About Smash EDO

"We recommend that people throughout the world launch nonviolent actions against US and UK corporations that directly profit from this war”

- 7th Recommendation of the World Tribunal on Iraq, June 2005; www.worldtribunal.org

We are residents of Brighton who marched against the war. We were sickened to learn that a company in our home town was not only profiting from, but making possible the illegal and immoral slaughter in Iraq. Smash EDO is a grassroots response to EDO's complicity in murderous crimes - a banner under which people opposed to those crimes can rally.

"No government's condemnation of terrorism is credible if it cannot show itself to be open to change by nonviolent dissent”

- Arundhati Roy

As the UK government blindly follows the US regime, citizens of the UK have a special responsibility to prevent crimes around the world being committed in our name, with our taxes, with weapons built in our communities.

"Individuals have international duties which transcend the national obligations of obedience imposed by the individual State”

- Nuremburg War Crimes Tribunal

EDO are running scared - spending tens of thousands of pounds trying to silence us in the courts. EDO claim their weapons defend democracy - yet a High Court Judge threw out most of their proposed injunction as too draconian, commenting that "freedom of expression is a right jealously guarded in English law".

"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."

- Mohandas Gandhi

History teaches us that when ordinary people stand up together for their beliefs, nothing can stand in their way. That is what democracy is about; ordinary people making decisions - not rich corporations spending tens thousands of pounds to reduce dissent to literally silence - which is what EDO want.

EDO have ignored us, then laughed at us and now in desparation they are fighting us - but we will win!

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