasted programme for the event plus a call out for people to crash the cocktail party - 5pm tonight, long-passed). So here it is again:

Article by: WEF=DEATH
Thursday 31 Jan 2002

Summary:A group of Anti-Capitalists attempted to force their way into
the Air Power 2002 conference at the Royal Lancaster Hotel, W1. Seven
demonstrators sounded alarms, set off stink bombs, held banners and
distributed leaflets.

Reference at indymedia website:
 http://uk.indymedia.org:8081//front.php3?article_id=21441

Article:
The conference, organised by Arms giant Lockheed Martin, is a corporate
and military event, dedicated to formulating the latest war strategies
and peddling weapons of mass destruction. Participants include: Air
Marshal Robertson, Senior Military Adviser, BAE Systems UK; General Joseph
Ralston, USAF, NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe, SHAPE; Lieutenant
General Walter Jertz, German Air Force, Director Reaction Forces; Major
General David Deptula, Director, Air Force Quadrennial Defence Review,
HQ USAF, Pentagon.

The occupation co-incides with enormous anti-capitalist mobilisations
against the meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in New York and
the 37th Annual Munich Security Conference in Germany. At a time when
many are claiming that September 11 has pacified or destroyed the
anti-capitalist movement, today’s occupation, alongside the Argentinian
uprisings, and the thousands demonstrating in the USA and Germany, shows that
the agenda of war, forced famine, criminalisation of refugees and the
expansion of the capitalist economy, will continue to be resisted.

This week’s meetings of the elite, in London, New York and Munich, are
being held under the guise of increasing ‘our security’ in the wake of
recent world events. Whose security? ‘Security’ in this context means
security for those in power to continue to accumulate, terrorise and
subjugate. What ‘security’ will the conferences offer a Bolivian small
farmer who cannot afford bread or fuel; a sweatshop worker in the
Philippines; an Afghani family whose home is a crater thanks to US and British
bombs; the unemployed youth in the suburbs of Paris; an asylum seeker
at Campsfield or Woomera detention centres; the striking thousands in
Britain, and those forced to choose between low-wages or constant
harassment on the dole? What is really being offered by their so-called
‘security’ conferences?

Solidarity with all those fighting for a world without bombs, bosses or
borders!
From Manchester to Munich, Birmingham to Buenos Aires, Kabul to Kiev,
New York to New Delhi we echo the cry, “Away with all states, governments and leaders, Away! Away all of them!”