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HELP US STOP THE WORLD’S LARGEST ARMS FAIR

The ExCeL Centre plans to host the world’s largest arms fair, DSEi, in September 2009.

East London Against the Arms Fair (ELAAF) have been opposing the fair since it came to ExCeL in 2001 and will continue to do so until it is cancelled.

Exhibitors at the ExCeL Centre include charities, professional bodies and respectable companies who do not know that they are supporting a venue that helps to trade weapons of death and oppression around the world.

DSEi invites unscrupulous arms dealers from countries with no gun control. Advanced weapons are sold to countries at war with each other. Weapons, tanks and missiles are sold to regimes that oppress their own people or attack their neighbours. Delegates from countries that need aid for health services, education or agriculture are persuaded to incur debt to purchase weapons.

While the profits of DSEi and ExCeL are exported to their owners in America and Abu Dhabi, the shame of hosting the fair remains in London, and the slaughtered, bereaved and maimed victims are all over the world.

Contact ELAAF to find out how you can help, or check our website for details of our monthly musical protests at the ExCeL Centre.

www.elaaf.org
elaaf@hotmail.co.uk
07513792705
c/o Durning Hall, Earlham Grove, E7 9AB