Who are Smash EDO?
We are residents of Brighton who marched against the war. We were sickened to learn that a company in our home town was not only profiting from, but making possible the illegal and immoral slaughter in Iraq. Smash EDO is a grassroots response to EDO’s complicity in murderous crimes — a banner under which people opposed to those crimes can rally.
Campaigners have been calling for the closure of EDO MBM/ITT since 2004. The campaign was kickstarted with a roof occupation and lock-on at the factory in May 2004 and demonstrations have taken place every week since then. Several protest camps have been held outside the factory and recent mass demonstrations at the factory have attracted thousands of people, for example at last years Mayday demonstration.
No government’s condemnation of terrorism is credible if it cannot show itself to be open to change by nonviolent dissent
- Arundhati Roy
As the UK government blindly follows the US regime, citizens of the UK have a special responsibility to prevent crimes around the world being committed in our name, with our taxes, with weapons built in our communities.
Individuals have international duties which transcend the national obligations of obedience imposed by the individual State
- Nuremburg War Crimes Tribunal
EDO are running scared – spending tens of thousands of pounds trying to silence us in the courts. EDO claim their weapons defend democracy — yet a High Court Judge threw out most of their proposed injunction as too draconian, commenting that “freedom of expression is a right jealously guarded in English law”.
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mohandas Gandhi
History teaches us that when ordinary people stand up together for their beliefs, nothing can stand in their way. That is what democracy is about; ordinary people making decisions…
EDO have ignored us, then laughed at us and now in desperation they are fighting us — but we will win!