DSEI DAY/ Week OF ACTION September 14th
‘SPEAK people should kneel in prayer and physically block all injustice and oppression’ SPEAK honorary president Tony Campolo
We have LOUD plans to creatively challenge the DSEi arms fair on 14th September. Find out more here to join in!
Stop The Arms Fair is a UK-based coalition of groups and individuals who joined forces in January 2011 to put an end to DSEi and all UK arms fairs http://www.stopthearmsfair.org.uk
SPEAK Network did prayer and actions against drones in September 2011, and in September 2013 members of the SPEAK affinity group did an action covered by The Guardian and acknowledged by a former archbishop. Now it’s time to unite in prayer and action once more…
General Information
DSEi is one of the biggest arms fairs in the world. For one week every two years, in East London, 1400 arms companies display their weapons to buyers from around the world, including authoritarian regimes and countries with serious human rights problems.The UK government helps to organise this arms fair, invites these repressive regimes, and helps arms companies to make deals, at taxpayer expense.This has to stop, and together we can stop it.
DSEi is planning to return in September 2015 and we want to peacefully protest to raise awareness of its existence and to work to stop it. Join us as we target the arms fair, its organisers and the exhibitors that make a profit from killing and repression.