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17th June 2009
Names of Gaza Victims to be read Outside Brighton Bomb Factory
Local
campaigners today will read out the names of the 1400 people killed
during the Israeli bombardment of Gaza in January this year
During
January 2009 the Israeli army launched an attack on the civilian
population of Gaza. Over 1400 people were killed including over 300
children. EDO supply components to the Israeli army and were hence
complicit in this massacre.
On January 17th, exactly five months
ago, during the bombing of Gaza, six people broke into the EDO factory
and damaged over £300 000 worth of machinery to prevent the factory
from supplying weapons to the Israeli military.
Chloe Marsh, press spokesperson for the Smash EDO campaign said
"EDO MBM/ITT, and companies like them, enabled the Israeli army to
carry out a murderou attack on the people of Gaza. Today, five
months after the bombing, we will be reading out the names of all 1400
people who were killed outside of the bomb factory to ensure that this
war crime is not forgotten."
for more info call 07754135290 or email smashedopress@riseup.net
Notes for
Journalists The Company
EDO MBM Technologies Ltd are the sole UK subsidiary of huge U.S
weapons manufacturer EDO Corp.From their base in Moulescoombe
Brighton, EDO MBM manufacture vital parts for the Hellfire and
Paveway weapons systems,laserguided missilesused extensively in
Iraq, Lebanon, Palestine and Somalia. EDO Corp were recently acquired
by ITT in a multi-billion pound deal. ITT's links to fascism go
back to the 1930s. The founder Sosthenes Behn was the first foreign
businessman received by Hitler after
his seizure of power. The
Campaign
There has been active campaign against the presence o f EDO MBM
in Brighton since the outbreak of the Iraq war.Campaigners include
students, Quakers ,Palestine solidarity activists, anti-capitalists
and academics.
Despite an injunction under the protection of harassment act (which
failed) and over forty arrests the campaign is still going strong.Their
avowed aim is to expose EDO MBM and their complicity in war crimes
and to remove them from Brighton. They hold regular weekly demos
outside the
Moulescoombe factory on Wednesday's between
4 and 6. THE FILM
On the Verge is an independent film about the SMASH EDO Campaign
“In 2004 a group of Brighton peace campaigners began to bang
pot and pans outside their local arms manufacturers EDO MBM in
disgust of their part in the Iraq war. This has grown into the
Smash EDO campaign, which has cost the company millions, been
the subject of large scale police operations and has tested the
right to protest in the UK.Using activist, police and CCTV footage
plus interviews with those involved in the campaign, 'On The Verge'
tells the story of one of the most persistent and imaginative
campaigns to emerge out of the UK's anti-war movement and direct
action
scene.”
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