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Home | Friday 19th December 2008 | Issue 660

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UP ON THE ROOF

Last week we reported about a roof occupation at arms corp Raytheon's office in Bristol. On December 9th the protest began against Raytheon's supply of weaponry being used in Iraq, Afghanistan and Palestine. After covering it we assumed it had finished. Well it hadn't and nearly two weeks later the occupation is still on, despite the freezing weather.

The Smash Raytheon campaign have done several rooftop occupations and blockades of the Bristol Raytheon office in the past few months. They are part of a network of anti-militarist groups springing up around the country, including Nottingham Heckler & Koch campaign (see SchNEWS 658), and 'veterans' Smash EDO (see www.smashedo.org.uk), against Brighton's bomb factory EDO-MBM. Recently a gathering was held in Edinburgh in the build up to protests in November 2009 against the NATO summit to be held there (see SchNEWS 659).

It's hoped the roof-sitter is still there for the solidarity demonstration 1pm-3pm this Saturday (20th), at Raytheon, Argentum House, Unit 510, Bristol Business Park, Frenchay. Bristol.

* See also http://raytheonout.wordpress.com



 

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