Anti DU Actions In UK
CADU Action at Armed Forces Recruitment Centre
Many bemused passers- by took one look at the front of the leaflet we gave out in front of the Manchester Armed Forces Recruitment office on July 29th and immediately turned it over to see what it was all about. They obviously didn't see the connection between the picture of the wheelchair and the military. (They can't have been reading our newletters!) .
We hope that those young men, perhaps "persuaded" by their benefits offices into visiting the recruitment centre, will think twice about joining up after reading our leaflet. We noticed that the soldiers staffing the centre were very keen that potential recruits avoid contact with us and these were ushered in very speedily when we engaged them in conversation! This was a useful exercise in giving out information that has been denied to British soldiers in the past and that even now is not welcomed by the authorities. It is something a very small group of people can do in any town that has an army recruitment office. It would also be useful to leaflet any recruitment or military information stand at a summer fair or agricultural show. Please contact the office if you would like some leaflets or if you would like to borrow the excellent posters that DAAMDU have produced. You can use your own props, such as an empty wheelchair or a zimmer frame! We have a right to demonstrate peacefully. Let's use it as often as we can.
Protesters swim across moat in action at MoD Procurement Centre, Bristol
DAAMDU ( Direct Action Against Militarism and Depleted Uranium) held a successful early morning demonstration at the new £50 million M.o.D Procurement Centre in Bristol on June 18th .The Centre is a very beautiful modern building surrounded by curvaceous moat and ornamental gardens. The perimeter fence which faced a busy roundabout was soon decorated by various banners including the CADU one. Peace activists picketed the entrance and hundreds of civil servants were leafleted as they arrived for work. At about 8.00a.m. four brave protesters, Ray Davies(CND Cymru), Margaret Jones( Bristol Trident Ploughshares), Dave Rolstone (peace activist from Pembrokeshire and Jim Kinnaird ( Bristol Peace and Justice Group) entered the icy cold water and swam across the moat . They managed to attach a large waterproof banner with, ‘MoD, Purchaser for Nuclear Crime ‘ written on it to a bridge support where it remained for the rest of the day. Ray Davies said that during the action all he had in mind were Iraqi children lying in ill equipped hospitals, dying with various radiation- related cancers, Iraqi mothers weeping and wailing for their loved ones: all of them screaming at me ‘Why me?'
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