Protest the heinous arms dealer dinner
On January 23rd, the UK arms trade will host its annual black tie dinner at Grosvenor House in London. Aerospace, Defence and Security is the trade organisation for defence companies and its dinner will bring together arms dealers, MPs and military personnel to dine on expensive food and imbibe expensive champagne. They will do this while over 50,000 people have died in the Yemeni war tand over 14 million people are at risk of famine. The bombs that these companies have sold to Saudi Arabia are directly responsible for the catastrophe in Yemen and these arms dealers have to be challenged for their complicity in this man-made disaster. The government has licensed nearly £5bn of weapons to the Saudi regime since the war started so the MPs who attend this dinner are also complicit in the death and destruction being inflicted on Yemen.
Join us from 6.30pm on January 23rd to protest this awful, hypocritical event and demand that the UK stop arming Saudi Arabia. You can share the Facebook event and more details are also on the CAAT website.
Join East London Against Arms Fairs to protest at the venue of the DSEI arms fair
The DSEI arms fair is due to take place in September this year and on January 12th, East London Against Arms Fairs will be having a protest at the venue of DSEI. Join them from 2.30pm to call for the arms fair to be cancelled – all details here.
Next London CAAT meeting
With DSEI in mind, we will be having our first meeting of the year on January 15th and planning how we will resist the sheer horror of this arms fair. The fair hosts military delegations from some of the most oppressive regimes in the world and arms companies will be there hawking their weapons to them. Join us to plan how we take action against the fair – we meet at 6.30pm in the CAAT office in Finsbury Park and the address is Unit 4, 5-7 Wells Terrace, N4 3JU.