Be Proud to Make a Difference: Subvert an Army Ad & DSEi Day of Action, 11 September 2007, tank & critical mass

Army recruit­ment ads on phonebox­es in Oxford get the treat­ment they right­ly deserve!

Shut down the arms fair:Manzil Way phonebox (Class War stick­er already there!)

Pix­ies strike again in Oxford, this time to shut down a cer­tain arms fair, and also to pro­mote a cer­tain polit­i­cal ide­ol­o­gy…

http://dsei.org

1pm Cus­tom House.

Come by bus. Come by DLR. Come by bike. Come by foot. Come by tank.

Get to Cus­tom House.

Invade ExCeL.

Shut down the arms fair.

Bring your friends.

4.30pm Can­ning Town bus sta­tion.

The del­e­gates will be at your dis­pos­al.

Please use your imag­i­na­tion and a diver­si­ty of tac­tics.

Have fun…

See www.dsei.org for more infor­ma­tion and direc­tions.

DISARM DSEi
disarm@dsei.org

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Infor­ma­tion from today’s Space Hijack­ers press con­fer­ence

The Space Hijack­ers Arms Deal­ing at DSEi Arms Fair

Press Release

Every two years DSEi (Defence Sys­tems & Equip­ment Inter­na­tion­al), the worlds largest Arms fair, hap­pens at the ExCeL cen­tre in east Lon­don. Sell­ing every­thing from up close tor­ture weapons to long dis­tance civil­ian maim­ing bombs, the fair offers a wide range of choice to the 20,000 del­e­gates trav­el­ing to the fair from an assort­ment of cor­rupt regimes and often from coun­tries at war with each oth­er!

Pre­vi­ous­ly the Space Hijack­ers have attempt­ed to dis­rupt the fair, dis­guis­ing them­selves as arms deal­ers, board­ing trains to the fair with the deal­ers and then attempt­ing to sell them pros­thet­ic limbs (arms!) and lat­er sex toys (we fig­ured they were a bit too obsessed with phal­lic objects and were per­haps com­pen­sat­ing for a lack of weapons capa­bil­i­ties else­where).

On all pre­vi­ous occa­sions we have been escort­ed out of the area by the £4million worth of police who are called in to pro­tect the del­i­cate souls sell­ing the weapons in the fair. This year we have decid­ed to learn from the arms deal­ers them­selves and take a leaf out of their book.

After sev­er­al months of fundrais­ing and receiv­ing invest­ment from Artists Anony­mous, The Space Hijack­ers are now proud own­ers of a Sara­cen Mk1 tank, which we intend to dri­ve to the arms fair, right into the mix of pro­test­ers and police. As the pro­test­ers line up against the heav­i­ly armed police, we intend to roll up and auc­tion our tank to the high­est bid­der. If this so hap­pens to be an angry teenag­er in a bal­a­cla­va, then so be it. We don’t see how destruc­tion caused with our tank can pos­si­bly be our respon­si­bil­i­ty.

Sev­er­al peo­ple have got in touch with us claim­ing that this kind of behav­ior is slight­ly reck­less “what if some­one dri­ves over a police car in your tank?” Our response is sim­ple: we are sim­ply look­ing to make a prof­it, it’s just busi­ness trans­ac­tion. As with the arms deal­ers and their weapons, once the goods are out of our hands, how can we be held account­able for how they are used?

So ladies and gen­tle­men, roll up to the arms fair this Sep­tem­ber 11th and join in the bid­ding. We will have a pro­mo­tions team on hand to make the event mem­o­rable, danc­ing girls and boys, music and of course a 10 tonne armored vehi­cle ready to be dri­ven away!

For more infor­ma­tion please vis­it:

http://www.spacehijackers.org
http://www.dsei.org

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As part of a week of action against the DSEi arms fair there will be a ‘Bikes not Bombs’ crit­i­cal mass’ bike ride meet­ing up at Bank tube sta­tion at 10:30am on Tues­day, and rid­ing to the arms fair. Bikes and any oth­er human-pow­ered vehi­cle wel­come — no tanks!

There will also be a ride on Thurs­day evening for the arms deal­ers’ din­ner, leav­ing from by the NFT under Water­loo Bridge at 6:30pm.

http://dsei.org/