DSEi - Samba action at BAE, London
Samba | 08.09.2003 11:10 | DSEi 2003 | Sheffield
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Samba | 08.09.2003 11:10 | DSEi 2003 | Sheffield
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08.09.2003 11:33
Soon and people were ejected from the building but managed to re-enter using a different door and get into a lift, before again being ejected from the building. The activists were soon joined by around 25 others with samaba band playing and the foyer of the BAE HQ was occupied with two people locking on with bicycle D locks.
5 others linked arms but were forcibly dragged out - there was one neck injury, some punched, and a bloody hand injury.
The MET police arrived and threw the loud drummers out of the foyer one by one and photographed the two locked on.
Outside the band continued to play while people waved placards reading "Bombs not Bread", "YES to WMDs", "Bomb More Babies" and "Protect My Oil Interests" in a loud, colourful, tongue in cheek demonstration.
The protest lasted for about 1 1/2 - 2 hrs with the two people inside being arrested and taken to charing cross police station. BAE will of course be exhibiting at the DSEi arms fair over the next few days.
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08.09.2003 12:06
on the way people stopped outside an army recruitment office before carrying on the the police station, where around 30 police rushed to line up in front of the doors on both sides of the building.
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Samba action at British Aerospace
08.09.2003 12:33
The action didn't require thousands of people or months to organise, and for me was a really positive experience, although unfortunately two arrests were made which is at the time of writing still being sorted out...
Just to say that if there's anyone reading who's thinking twice about getting involved in the week of action or in creating their own actions at DSEI, COME ALONG!
Remember: 'Be reasonable, demand the impossible' (Grafitti, Paris, 1968)
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