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Smash EDO Demo - 'Remember Gaza' - photos

Brighton hosted over 500 protesters calling for the closure of the EDO/ITT weapons factory, which manufactures bomb parts used against the people of Gaza last year.

Police attempt to protect the weapons factory

Mounted cops struggle to follow the protest in skirmishes outside the factory

In Brighton, protesters resist all attempts to control the demonstration

Police used force to try and dispel the protest and demonstrators were kettled and subject to baton charges. Clashes outside the factory led to several minor injuries, and at least five arrests were made, including one medic.

More photos here:

http://photographywithoutborders.org/2010/01/smash-edo-protest-demo-brighton-remember-gaza-photos-police/

Josh Jones
e-mail: joshua.c.j@gmail.com
Homepage: http://photographywithoutborders.org/

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smash edo is fucking brilliant

18.01.2010 21:08

smash edo is fucking brilliant.
everyday, or at least every other day, i think about the ravaging and killing and suffering in palestine at the hands of the imperialist pleasers and oil baron protectors - israel - and then i see smash edo and i feel so proud of my brothers and sisters who fight against edo/itt and the pigs, who protect them, and barclays, and macmurders, and i just hope, i really hope, that 2010 brings more people to the struggle.

thanks to all who got involved, and solidarity to the palestinians who, regardless of why they are imprisoned, and irrespective of the 'faction' that controls their area, still remain the single biggest example of ethnic control on the face of the planet, except, possibly, papua new guinea's repression of bougainvillians, POSSIBLY.

persist to resist.
smash edo.

fran

bit pacifist

18.01.2010 21:50

Pity this could not have been channeled into a truely militant anti-capitalist revolutionary movement. Whilst Smash EDO is a a noble cause against the arms trade and must be supported....it doesnt go far enough..... As it is ,it is largely a pacifist anarchistic movement. Where were the barricades? Solidarity where it is due, mind.....good on everyone who turned up, well done.....just needs to grow and become hardened.

militant atheist

beh

19.01.2010 00:10

barricades? have you been to brighton lately?
nevertheless our darts of insurrection flow along unexpected lines of deterritorialized humour-

http://www.theargus.co.uk/resources/images/1166122/
.. that, my friend, is the dart that took out of action the local rag's photographer

malliput

Was he a cop? Pity

19.01.2010 08:55

Quote: 'One of the crowd lobbed a dart into the air, which hit photographer Sam Stephenson. Fortunately, he was unhurt. '

https://publish.indymedia.org.uk/en/2010/01/444895.html?c=on#c241073

Try target practice!

Militant Atheist

Cameras?

19.01.2010 10:58

I thought the organisers asked for ppl NOT to bring cameras or camcorders to this protest? Yet tyet again plenty of faces on many sites....

Noidentity

Cameras

19.01.2010 12:08

Can't see why this event should not be photographed..... if people dont want their faces on camera....mask up and hood up.... but i think its inspiration to see people out like this. Most of the faces seen are from riot cops.....

MilitantAtheist

darts- no mate

19.01.2010 12:47

militant atheist: ' try target practice'... are you serious?

i hope not. you seem to be one of those indymedia stirrers.

looking at the images of the argus photographers- they are a great document of the protest... well worth looking at for someone like me who couldnt get down to brighton for the day.

lets build our own media, reclaim the corporate media... but suggestions of dart throwing at local news photographers who have taken a neutral document of a protest doesnt seem to make any steps towards revolutionary social change.

at the end of the day the photographer is a worker, who is paid by a corporation, just like those that i'm sure many would go and take action in solidarity with.

such black and white politics only help to make your resistance polemic and ghettoize any real action you take for the world you want to see.

180

not stirring or suggesting attack journalists

19.01.2010 16:55

180 - i was not suggesting attack journalists, on the contrary...... its a pity this one got hurt, i am personally against it.... and try target practice means.......choose your target carefully.....preferably having trained beforehand...... aim at the class enemy...... in this case EDO and the riot cops who defend it. As for cameras being used..... go ahead....if your worried about being identified, mask up and if you want to go on an action overstepping the law, leave your mobile at home, as its a useful tracking device for cops......In the case of this demo.....a perfectly lawfull right to protest, its up to each individual. If one uses grappling hooks or molotovs......well.....if its directed at the legitimate target.....i.e,capitalist reps, the cops, etc, etc........ i fully support it........FUCK THE POWER OF CAPITAL!........ FOR SOCIALIST REVOLUTION!

Militant Atheist

@ Militant Atheist

19.01.2010 22:07

The barricades were quickly built inside the compound, however police were quicker than portesters having free access to the compound and they managed to storm them before they were fully erected, by strength of numbers and attack by dogs we were forced to fall back but this fight isn't over until EDO is closed down, all help building barricades will be greatly appreciated.

A fellow militant.

Skank

about hacks on the frontline

20.01.2010 10:31

actually, why are some of us being apologetic about a journo-photographer getting a dart in the nogging? who cares? he/she knows the risks when taking photos of anarchists. if he was pointing his lense at me id have grabbed his fucking camera and fucking lobbed it, if id have wanted to, and what would it really mean? nothing. that he/she was in the fucking way, thats all. get out the fucking way next time, eh? twat.

we take the demo rough with the demo smooth, if i complained every time a copper whacked me or shoved me or pushed me or punched me, id be a whiney one wouldn't i?

i wish id have lobbed the fucking dart, id have flung a few at the pigs too, for good measure. its ok for them to murder ian tomlinson but we cant fight back, even when the fight is for freedom and to prevent loss of life? come on, who's trolling this anti-smash edo shit...pigs? EDO employees? argus arse lickers?

its a fucking war, a social struggle, for liberty and freedom, for all....its not a fucking picnic, especially when people, ie. E smith, are on remand for using their bodies to try and shut that place down. this isn't climate camp (which is good at what it does, nonetheless), this is SMASH EDO,,,,,,the clues in the name....

GET A FUCKING GRIP, we will smash edo eventually, we will. all those that love edo or who hate those that oppose them, you have failed to convince anybody that smash edo is wrong, so why not just piss off.
WE WILL NOT SURRENDER! SMASH EDO! SMASH THE ARMS TRADERS AND THEIR CAPITAL INVESTORS! SMASH IT ALL!

fran

@ Fran

20.01.2010 12:13

I'm sure in your eyes this will make you a troll, but I think you confuse anarchist with thug.
I am an anarchist, I was at the Smash EDO Demo, and yeah, fine, if cops get in the way when we're trying to get at a legitimate target (EDO) then if they get hurt then that's just how it is. But how the hell does throwing a dart at a photographer help? At all? I was masked up[, as were most people, so I don't nimd having my photo taken personally. I did object to the photographers being there, but ask them to stop, and explain why. Having been at the demo, I am close to 100% sure that did not happen. I support miliancy, but not just for kicks, and it should not be the first tactic we resort to.
As you rightly say, it isn't a picnic, it isn't a game, we're doing this for real. So we should not get do turned on by 'riot porn', and instead treat everything on its own merits. Violence is never a good thing. Cops are people too. That doesn't mean we should be law-abiding pacifisits, far from it. But we should use violence and militancy as a tactic if and only if it will yield results.

@narchist

lets move forward to Mayday 2010

20.01.2010 13:06

Lets make this mayday coming the place to be, and get every group to come to Brighton

fred flintstone

Lets Make Mayday 2010 The main event for the UK

20.01.2010 13:36

We need to make Mayday, the main demo for the UK. Lets get everyone down to this one

Fred Flintstone

fair enough

20.01.2010 20:12

may be it was a bit thuggish of me, but rest assured i am an anarchist because i say and do anarchism, not because of you or anyone else or what you say or think about me. of course anarchism is not violence personified, or vice versa, far from it and im not violent all the time and dont think it needs to be done all the time.
but im starting to get really fucked off with all these people waving cameras around at demo's when seroious work is trying to be done. there must have been two thousand people in copenhagen, for example, taking photos of a thousand demo'ers. where is the use in every fucker taking photos, particularly if we're all masked up anyway? what is there to see? the police abusing us again? leave the cameras at home, or face the consequences, its simple journo 'rules' all journos know they run the risk thats why the more knowledgable ones wear helmets and protection.
its not for you to dictate what violence is acceptable and what violence is not!!!
if you admit it is a struggle, and you admit violence is part of it, what the fuck are you actually on about?

im allowed my opinion friend..............my OPINION.

fran

UK Indymedia

Smash EDO Demo - 'Remember Gaza' - photos

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smash edo is fucking brilliant

bit pacifist

beh

Was he a cop? Pity

Cameras?

Cameras

darts- no mate

not stirring or suggesting attack journalists

@ Militant Atheist

about hacks on the frontline

@ Fran

lets move forward to Mayday 2010

Lets Make Mayday 2010 The main event for the UK

fair enough

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