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2024/04/12-05/15 worldwide
2024/01/12 Washington DC, USA
BREAKING: Protests Held Tonight at the White House & Times Square
Photo: Protest tonight in Times Square in New York City
BREAKING: Protests Held Tonight at the White House & Times Square
Photo: Demonstration tonight outside of the White House
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The Companies Profiting from Israel’s 2023 Attack on Gaza
(compiled by the AFSC Action Center–American Friends Service Committee)
No business without enemies: War and the arms trade
Jordi Calvo Rufanges, Centre Delàs d’Estudis per la Pau
STATE OF POWER 2021 May 2021
The arms trade is one of the world’s most successful corporate enterprises. Not only has it created an economic system that grows regardless, it has normalised war and security responses to every social crisis.
https://longreads.tni.org/stateofpower/no-business-without-enemies-war-and-the-arms-trade
Documenting European arms in the Saudi-led war in Yemen
Vredesactie has today launched the report “War in Yemen, Made inEurope”.
The report tries to document as many companies as possible involved in
arming the Saudi-led coalition. You can find the report here:
https://yemen.armstradewatch.eu/
Don’t hesitate to share us on twitter:
https://twitter.com/Vredesactie/status/1184710633167699969
Please contact me if you have any questions or remarks.
Border security, military industry and EU militarisation
[Presentation at the seminar on Euromilitarism, Oorlog is geen Oplossing / VD AMOK / Network No to War – No to NATO, Amsterdam, 14 April 2019 by Mark Akkermann]
Last Wednesday the action group ‘Stop the War on Migrants’ held an unnannounced noise demonstration at the headquarters of European arms giant Airbus in the Dutch city of Leiden. The action, at the day of the annual shareholders meeting of Airbus here in Amsterdam, was in protest of both the arms exports of Airbus to countries in conflict and dictatorships, such as Saudi-Arabia and Egypt, and the role of the company in the militarisation and externalisation of the European borders.
Read more: http://www.stopwapenhandel.org/node/2271
For more information on this subject see an overview of our reports and articles at: http://www.stopwapenhandel.org/bordersecurity