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docklands arms fair demo

13:40 / 10.09.01

is anyone going to be there at any point this week?

i know the initial demonstration kicks off (er, perhaps i need a different phrase) tomorrow morning when the arms fair opens, but i also read it's going to be ongoing while the fair is open.
http://open.genie.co.uk/news/uknews/uknes.hnspl?sequence=998730

quote:The planned Fiesta for Life Against Death is described on the websites as a "fusion of celebration and action" using various forms of civil disobedience to make the point against the global trade in death and destruction.

so who's gonna be there some point this week? let's coordinate. i'm probably gonna go and observe on my own tomorrow if no one else pipes up.

14:54 / 10.09.01

Um, exactly where and what time tomorrow morning? If I get details I'll try to be there but can't guarantee it.

17:27 / 10.09.01

try http://www.disarm-trade.org/

09:07 / 11.09.01

irritatingly slow loading site.

quote:Meet 12 noon, 11 September 2001
Tidal Basin Road, London E16

14:34 / 12.09.01

Ta folx, got there in the end. There were a couple of thousand people. There was rather heavy-handed policing initially (a cordon at Canning Town station, lots of push and shove and a couple of arrests) but eventually we were allowed to march to that Tidal Basin bit and it all went increasingly smoothly, lots of samba and theatre and stuff. At the end of the day, what with yesterday's events it all seems a bit irrelevant...

17:46 / 12.09.01

kinda wish i'd made it..