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Erudite #Budget2017 analysis from Ann Narkeh:
Tax cuts for the rich, f*ck all for the poor.
Austerity is a choice. #SackTheTories
Post Satire isn’t funny…
Who needs gun control when you’ve got thoughts and prayers?
Murica’s addiction to guns isn’t funny, it’s Post Satire.
More Post Satire here.
A COP has started a poetic petition to the Home Secretary, Amber Rudd to stop single crewing (screwing) them. It has been written in bars of emotional rhyming verse.
I recommend reading the whole thing but here’s an excerpt:
“Last week I was hit, spat at and punched.
There wasn’t one day that I ate my lunch.
I held a man’s hand who’d just lost his wife,
I took a child from his Father who was wielding a knife.
I pulled a girl off a bridge who was mentally ill,
I locked up a worker who had nicked from the till.I persuaded a battered woman to finally speak,
After seeing her every day, week after week. ”
At time of writing, the petition has received over 100, 000 signatures.
As an artivist and anarchist, it gave me some serious pause for thought before signing it. Locking up anybody, let alone workers who are so skint they have to steal is extremely problematic for me, as is any monopoly on the use of violence, but still,
Despite my currently taking legal action against the police.
I’ve made the same point about ACAB before. Now, in light of the recent police violence in Catalonia, I think we would all do well to heed Julian Assange’s warning that this change of relationship between state and population threatens to ripple throughout Western Europe and America.
These ‘ripple effects’ have been ebbing and flowing for centuries…where are we now?
In the UK, where public police numbers have already been cut dramatically, private security firms G4S and Serco are soon to be given the power of arrest in a £290 million deal with the Tories.
We must prevent these ripples of neo-fascism becoming a wave as they have in the past. We need to focus on resisting the apparent rise of extreme fascism in the new millennium through all non violent means.
That’s going to mean more than just repeatedly getting our fucking heads kicked in for practising non-violent civil disobedience.
Grinding down the public police while creating and now empowering private police as the war drums grow ever louder are extremely disturbing trends which echo the rise of fascism in the past.
I will almost certainly lose a few subscribers for reiterating my position on the ACAB trope. This is a contentious point for an anarchist to make but I don’t give a fuck, I think it’s a necessary discussion, particularly as we are rapidly sliding into ecocide and neo-fascist dystopia.
In my anarchist utopia, we would still have cops but their only role would be to protect people from violence. As things are now though, I would far rather a publicly accountable police force than the clunking fist of G4S, an unaccountable, profit driven transnational corporation who have an appalling track record of oppression and human rights abuses.
Cheers.
UK Gov.Plc sell weapons and equipment, including torture equipment to 22/30 countries on their own list of human rights abusers. At least 109 brave activists were arrested last week trying to shut this shameful shit show down. DSEI 2017 is an international terrorist convention profiting from death & misery.
Catch up with Occupy News Network‘s coverage of last week’s #StopDSEI blockade, here:
Here are some more reasons to #StopDSEI
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Stop DSEI because the men, women and children who survived the weapons sold at DSEI are starving to death in Yemen, in Gaza and all over the world, so a tiny number of rich people can get richer.
Stop DSEI because the global arms trade maintains an unstable, unsafe and unfair world for profit.
Stop DSEI because those able to seek refuge from the conflicts fuelled by DSEI’s weapons are persecuted and exploited if they’re lucky, or they’re abandoned to rot in detention centres, to drown in the sea and worse.
Stop DSEI because the revolving door between UK Gov. Plc and the arms industry reveals the absolute depth of hypocrisy to which our democracy has sunk.
Stop DSEI because Government ministers brazenly giving keynote speeches at DSEI this year include International Trade Secretary Liam Fox, Defence Secretary Michael Fallon and Security Minister Ben Wallace.
These men will almost certainly pass back through the revolving door to lucrative careers in the euphemistically described ‘defence’ industry.
Stop DSEI because their wars are fuelling the ecological crisis, through the war machines’ insatiable addiction to toxic energy sources and the politicians’ fear of the petrodollar’s inevitable demise.
Stop DSEI because the weapons manufacturers and deep states should be focusing their combined energies on mitigating the unfolding climate collapse, rather than facilitating unnecessary conflicts in an increasingly unstable world.
Stop DSEI because it is simply wrong to make vast profits from the unnecessary and indiscriminate murder, torture, censorship, surveillance and suffering of others.
Stop DSEI because even though London Mayor, Sadiq Khan; incumbent PM and peace activist, Jeremy Corbyn; the only green voice in Parliament, Caroline Lucas and many other decent MPs deplore the arms trade, WE are the ones with the power to actually stop it from taking place.
Stop DSEI because there’s another madman in the whitehouse, talking about thermonuclear armageddon while the world burns and floods.
Stop DSEI because we may not get another chance.
Stop DSEI because another world is possible.
Solidarity with everybody taking action to shut down this grotesque carnival of death and suffering.
Join the blockade and occupation to #StopDSEI setting up. 4th-11th September, London Docklands.
stopthearmsfair.org.uk
In case you missed it, Aaron Bastani’s list of reasons to Stop DSEI are well worth reading.
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One week today, Occupiers will be joining Stop The Arms Fair‘s week long blockade, setting up camp to prevent the world’s largest arms fair from taking place.
DSEI (Defence Security Equipment International) gather once every two years, dripping in blood and oil. Arms dealers and governments buy and sell weapons which kill, maim and torture.
The peace movement have been dancing this dance against the festival of death since well before 2001, when DSEI first moved to the ExCeL Centre, London Docklands.
(9000 points go to whoever spots protest stencil‘s excellent subvert in one of these…) 😉
Here are some #StopDSEI videos.
If they speak for you, please like, share, download and mirror this stuff, and all the other wonderful things everybody’s making and doing to help art the arms fair.
If like me, you can’t get to London there’s probably a weapons producer, military supplier or surveillance and security company somewhere near you. Why not pay them a visit?
Also. Let’s own the interwebz. #StopDSEI.
4th-11th September – NETWORK IT!
Please help share the things and stuff leading up to and throughout the blockade, however long it needs to last. Make and do and say the things. Find and sign all the petitions. Write a personal letter to your MP. Write to them again. Meditate. Pray. What ever works for you.
Wherever you are, whatever you’re doing, stay safe, stay strong and look after each other.
Solidarity.
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The world’s largest arms fair, DSEI returns to London’s Excel centre this September. Occupy The Arms Fair will be joining a massive coalition of civil society for a week of action designed to shut it down.
Video and animations by Ann Narkeh. Music: ‘Just War’, by Angry Band.
Read more about Stop The Arms Fair‘s upcoming week of action, 4th-11th September 2017, here.
Occupy News Network are planning to broadcast LIVE throughout the week.
Here’s Tarpaulin Simon‘s video report from London Docklands on Friday:
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The world’s largest arms fair, DSEI returns to London’s Excel centre this September. Deals are struck at DSEI which destroy lives.
Theresa May’s Government exports weapons to 22 out of 30 countries on their own human rights watchlist. A vicar’s daughter should know better.
More Occupy The Arms Fair memes:
The Asia-Pacific Defence and Security Exhibition (APDSE), the Australian equivalent of the British Defence and Security International (DSEI), has been scuppered three times, in 1991, 1986 and 2008.
Let’s make 2017 the year we finally turn this brutal industry the way of sustainable peace. Join Occupy The Arms Fair‘s direct action camp to stop the DSEI arms fair.
You can read more about Stop The Arms Fair‘s upcoming week of action, 4th-11th September 2017, here.
Occupy News Network are planning to broadcast LIVE throughout the week of action.
Here’s Tarpaulin Simon‘s video report from London Docklands on Friday:
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The world’s largest arms fair, DSEI have set up shop at London’s Excel centre every two years since 2001. Deals are struck at DSEI which destroy the lives of entire civilian populations. The UK Government exports weapons to 22 out of 30 countries on their own human rights watchlist.
Trading arms with Israel makes the UK complicit in Israel’s continuing violations of human rights and international law. The Israeli assault on Gaza in July-August 2014 killed 2,205 Palestinians (including 521 children). This was just one example of Israel’s ongoing acts of violence against the Palestinian people, however UK-made weapons and military technologies continue to be sold to and used by Israeli forces.
The Watchkeeper Surveillance Drone has been developed under a £1 billion joint venture contract, awarded by the Ministry of Defence to Thales UK and Israel’s Elbit Systems. This allows the UK military to benefit from weapons that have been ‘field tested’ on the occupied Palestinian people.
The Asia-Pacific Defence and Security Exhibition (APDSE), the Australian equivalent of the British Defence and Security International (DSEI), has been scuppered three times, in 1991, 1986 and 2008.
Let’s make 2017 the year we finally turn this brutal industry the way of sustainable peace. Join Occupy The Arms Fair‘s direct action camp to stop the DSEI arms fair.
You can read more about Stop The Arms Fair‘s upcoming week of action, 4th-11th September 2017, here.
More memes:
Occupy News Network are planning to broadcast LIVE throughout the week of action.
Here’s Tarpaulin Simon‘s report from London Docklands, earlier today.
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If you’re reading this, you are the distribution network.
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Join Occupy The Arms Fair‘s direct action camp to #StopDSEI, the world’s largest arms fair. 4th-11th September 2017, Excel Centre, London docklands.
Video by Ann Narkeh for the Occupy News Network and Occupy The Arms Fair.
Music: ‘Instrumental’ by Adam Kidd.
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