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BAeS Arms Trade Protest

Thingy Bob | 27.06.2005 23:39 | Anti-militarism | Repression | Social Struggles | Sheffield

Development of regular protest at BAe weapons factory at Brough(Humberside). 2nd protest took place outside the main gates.

On Monday June 27th, four protestors from around Yorkshire and the Humber region gathered at the Brough BAeS weapons systems factory for the second in a series of regular peaceful protests there.
Activists from SAC(Safer communities for Activists) and elsewhere took part and silently held boards and banners, calling for Re-Tool to Peace, to the thousand or so BAe staff and support services at Shift Change/lunch time on Monday (11.30am to 2pm).
The protest was small and mainly visual not vocal, but comments were exchanged and there was dialogue with the BAe Chief of Security at the site who appeared to be keeping a record of the number of times that people had protested there. Apparently, monday was only the 5th time in 8 years that this weapons components/systems manufacturer had been visited, despite it being the crucial lynchpin site for the BAe Hawk Jet to India and Indonesia disgrace of recent times.
Perhaps next time, the Security Chief will be counting more than 4 protestors at the gates? The site is huge, just literally round the corner from the Brough train station,on Saltgrounds Road, is 6 miles from Hull and served well by an A - road (whose number I cant remember) and, just for good measure, they have an old style "Buccaneer" Jet on display at the adjoining BAe owned airstrip and training site. The SAC(and friends) protests/visits will continue, approxiamately, every month.

Thingy Bob

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Excellent!

28.06.2005 14:44

Good one! Good to see people focusing on BAE

Chris Cole
mail e-mail: chris@disarm.org.uk


More protest

01.07.2005 00:08

Good to hear of (4) people protesting at BAeS in the North East of England.
So much going on(G8 stuff/No Borders/No ID, etc) but WOULD be good, wouldn't it to get more and regular, even varied protests at Brough BAe and other sites. There is an air show/arms fair this weekend July 2nd/3rd at RAF Waddington in Lincolnshire and the likes of BAe and other arms/weapon makers, exhibit their stuff there.
Does anyone know if they have unions there at BAe Brough? If so, which ones?as there is a call to conversion and it would be useful to find out the main contacts. Do they work at weekends?

Perhaps, on the next Brough/BAe protest there,ll be 14 people, or even 40!

Hopeful.

Bob Thingy


Dyslexia?

03.07.2005 09:45

Is the SAC (Safer Communities for Activists) also a pseudonym for the YDA (Association of Yorkshire Dyslexics)?

Reader rabbit


So that's the way it works ?

03.07.2005 22:18

So - you make a posting with an anti-activism flavour - it appears and then disappears again like magic. What happened to freedom of speech? Ohhh I remember, you guys aren't fans of democracy and free speech are you. The democratically elected government is critisised at every turn for any 'perceived' mistruth or misleading statement, but the Indymedia webmaster rules supreme to keep the pages true to the glorious aims of the Kollectives. Didn't anyone tell you that Kommunism is dead.

Visit Cat Tina


BAes Arms Trade Protest

07.07.2005 21:37

So, Now that, aspiring idiots, Reader Rabbit and visit Cat Tina have added their rather dull and fairly dim critical observations on the merits of Anarchy, can either of them or anyone else, let this post know if there are any unions at Brough and at other BAe sites, in order to make a dialogue and begin progressive talks and actions on converting FROM Arms production to some product(s) more socially useful, beneficial and friendly to the world?

Thankyou. In Anarchy,

Thingy Bob

Bob Thingy


Workers of the world unite !.....yeah right, sure!

10.07.2005 22:16

Dear Sponge Bob - course there is unions at BAE sites, but don kid yerself dat they is interested in your purile make love not war proposal. You see, simple Bob, there is this thing called supply and demand, and these investors in BAE, they is pretty interested in this innit! An they is gonna pull out loadsamoney if BAE start to play your tune.

Get yer head outta yer kindergarten books and grow up bobby boy.

Think da union is interested ? No! The only thing unions are interested in is self -serving for their own members. An after they've all done very well thanks in the arms trade for many many years, you won't get a look-in Simple-Bob.

The name ? Work it out.

SR Made Real


Arms trade protests

11.07.2005 00:57

Yeah right sure made real, says grow up and get real.
Well, THANKYOU, at last, for this posting. Is there any more information on unions and any more people interested or active for protesting at/or writing to BAe systems sites, so that we can hurry these self-centred investors and shareholders into withdrawing their blood money from the arms trade?

With respect, thank you, made real for your insults and comments.

Kindergarten will tell you that puerile is spelled puerile NOT purile and
love not war is alright by me and thousands of millions more so, capitalist defender?, fill your boots, while yer still have a pair to fill.

With love, in peace and solidarity,
Thingybob arms trade protestor.

Thingybob


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