No Religion In Arms: On Tuesday fifth September 2017 numerous religion teams got here to London’s Docklands for a faith-based day of protest towards the Defence and Safety Gear Worldwide (Dsei) Arms truthful, the most important arms truthful on this planet, held each two years on the Excel Centre on the north financial institution of the Royal Victoria Dock in Newham.
Earlier than I arrived some protesters had locked themselves collectively on the strategy highway to the East gate of the location stopping deliveries for organising the occasion for a while.
Folks of varied faiths have been sitting beside the highway and numerous Quakers held a gathering on the grass verge. A variety of them went and sat down within the highway to cease deliveries. Police talked with them for a while, urging them to maneuver earlier than carrying them away and depositing them on the grass.
A couple of have been arrested and led away to ready police vans however the protest continued with extra shifting out to dam the highway.
Then 4 protesters descended on ropes from a bridge over the strategy highway just a few hundred yards to the north, dangling in mid-air, with every pair holding a banner between them and blocking the highway for round an hour and a half earlier than police managed to take away them. Others stood in a circle and held a mass on the blocked highway nearer to the Excel Centre.
There are simply two gates to the Excel centre web site virtually a mile aside, and on the different, the West Gate I discovered a small group of protesters strolling very slowly in entrance of lorries coming into the centre and being moved away by police. One girl who stored going again onto the highway was finally arrested.
I returned to the East Gate, the place a small group of Buddhists was sitting and praying by the facet of the highway. An Anglican group arrived to sing peace songs and a few protesters had introduced small black coffins with pictures of a few of the kids killed in conflict taped to the highest which have been organized alongside the facet of the highway.
The protests continued for numerous days and I returned a number of occasions to {photograph} them as you may see on the hyperlinks listed under. I additionally coated protests towards the arms truthful in different years, a minimum of since 2007.
Protests are going down now over the 2023 Dsei Arms truthful, once more being held in Newham and you’ll find particulars on the Cease The Arms Honest web page. The embody a vigil by the Palestinian Solidarity Marketing campaign in the present day, fifth September 2013, and different occasions on the web site and elsewhere till the arms truthful ends on Friday fifteenth September.
Protests towards Dsei Arms Honest in 2017:
Wreath for victims of the arms commerce
#Arming The World
DSEI East Gate blocked
Competition of Resistance – DSEI West Gate
DSEI Competition Morning on the East Gate
Protest picnic & checkpoint at DSEI
Protesters block DSEI arms truthful entrances
No Religion in Warfare DSEI Arms Honest protest
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