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Dear friend
On Thursday, over a thousand trades unionists under the banner "Workers for a Free Palestine", blocked four arms company sites linked to the manufacture of the F35 war plane, in:
- Dorset
- Lancashire
- Glasgow
- Brighton
They were joined by CAAT supporters and others in solidarity with Palestinian people.
The F35 has been used by Israel to bomb Gaza, and the picketers wanted to ask workers and fellow trades unionists on these sites to end their complicity saying,
"Genocide and war crimes: not in our name"
If you would like to join Workers for a Free Palestine on future days of action, you can find the link to sign up and for the solidarity fund on the Workers for a Free Palestine website.
You can find out more about the UK's arms exports to Israel by downloading CAAT's latest fact sheet, "Gaza and UK Arms Sales to Israel" which gives details of what is manufactured where.
If you would like to organise a demonstration yourself, we can help let other CAAT supporters in your area know about it: just get in touch by replying to this email.
Thank you for your continued support and resistance to the deadly arms trade.
Kirsten Bayes
Local Outreach Coordinator
Campaign Against Arms Trade
(Pics credit: Workers for a Free Palestine)
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