Date Set for Newham Public Meeting Against the ExCel Arms Fair

Newham Opposition to War and Racism is organising a public meeting on Monday 5 September against the world's largest arms fair that will be held in Newham in September.

Who Supplies the Weapons ?
for bombing Iraq and Afghanistan • fuelling civil wars that force people into exile • repression • torture • maiming civilians

Where? St Francis of Assisi RC Church, Grove Cresent Rd (off The Grove, turning by Jewsons), Stratford E15 (see map below)

When? Monday 5 September from 7pm-9pm

Invited Speakers? From Campaign Against the Arms Trade, East London Against the Arms Fair, Disarm DSEi, refugee community groups and Newham Monitoring Project

Leaflet: Download here

The horrifying attacks on London in July have led to an growing backlash against Muslims living in Britain, with enormous pressure to accept ‘collective responsibility’ for the actions of a few extremists. But the Blair government, which refuses to acknowledge any link between the attacks on Londoners and the terrifying slaughter of its war in Iraq, is willing to encourage and support the armourers of state terror to operate freely in our borough.

DSEi (Defence Systems and Equipment International) is the world’s biggest weapons fair, selling everything from battleships and attack helicopters to cluster bombs and machine guns. This year it runs from 13-16 September at the ExCeL Centre in Custom House. Representatives from countries including Israel, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, the US, Colombia, China and Russia will be buying and selling weapons, products and services used for repression and terror, in a borough where refugees from all over the world live in exile from armed conflicts that kill around 35 people every hour. Arms sales increase the likelihood of fighting and prolong conflicts once they begin and sales of small arms, the weapons that produce actual mass destruction, kill more than 500,000 people every year.