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This morning Trident Ploughshares campaigners, along with Extinction Rebellion, have blocked both entrances to the DSEI arms fair at the Excel Centre in London to disrupt the event and to highlight the role of arms traders in targeting civilians and threatening mass destruction.
Two cars and a boat on a trailer, along with activists locked on to each other through suitcases and tubes, are currently preventing arms fair traffic from entering the centre in preparation for the fair.
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The #NoNuclear day of action at #DSEI2019 is organised by Trident Ploughshares, and CND and is the third day of #StoptheArmsFair, a week of disruption and aims to stop arms companies like Lockheed Martin the world’s largest arms dealer from conducting their deadly business at the Defence and Security International. DSEI is hosted by the UK government.
Lockheed make the D5 missiles for the Trident submarines which are based at Faslane in Scotland as well as manufacturing the fighter jets that the UK government have arranged to be sold to Saudi Arabia and which are being used in its bombing campaign on Yemen where many thousands of people have died and civilians are being intentionally targetted.
Trident Ploughshares are calling on the UK government to stop the arms sales to countries like Saudi that are using them to commit gross violations of international law, to sign the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear weapons and to disarm the Trident nuclear weapons system.
Any use of Trident would inevitably cause catastrophic death and destruction of the environment and be in violation of international humanitarian law.
Brian Quail, from Glasgow, said: “I am sitting in the road here, utterly sickened and disgusted at what is going on, this obscene event and the killing that is going on in the Yemen, and the cops lining up dutifully to defend and protect the obscenity. It is utterly unspeakable.”