Jonathan Edwards MP at 'Stops the Arms Fair' in solidarity with Palestine

DSEi (Defence and Security Equipment International) is -- according to its organisers, Clarion Events -- the biggest arms fair in the world. The four-day arms bazaar takes place every two years at the ExCel Centre in London's Docklands. The next one is due to take place from 13-16 September, 2011.

Stop the Arms Fair, formed in January 2011, is a coalition of groups and individuals campaigning to end government support for DSEi 2011 and all future arms fairs, and to put a stop to them. Stop the Arms Fair say: no more bloody arms fairs in London or anywhere.

Members of the coalition include:

• Boycott Israel Network
• Bristol Against the Arms Trade
• Campaign Against Arms Trade
• Disarm DSEi
• East London Against Arms Fairs
• Fellowship of Reconciliation
• GreenAcre Project
• London CAAT
• London Catholic Worker
• London Guantánamo Campaign
• Palestine Solidarity Campaign
• Pax Christi
• Smash EDO
• SPEAK Network
• Stop the War Coalition
• Student Christian Movement
• Trident Ploughshares
• Uniting for Peace
• Veggies
• War on Want

Stop the Arms Fair is seeking to build a large coalition of groups and individuals in the coming months to send out a loud and clear message to the government and Clarion Events that inviting representatives of repressive regimes and their armed forces to hob-nob and do dodgy deals at DSEi and similar arms bazaars with representatives from the UK government and unscrupulous arms companies from around the world IS NOT OK.

For more information please visit - stopthearmsfair.org.uk

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