Mirror Talk 

for the missing students of Guerrero State

we remember

names

faces

your faces

your names

tear gas in our eyes

we touch your photos

we feel our own faces

we wonder how much of you is iin our reflection

in the mirror I look into

as a window of the soul

it shatters

we want to hug

you

students 

missing

forty-three dreams

keep us awake

Jude Cowan Montague

April 2017

Jude Cowan Montague's

 new website

(click here)
     

see videos of Kingsley Hall shows; January 2014 and April 2014

“Tout chrétien a une double mission : chercher à voir Jésus et permettre  aux autres de le voir...Rappelons que Dieu n’est pas toujours là où nous pensons le trouver. C’est sur la Croix que Dieu se donne à voir : nous ne le voyons vraiment que quand nous contemplons le visage défiguré de Jésus crucifié. L’heure de Jésus, c’est l’heure de sa mort et de sa glorification. Dans cette mort, le salut s’est ouvert à tous : il n’y a plus ni Juifs, ni Grecs…”     (Père Jean-Paul Sagadou, assomptionniste)

"... as a tortoise draws in its limbs,

The wise can draw in their senses at will.

Though aspirants abstain from sense pleasures,

They will still crave for them.  These cravings all

Disappear when they see the Lord of Love.

For even of those who tread the path,

The stormy sensescan sweep off the mind.

But they live in wisdom who subdue them,

and keep their minds ever absorbed in Me.

p.393 The Bhagavad Gita for Daily Living

Volume 1 The End of Sorrow by Eknath Easwaran

   Commentary by Sr Emmanuelle Billoteau



"The deepest root of the evils and iniquities which fill the industrial world is the subjection of labour to capital, and the enormous share which the possessors of the instruments of production are able to take from the produce."

         John Stuart Mill

Chapter XIII    The Right Of Labour To Profit

from The Co-operative Movement Today by G J Holyoake Methuen 1903

Profit in the store is the dividend of custom;  profit in the workshop is the dividend of labour.  Co-operators therefore maintain that the workman is entitled to a dividend from the gains of the workshop.

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"who dares remember that the world is thus,

that madness lurks among these men of power"

            Until That Day - Mike Parsons

             Michael Campbell Johnson SJ publishes JUST FAITH.

Spider's new novel - excert

On November 16th 1989, six Jesuit priests, their housekeeper and her daughter were massacred at the UCA University El Salvador.

Two nights of concerts at The Bar Madrid were organised with Mano Ventura and Talvin Singh, Paul Moss, Barricada and Lambada dancers. The tapes were sent to Radio Venceremos who wrote in thanks.

*

Women Eradicating Poverty,

A Film by Serah Odeke, Pauline Awuor & Vinick Kemuma set in the Mathare slum area of Nairobi.



Mike by Paul Moss 16/3/2012

 http://www.stopwar.org.uk/Troops out of AFGHANISTAN.

Read David Kessal's Lament for a Taliban Lad

 Joni Mitchell sings "Carey"(from the Blue Album) Wembley Arena, London 1983 on You Tube

 Get Together  -  Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young '69

Newham Writers



Information for supporters of 

EAST LONDON AGAINST ARMS FAIRS      ~   ~    ~  

Videos

Anti Trident 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_nN2fcULbw

Disarm the London Transport Museum

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZbej4vrbYw&feature=youtu.be

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MUSICAL PROTESTS at ExCeL outside the Shows  :-              2pm-5pm unless specified

Outside the ExCeL exhibition centre which is the chosen venue for another planned “DSEi” arms fair.

Outside ( but not against ) the good shows that ExCeL puts on, such as the Baby Show or the Boat Show.

At these nice shows, the music is not just a busk or for entertainment, we spread the word that ExCeL, not only hosts

 the benign Show to which the public are walking, but also hosts Arms Fairs.

.We are often supported by great jazz players, and sometimes other musicians. 

 More musicians and singers and performers (eg jugglers) are welcome to join us. 

You can also join in if you are not musical. 

We need people to collect signatures for a petition, hold up posters, give out leaflets etc. 

Custom House DLR Station ( via the DLR itself ) or   bus routes 147, 241, 325, 541

(541 is a free bus route from Canning Town)

From Custom House DLR Station or Victoria Dock Road E16 3BY,   follow the signs to ExCeL. 

We are at the end of the walkway just before you get to the entrance to the exhibition centre.

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ELAAF  MEETINGS  

are on dates as listed above , usually 2nd Wednesday each month.  

 7pm-9pm until the DSEI Arms Fairs are cancelled  at The Garden Community Café , 7 Cundy Road,  London E16 3DJ

From Prince Regent Station, Docklands Light Railway, go up Prince Regent Lane. Cundy Road is first turning on the left.

Anyone who wants to help to get the arms fair cancelled will be welcome at a meeting of EAST LONDON AGAINST ARMS FAIRS 

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meanwhile

In this wonderfully democratic country

The UK government is trying to block local authorities from making ethical investment decisions  relating to the arms trade.

read all about it at

https://www.caat.org.uk/campaigns/arms-trade-out/local-authorities

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Eurosatory  -   the  Paris Arms Fair ( the French DSEI)

http://www.eurosatory.com/home.aspx

 from June 13th to June 17th 2016

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The London Transport Museum, Covent Garden Piazza, nearest tube Covent Garden

    No arms companies at the London Transport Museum 

LondonCAAT's campaign, urging the London Transport Museum to end its relationship

 with arms company Thales, continues.

 The past few months alone have seen a range of creative actions from

 banner drops to an online day of action to leafleting with free 'colour in

 the drone' activity for kids. Here's a video from a previous demo -

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M31feJrL3OI&feature=youtu.be.

 Please join with them to tell the public about the other

 side of the London Transport Museum; the side that is willing to take

 money from an arms company and to provide their rooms to an arms company

 for meetings.

 They'll have their brand spanking new travel wallets! They'll have leaflets!

 They'll have placards! All they need is us

 Background:

Thales and the London Transport Museum:

 The London Transport Museum is sponsored by Thales. Thales is the eleventh

 largest arms company in the world. It supplies missiles, drones and other

 military products, and has sold to repressive regimes such as Saudi Arabia,

 Russia, Colombia, Kazakhstan and the UAE.

 The company has used the Museum’s rooms to meet with UK Trade and

 Investment Defence & Security Organisation (UKTI DSO), the government body

 responsible for promoting arms exports. UKTI DSO has also met an Indian

 military group there.

 The arms trade and our public institutions:

 When they found out that the National Gallery was sponsored by arms company

 Finmeccanica, they launched a campaign to 'disarm the gallery'. 

In 2012  Finmeccanica ended its long-term sponsorship deal with the National Gallery 

one year before the contract was due to terminate.

 But the National Gallery is not alone. More of our public institutions

 play host to arms companies and help to legitimise this devastating trade

 through these relationships.

 They want our public institutions to know that they can't get away with this

 any more. They will challenge these links wherever they find them and the

 London Transport Museum is their current focus.

for a video of a recent similar demo see

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=M31feJrL3OI

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London CAAT      Airbus protest at the Science Museum, June 12th

Airbus group, the world’s 7th largest arms producer, is sponsoring the Science Museum’s Leonardo Da Vinci Exhibition. Companies who profit from war should not have any relationship with the Science Museum. Airbus sells weapons to multiple repressive regimes, including Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. In January, Saudi Arabian airstrikes in Yemen were reported to have killed over 2,800 civilians. Targets of the airstrikes have included hospitals run by MSF (Doctors without Borders) and a centre for the blind. In selling weapons to Saudi Arabia, Airbus is complicit in these airstrikes. Airbus has also been the subject of multiple bribery corruption allegations, and in 2014 multiple staff members of Airbus were arrested on bribery charges due to an arms deal with Saudi Arabia.

Arms companies like Airbus use public institutions such as the Science Museum to gain legitimacy, and distract from their otherwise abhorrent business practices. London CAAT want the Science Museum to end its relationship with Airbus, and create an ethical sponsorship policy to prevent any future sponsorship by weapons companies.

Come join London CAAT on May 14th at 2pm to get the Museum to drop Airbus! . 

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STALL by Stratford Station

We feel that it is important to communicate with all those who live locally to where the Arms Fair is planned. 

To let them know of the horror that is planned for their doorstep. 

The Stratford Centre shopping mall is a good place to contact them. 

    2pm to 5pm Saturdays on dates listed above. 

Leafleting and stall with petition in the space outside Stratford Station.

( There are five "Stratford" stations, its the one the Central line goes to. ) 

Meet outside the Stratford Centre shopping mall (not Westfield)

 opposite the main entrance to the station across a pedestrian crossing. 

 More supporters welcome to give out leaflets in this big space. 

Sandwich boards optional.

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Why is the Arms Trade bad ?

Who suffers ?

# 1  Very often, exported weapons get used by the governments,  not for defence, but against their own people

# 2  Sometimes, exported weapons get used  against British soldiers

What is wasted ?

# 3  The time, talents and ingenuity of hundreds of capable people are diverted from useful projects.

       The skills of munition workers could be used , for instance, on work on renewable energy systems.

# 4  Our planet's resources are squandered on machines that can only do harm

 Who pays ?

#  5  Impoverished people in 3rd world are taxed to pay for weapons to keep up with those of country next door.

#  6  Amazingly, we taxpayers of the exporting countries actually end up worse off financially.

Would you do it ?

# 7  Would you sell knives to the kids next door on the basis that it "is legal",

"gave you employment " and " the kids have a right to defend themselves" ?

( These are the arguments put forward by the arms-dealers. 

   There's something wrong if these are their best excuses ! )

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 LONDON  CAAT    Your local branch of the Campaign Against the Arms Trade

  Monthly planning meetings

usually meets 3^rd Tuesday every month   6.30pm-8.30pm 

CAAT office , 5 Wells Terrace, N4 3JU

    Finsbury Park tube station.   

Wells Terrace exit, turn left along Wells Terrace,  5 is on your right.

If Wells Terrace exit closed, then from any exit follow the signs around the block to Wells Terrace

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 STOP THE ARMS FAIR COALITION    MEETINGS

unless specified  6.30 pm, at  CAAT Office, ( as above )  

ELAAF is a member of this coalition. 

You are welcome to represent your group or as an individual

 http://www.stopthearmsfair.org.uk/resist-the-arms-fair/

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London Catholic Worker anti - wardrones vigils 

Generally fortnightly Friday 4.30 to 6pm outside General Atomics( makers of wardrones) 

25 Old Broad Street    near Bank station

 londoncatholicworker.org

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Videos

Dr Who ? Dr WHAT ? at ExCeL 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNdpt8ZTjGI

The Invisible War 

trailer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jfr5hCLL8s

full version

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ECOqpv45tIo

Child Soldier video by Mizan the Poet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aldwAuyPJZg

South Korea

http://vimeo.com/80523277

UK 

http://www.stopthearmsfair.org.uk/arms-fair-challenged-by-daily-direct-action/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VocbA5OnaZs

Also Visit these  :- 

http://www.stopthearmsfair.org.uk/week-of-action-round-up/

www.caat.org.uk/events/highlights

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=_20YfmOumVs        

 www.dsei.org

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Pu--dc7-HIk           

 http://www.vice.com/vice-news/sofex-the-business-of-war-full-length

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 Link to some "top" defence people on Twitter 

http://www.defenceiq.com/air-land-and-sea-defence-services/articles/13-defence-industry-tweeters-you-should-follow/

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WHAT TO NOT SUPPORT  :-

But these websites may be of interest

www.dsei.co.uk/

 http://defensecontractormarketing.com/

BUT there are a few points on which we are in agreement :-

#  ExCeL is a great place to have a show

#  Diversification.   A company which had made arms starting to make non-defence socially useful products.

 Good for their business,  good for the world,  good for the local community. 

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MONEY

 Spending on weapons is estimated to equal £150 per person, per year, across the world.

ELAAF needs money for leaflets, room bookings etc. If you would like to donate please make cheques to

EAST LONDON AGAINST ARMS FAIRS and send to ELAAF’s postal address. 

EAST LONDON AGAINST ARMS FAIRS

c/o Garden Cafe,

7 Cundy Road, 

E16 3DJ

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More information and events on the following websites 

www.elaaf.org

www.caat.org.uk/events

www.stopthearmsfair.org.uk

www.dsei.org  

scraptrident.org 

www.caat.org.uk

Contact us to be in touch and get latest info at

elaaf@hotmail.co.uk

EAST LONDON

AGAINST ARMS FAIRS

Musical Protests

NO ARMS FAIRS!

ExCeL Centre

Custom House

E16 1XL

Off Custom House DLR


Watch this space for the next protest

We need more musicians, singers, leafleters, petition collectors, poster holders.

We would welcome jugglers, dancers, mime artists etc.

Future dates until Arms Fair is cancelled

                 www.elaaf.org

                elaaf@hotmail.co.uk

     Stop the Arms Fairs