Smash EDO! Shut down the Brighton bomb makers! 18 January 2010
from email, 9 January 2010:
MEETING POINT - We will announce the meeting point for the demo closer to the time, please watch this space to find out details - Alternatively you can sign up to receive a text when the location is announced - email your phone number to smashedo@riseup.net or text your number to 07538093930
For three weeks in January 2009, the bombs rained down on Gaza. At the end of Israel's brutal bombing campaign and ground offensive over 1400 Palestinians had been murdered, including 314 children.
Here in Brighton EDO MBM/ITT manufacture some of the weapons components that devastated so many lives. All over the world thousands of people watched appalled at the carnage on the streets of Gaza. Thousands marched and raged at the destruction of peoples' homes and lives.
On January 18th 2010, the anniversary of the final day of Operation Cast Lead, we will come together to remember the people of Gaza.
We will not allow those who supported their pain and profited from their suffering to go unchallenged. We will not let this genocide be forgotten. On the first anniversary after their deaths, we will rise up. We will take to the streets. We will remember...
Assemble at 1pm, wear black...
More details, including the meeting place, will be published here closer to the date.
How to find out the Meeting Point for the Demo
We will not be making the meeting point for the demo known until shortly before the demonstration. Watch this space to find out the meeting place. Alternatively you can sign up fto receive a text when the location is announced - email your phone number to smashedo@riseup.net or text your number to 07538093930
Accommodation and Transport
If you are organising regional transport to Brighton - or looking for it - likewise if you can offer accommodation or are needing it for the demo, call 07538093930 or email smashedo@riseup.net
Local contacts
get in touch with a local contact in your area to get hold of flyers, posters, find people from your area going to 'Remember Gaza' and find transport:
Cornwall - kernowaction@gmail.com
Hastings - info@hastingsagainstwar.org
Greater Manchester - info@targetbrimar.org.uk
Bath - bluehayes@gmail.com
Swansea - d@undercurrents.org
Cambridge - gandhi_hands@riseup.net
Bristol - bristolantimilitarists@googlemail.com
Oxford - oarc@riseup.net
London - remembergaza@dsei.org
Sheffield - sheffield@af-north.org
Leeds - leedscwf@googlemail.com
Press Enquiries
Call Andrew Beckett or Chloe Marsh on 07754135290 or email smashedopress@riseup.net
Download the two-sided A4 colour flyer in pdf format (1.9 meg)
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