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Wildcat Demos at EDO MBM Back with a Vengeance

Smashnik | 29.09.2005 12:06 | Anti-militarism | South Coast

EDO MBM - Brighton's very own arms dealers - have been forced to confront the realities of their immoral trade for over a year now as protesters have demonstrated their disapproval outside the factory gates in many and varied ways

In the lasst few weeks demonstrations at EDO MBM have been intensifying with small autonomous groups of people going up to the factory to sshow their disapproval

Two weeks ago many smashniks joined protest against the DSEI arms fair in Docklands wher EDO Corporation was an exhibitor

On UN Peace Day a group of protesters picketed Hove Town Hall in protest at the council's refusal to pass a motion condemning EDO MBM

On the same day another group of protesters showed their anger protesting outside EDO MBM's premises on Home Farm Road

This was followed by further wildcat demos on the 22nd and 28th Sept

the message is this - EDO MBM cannot handle people organising as individuals and acting independently - form an affinity group and get up there whenever you can

Smashnik
- e-mail: smashedo@hotmail.com, 07891405923

Comments

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EDO Directors

30.09.2005 08:00

What would be really useful here would be if anyone could publish names and addresses of EDO directors plus any major share holders. I'm sure it is possible to find this out but if anyone has already done the research then please share it.
I'm sure many would appreciated being able to try explaining the error of EDO's ways to the organ grinders themselves.
Keep up the good work guys

fred


hey fred

30.09.2005 12:57

In case you had not noticed from reading IMC UK, the directors of EDO are now 'protected persons' under the interim injunction. Even though these names and adresses are in the public domain, going anywhere near their homes to protest means likely instant arrest and possible five year prison sentence as breach of the court order. This applies to anyone and not just those named on the injunction.

Its also worth noting that someone in Brighton was arrested detained and had his flat searched by Special Branch last year for allegedly downloading such director information from companies house.

It is also worth noting that EDO have used comments posted on Indymedia UK to gather most of their evidence for alleged harassment.

This is not meant to intimidate you or stop you protesting but to inform you of the risks involved.

bob

bob the builder


What would be really useful here....

30.09.2005 22:07

...would be if someone could publish the address of anywhere that FRED could get a BRAIN CELL!

Do you really mean "to explain the error of their ways to the organ grinders themselves" or do you actually mean to intimidate and abuse? Where do you think that will get us? Prats like you need to keep well away or you'll marginalise us and all the good work that has been done so far will go to waste.

If yoy just want to behave like an arse, go find some animal rights protestors!

Peaceman


EDO Trolls

01.10.2005 00:22

To all Non-Indymedia Trolls

People like Fred are simply EDO Trolls who are trying to get nieve people to breach the injunction by placing the names and the address of those whom work for EDO. This is not the first time this has been tried by EDO Trolls

Take serious notice what Bob has said and DO NOT PLACE THE NAMES AND ADDRESSES of those who work for EDO. In fact, don't even bother justifing the comments made by trolls by not replying to them!!

SMASH EDO, keep the hard work up, and hope to see u all some time soon!

Victory to Smash EDO!

Anti-Troll


keep it up guys and girls

14.10.2005 23:12

keep it up peeps and spread the word SMASH EDO

anon


Protected Murderers

26.10.2005 15:14

The injuction only applies to the following: named defendants, people acting as the 'servants' or 'agents' of the named defendants, people acting 'in concert' with the named defendants, and non-defendants who have been served with the injuction papers at the protests at the factory site. If you are not in any of the above catagories, you can't possibly knowingly breach the injunction and you could independantly research and publish names and addresses of the directors without breaking the law. Try companies house, be careful but don't let yourself be intimidated by scaremongering attention-seekers. The authorities can't shut us all up!

I don't condemn home demos of the type used by the animal rights movement outright, but I do have serious reservations about how justified and effective they really are. If a group of protesters is percieved to be harrassing and intimidating someone at home, the neighbours will quite often rally round the target, which is obviously counter-productive if the intent of the home demos are to isolate and shame the target in their own neigbourhood. There is also the question of the target's family. If my dad was an arms dealer, I wouldn't want my homelife made hell because of him.

Leafleting and putting up posters naming and shaming these individuals in their neighbourhoods seems to be a more justified and effective tactic. One EDO MBM director had his neigbourhood postered last year, and some of his neigbours stopped speaking to him after they found out what he does for a living. In his own words he said he was "made to feel like a criminal".

 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/london/2005/01/304521.html

I agree that outright intimidation is not justified against arms dealers, vivisectionist and other such scum, but these people should be named and shamed.

Feral Feline


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