{"id":13593,"date":"2016-03-03T14:35:56","date_gmt":"2016-03-03T14:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/intercardiff\/?p=13593"},"modified":"2016-03-03T14:35:56","modified_gmt":"2016-03-03T14:35:56","slug":"protest-planned-to-stop-the-cardiff-arms-fair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/politics-social-justice\/protest-planned-to-stop-the-cardiff-arms-fair","title":{"rendered":"Protest planned to stop the Cardiff arms fair"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>Campaigners from Cardiff come together to protest against this year\u2019s arms fair<\/strong><\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_14528\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14528\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/03\/IMG_0935.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-13607\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-14528 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/03\/IMG_0935.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/03\/IMG_0935.jpg 640w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/03\/IMG_0935-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/03\/IMG_0935-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14528\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-14528 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/03\/IMG_0935.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/03\/IMG_0935.jpg 640w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/03\/IMG_0935-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/03\/IMG_0935-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a> Activities were resisting the arms fair which was moved into Cardiff this year<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Anti-war campaigners are planning to protest against the arms fair to be held at Cardiff Motorpoint Arena on 16 March.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Activists from the group <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/1068820053162510\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stop the Cardiff Arms Fair<\/a> have called upon people to flood the venue with phone calls and implore them to not host the event. On the day of the fair, the group also plans to picket outside the Arena.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for Stop the Cardiff Arms Fair said, \u201cOrganisers denied it\u2019s an arms fair [but] clearly it is. Protests in Bristol meant Defence Procurement, Research, Technology and Exportability (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dprte.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DPRTE<\/a>) could no longer do their dirty business there. Let&#8217;s make sure they never want to come back to Cardiff. It&#8217;s horrific they want to do this in our city.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">According to the website of the exhibition, DPRTE, organisers of the Cardiff event, have described the fair as as \u201cUK\u2019s premier defense procurement event\u201d. It is the second year the DPRTE will be holding the event in Cardiff. On both occasions, Cardiff was chosen as a venue after they were forced out of Bristol.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Andrew Smith, member of the non-profit and non-governmental group Campaign Against Arms Trade (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.caat.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CAAT<\/a>), said, \u201cEvents like DPRTE provide a forum for arms companies to promote their wares and network. The conference has sessions on military exports and a presentation from <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">UK Trade and Investment Defence and Security Organisation<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (UKTI DSO), a body that exists solely to promote arms exports.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">On its website, more than 80 firms will showcase products and services directly to over 1,000 key decision-makers from the defence procurement community in order to gain more opportunities for private sector organisations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rachel Melly, from CAAT, said, \u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It is despicable that the DPRTE arms fair is taking place. The UK should not be promoting these companies or giving them a platform to sell their wares. Several of the exhibiting companies have sold arms to some of the most repressive regimes in the world.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">University students in the UK are also increasingly getting involved in the protest against the arms fair in recent years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Melly said, \u201cThere is a growing movement of students who oppose the arms trade. Like many other people, they are not happy about an arms fair taking place in their community and will be taking part in protests to oppose it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cStudents across the country are also campaigning to end universities&#8217; support for arms companies, including pushing universities to divest from arms companies and end research ties with them.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Will anti-war campaigners win this battle against the Cardiff arms fair?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":461,"featured_media":14526,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-13593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics-social-justice"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - 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