8th June 2007

Contact Andrew Beckett or Sarah Johnson

Email - smashedopress@yahoo.co.uk,
Tel 07875 708873

Local anti-arms trade campaign SMASH EDO are featured in 'Taking Liberties'(www.noliberties.com) - a new film on national release directed by Chris Atkins (winner of the British Independent Film Award). - to be shown at the Duke of York's cinema, Brighton. The film is billed as 'the shocking truth about the erosion of our civil liberties' and focusses on the attack on our rights during the Blair years.

On Friday 8th June – post showing - campaigners from SMASH EDO and SAVE OMAR will be on hand to answer questions.

For Press Tickets or free DVD screeners please contact Hannah or Lyndsey at Revolver Marketing 020 7243 4300 or lyndsey@revolvergroup.com

The campaign against local arms manufacturers EDO MBM is featured as a result of police harassment of campaigners and an attempt to create an exclusion zone around the factory using the Protection from Harassment Act 1997. The film covers collusion between EDO MBM and Sussex Police and the controversial practice of making 'arrests to order'.

There will be showings of Taking Liberties at the Duke of York's from the 8th-14th of June (www.picturehouses.co.uk).

www.smashedo.org.uk

Notes for Journalists

Brighton & Hove is a UN Peace Messenger City

EDO MBM Technologies Ltd are the sole UK subsidiary of huge U.S arms conglomerate EDO Corp, which was once named No. 10 in the Forbes list of 100 fastest growing companies (in 2006 they were in the Forbes top 10 losers list). They supply bomb release mechanisms to the US and UK armed forces amongst others. They supply crucial components for Raytheon's Paveway guided bomb system, widely used in the "Shock and Awe" campaign in Iraq.

EDO MBM makes electrical weapons components for the Israeli military. EDO MBM manufactures components to be incorporated into the Hellfire missile, which the Israeli army has recently used to attack the civilian population of Gaza. They have organised conferences on the development of UCAVs, unmanned aircraft which are widely used in aerial attacks on Gaza. EDO Corporation, of which EDO MBM Brighton is a wholly owned trading unit, has a direct contract with the Israeli armed forces and navy.

People involved in the anti-EDO campaign include, but are not limited to: local residents, the Brighton Quakers, peace activists, anti-capitalists, Palestine Solidarity groups, human rights groups, trade unionists, academics and students.

The campaign started in August 2004 with a peace camp. It's avowed aim is to expose EDO MBM and their complicity in war crimes and to remove them from Brighton.

Contact Andrew Beckett or Sarah Johnson For more
Details

Email - smashedopress@yahoo.co.uk, tel 07875708873
http://www.smashedo.org.uk

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