[IMC-UK-Features] Smash EDO Action Topic

[thewallmustfall at riseup.net]

Hi

...I am happy to create the page once we agree on it.

how do we get agreement ?

...  We will need to find > the links to all the Smash EDO related
articles to go on the page and> we'll manually need to tick the
appropriate tickbox in admin on all of
> them.

I would be happy to help with ticking the boxes in admin to create the page

here's a brief intro (brief enough??)

Every bomb that is dropped and every bullet that is fired in the name of
this war of terror has to be made somewhere and wherever that is it can be
resisted...

ITT/EDO MBM are a unit of a US corporation manufacturing weapons by the US
and UK armed forces in Iraq and the Israeli army in Palestinr

Smash EDO are residents of Brighton who came together to resist the war in
Iraq and the occupation of Palestine. People in Brighton were sickened to
learn that a company in their 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.

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.

EDO are running scared - spending millions of pounds trying to silence
activists through the courts. Dozens of the directors of EDO MBM have
resigned due to the four year long direct action campaign and EDO has
closed down part of its operation in Brighton. In December 2007 EDO
Corporation was sold to ITT - It remains to be seen whether the business
in Brighton will continue.




> Eh up,
>
>> About a year ago I proposed a Smash EDO Action Topic (I am not sure if
>> this is the right term - or is it major report)
>>
>> There were no concerns raised abut this and i think it was agreed on
>>
>> I'd like to propose it again
>
> Nice one. I'm happy for this action topic to go up, but at the moment on
> the wiki topic page it's classed under 'unagreed topics':
>
> http://docs.indymedia.org/view/Local/ImcUkTopics
>
> I'm not sure why as the only couple of emails I can find about this are
> not voicing any objected:
>
> http://lists.indymedia.org/pipermail/imc-uk-features/2006-October/1022-ip.html
> http://lists.indymedia.org/pipermail/imc-uk-features/2006-October/1023-fs.html
>
>> Smash EDO have consistently used Indymedia for four years and there is
>> enough content to justify its own page
>>
>> Could anyone sort this?
>
> I am happy to create the page once we agree on it. We will need to find
> the links to all the Smash EDO related articles to go on the page and
> we'll manually need to tick the appropriate tickbox in admin on all of
> them.
>
> Also if it is an action topic page it will be archived by year so I guess
> it would be:
>
> URL: en/actions/2008/smashedo
>
> Also maybe you could write a short description, this will appear at the
> top of the page..
>
> Cheers, Wietse
>
>
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