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Protests in Solidarity with #Afrin Again Banned in #Germany – German Government Approves 31 Arms Deal with Turkish Army

Todays protests in solidarity with Afrin in Dortmund, Germany are banned by police authorities. Yesterday the cops already banned a gathering in solidarity with Afrin in Bonn. Last night cops also surrounded the autonomous center in Wuppertal and carried out ID checks after a gathering in solidarity with Afrin. The cops also checked people at Marienstrasse in Wuppertal. On Monday (06:00pm in front of the City Arkaden) people in Wuppertal will take the streets again to protest in solidarity with Afrin. All these  cities are in the German state of Nort Rhine Westphalia. While authorities are banning protests against the Turkish miliraty aggression against Afrin, the German government approved 31 arms deals for the Turkish army between December 18, 2017 and January 24, 2018. 

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Video Solidarity with #Afrin: Action Against Arms Manufacturer Northrop Grumman Litef GmbH in #Freiburg, #Germany

On Tuesday February 13th activists protested in front of arms manufacturer Northtrop Grumman Litef GmbH in Freiburg Germany.

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Solidarity with #Afrin: SPD Offices in #Hamburg Occupied – #Rheinmetall Pressing Ahead Arms Deal With Turkish State

Activists occupied the party offices of the Social Democratiy Party (SPD) in Hamburg yesterday. The activists hung up a banner at the front of the building with the text: “Blood on your hands!” Riot cops cleared the building, detaining two activists. German arms manufacturer Rheinmetall is pressing ahead another arms deal with the Turkish state. with For todays demonstration in solidarity with Afrin in Wuppertal, Germany police authorities banned all flags with Kurdish colours. 

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#Afrin Attacked With Vehicles and Weapons Made in #Germany

In the past week we published several reports about the repression against actions and demonstrations in Cologne, Dortmund and Hamburg. The German government seems to get more and more nervous. No wonder, many of the arms and military equipment that is being used by the Turkish army was made in Germany. In addition to the Leopard tanks, the Turkish soldiers and gangs are using rifles manufactured by Heckler & Koch and Mercedes vehicles.

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#OverTheFortress DSEI: A Supermarket for State Surveillance and Border Wars

As borders are increasingly militarised and their operation privatised, migration, more than ever before, is also an anti-militarist struggle, write Amy Hall and Sara Woods of Shoal Collective.

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Image: Border fence in Calais, France after a storm in 2015. Image by Calais Solidarity.

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‘War Starts Here, Let’s Stop it Here’: Anger as Death-Dealers Head for #London

This is the third of a three-part Ceasefire series of essays on the war on Yemen, published ahead of next week’s DSEI,the world’s biggest arms fair, which will take place on September 12th-15th. In part one, Tom Anderson writes on the geopolitical roots of the crisis. In part two, Safa Al-Shamy offers a personal firsthand account of the impact of the war on her country’s civilian population.

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Saudi’s bombing Campaign is Destroying #Yemen, and #Britain is Helping Them do it

This is the second of a three-part series of Ceasefire essays on the war on Yemen and the role of the UK’s Arms Trade industry, published ahead of next week’s DSEI arms fair in London. In the first essay, Tom Anderson writes on the geopolitical roots of the crisis. In the third essay, Paul Cudenec writes about the upcoming protest action planned against DSEI.

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Image: Aftermath of an airstrike by the Saudi-led coalition on Sa’ada, in northern Yemen. (Photo: Ghaith Abdul-Ahad/Guardian)

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The war on #Yemen is About Capitalism, not Sectarianism

In the first essay of the three-part #StopDSEI series by Ceasefire Magazine, Tom Anderson reviews the roots of the crisis in Yemen, where the civilian population has been enduring a brutal bombing campaign by a Saudi-led coalition, supported by the UK, since 2015.

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Image by Amnesty International.

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We Need Resistance Not Cooption: On Trump’s Transgender Military Ban

If your response to the army preying on poor communities and communities of color, using poverty as a new draft, is to use that to legitimize the existence of the institution as an escape from poverty rather than to call for abolition of using poor kids as cannon fodder for the wars of the rich, you might have some fucked up priorities.

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#Potzehne, #Germany: War Starts Here Camp 2017

From the 31th of july to the 6th of August the War-Starts-Here camp will set up in Potzehne (close to Magdeburg, Saxony-Anhalt,Germany). For several years now the War-Starts-Here camp has brought together lots of different people close to the modern and important military training site in Germany, the “Gefechtsübungszentrum Heer”, abbreviated as GÜZ. Antimilitarist discussions as well as practical resistance left a persistent mark on both the participants of the camp and the surrounding region.

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Peng Collective Disguised Themselves as Blood Money Makers Heckler & Koch

Berlin based artists unleash an army of Unicorns in a parody strike against the global weapon industry. The unicorns disguised themselves as blood money makers Heckler & Koch, Germany’s largest exporter of hand guns to America. Pirating 300 letters addressed to Gun shops that sell H&K guns PENG Collective stirred up some serious confusion as they decided to speak on behalf of H&K calling for An Immediate Nationwide Recall of All Its Products after a sudden realization that their business was in fact highly unethical.

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#UK #Cardiff Peace Activists Set For Showdown with DPRTE Arms Dealers Next Week

Campaigners are holding a day of protest on March 28th against controversial Cardiff event DPRTE, which they say “totally blurs the boundary between government and the arms trade.”

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