Updated! Bristol Arms Maker Under Siege

bristol | peace | feature Sunday December 14, 2008 16:45 by imcvol

Rooftop Protest at Cluster-Bomb Maker's Bristol Offices: Week 2!

Update!: As the process enters the 2nd week, Ed Hill writes; The rooftop protesters welcome visitor during the day, evenings, and at especially at weekends. Recently policing has been light to non-existent. Security guards in the office buildings are adopting a stay-out-of-sight policy. Food, water, thermos of hot drinks, and other treats can be hauled up to the roof on a rope. Wish-list [of wants]...Full article.

Ed Hill writes: Anti-war protesters have braved sub-zero temperatures in the night to continue their rooftop protest at the Raytheon office block in Frenchay near Bristol...This morning supporters on the ground delivered a letter to the office unit, Argentum House, informing them that Raytheon is breaching international law and should be given notice to leave. The Raytheon office is at Argentum House, Bristol business Park Frenchay, near the MOD site at Abbeywood. This is the third roof-top protest as part of a total of eight on-going weekly protests at the Raytheon offices in Frenchay, One roof-top protester said "The US and Britain had no more right to invade Iraq or Afghanistan than Nazi Germany did to invade Poland or France. Raytheon played their part by producing foul, indiscriminate weapons and we won’t be quiet till they have left our city for good."... Raytheon are 4th largest arms company in the world with a $20 billion turnover per year. They are involved massively in the manufacture or delivery systems of WMD. They are the biggest cruise missile maker (Patriot and tomahawk). Their range of both cruise-missiles and plane-dropped bombs can be loaded with cluster bombs. Cluster bombs are indiscriminate weapons killing civilians and soldiers alike. Full article.

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