Recruiting For Death

A national engineering recruitment fair held in Birmingham recently was host to many leading UK arms organisations, including British Aerospace, GKN, Lucas and DERA. 12 activists dressed smartly and entered the heavily policed fair to hand out leaflets, hold up banners and chat to people attending the fair. Two people climbed onto the roof and unfurled a banner saying "Recruiting Today... The UK Death Trade". One person was arrested for holding a bottle of fake blood, but was later released without charge. The demonstration continued outside and the next day, with a die-in outside the main entrance and an alternative careers stall. The response from people attending was on the whole very positive. The next engineering recruitment fair is in Bristol on the 7th and 8th of April.

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