Comments for Notts Anti-Militarism

Comment on Students Target Unethical Career Corporatism by stef

stef — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 14:26:15 +0000

It was interesting reading about the student knowledge of basic human right protecting them. dose anyone know where i can learn the same knowledge??

Comment on Water pistol demo at Heckler & Koch by Evey

Evey — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:42:35 +0000

@Peter: Seeing police armed with H&K weapons does not make me feel safer. In the UK a number of innocent people have been shot by police armed with H&K, and there are concerns that the weapons are too powerful. Some of the security services supplied by H&K have dodgy human rights records such as those in Serbia and Thailand. And what happens when H&K’s initial customers no longer need the weapons – they will be sold cheaply on the international market to whoever…

The only winners in the arms race between criminals and law enforcement are arms companies like Heckler & Koch. There are at least 640 million small arms in the world, and the effect they have is devastating. Making even more of them is not making the world a safer place.

The money that H&K donated to your charity was a drop in the ocean compared to the money that the company has made from weapons exported to Africa, which is again dwarfed by the cost of the damage caused by those weapons. H&K rifles are still at work in Africa, in countries like Sudan, Kenya and Nigeria, where their widespread availability fuels crime and armed conflict.

Comment on LV= profits from the arms trade by Sam

Sam — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 15:59:19 +0000

Whilst searching for ethical Life Insurance for myself I was interested to find this – http://www.animalfriends.org.uk/life_insurance/life_insurance_that_rewards.html – perhaps someone from the campaign against H&K should let Animal Friends know about LV’s true nature?

Regards
Sam

Comment on Peru protesters killed by police armed with H&K by ncclols

ncclols — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 19:11:27 +0000

This barely made an impression in the mainstream media, only one article in the Indy and without any mention of H+K. Campaign against LV= got a mention in this quarter's 'Ethical Consumer' magazine.

Comment on Armed Forces Careers Office graffitied by Green Pepper

Green Pepper — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 11:16:29 +0000

Didn’t know about this until today – great to see

Comment on What’s wrong with NATO? by Amy

Amy — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 12:35:02 +0000

Hi – This is simply a message of support and solidarity to an important and worthwhile campaign.
I would recommend spending a minute to visit http://www.variant.randomstate.org/pdfs/issue34/centrepages34.pdf. Taken from the current, Spring Issue of The Variant. Number 34. cheers – SMASH EDO

Comment on What’s wrong with NATO? by Ali

Ali — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 13:04:00 +0000

If we didn’t intervene in afghanistan, thousands more shia muslims would have been killed by the taliban. Currently, they’re still prosecuted where the taliban have strongholds in afghanistan, pakistan and in another form in Saudi Arabia where it is well documented about the plight of shias under the wahabi; surely withdrawing from afghanistan will just accentuate this.

A bloody war yes, but if we weren’t at war the taliban would be allowed to enslave innocent shia muslims in afghanistan who want to live normal lives. I’d love to hear why leaving afghanistan is a good idea…I think arguements that we are wasting money on a war that is failing is a futile one that reeks of apathy. If we leave, what happens next? Clearly the pakistani and afghan authorities are unable to provide adequate security themselves, just look at the attacks in lahore, and internal instability in pakistan. I think non action would result in worse casualties than actively confronting the taliban.

Any opinions?

Comment on Heckler & Koch by Andrew Beckett: We have a moral and legal right to prevent the damage caused by arms exports to Israel | Special News Updates

Tue, 24 Feb 2009 07:25:50 +0000

[...] their gates and sometimes on their rooftops. In Nottingham, the Heckler & Koch arms warehouse has been subjected to a regular picket; in Northern Ireland, Raytheon faced a “people’s [...]

Comment on Heckler & Koch by KULTURTECHNO » Heckler & Koch

KULTURTECHNO » Heckler & Koch — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 21:36:47 +0000

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Comment on Water pistol demo at Heckler & Koch by peter

peter — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 20:02:35 +0000

I disagree with some of the comments made on your web page. Yes heckler and koch make small arms. What about the many weapons they produce which prevent terrorism or assist law enforcement? Surely that is helping the world to be a safer place. Also, I am undertaking a charity event in Africa and approached the company asking if they would offset some of the weapons in Africa by donating money to help me with my charity to assist children with HIV. They were very quick to respond and made a donation.