DSEI East Gate blocked
ExCeL, London. Sat 9 Sep 2017
'Takeme to the Hague' says the placard around the neck of a protester
in a Blair mask with a coffin and army recruiting poster
The second person from the lock on is held by police and then led
away
The lorry still cannot be moved as a man has gone under the wheel.
Police drag him out
and try to handcuff him
but find it hard to get his hands together
Eventually they manage and carry him away
Janine Booth performs one of her poems
Others are now sitting in front of a lorry blocking its way
While a group dances on the other carriageway
And the Strawberry Thieves choir sings though their normal conductor
has been arrested
A group of people have linked arms and are sitting on the road refusing
to move, surrounded by police
One holds a poster 'Stop Selling Arms to Saudi Arabia'
A woman hands out fliers from her bicycle with a placard with
the hippy message 'Bombing for Peace is like Fucking for Virginity'
As I leave I visit the pedstrian entrance to ExCeL where East London Against
Arms Fairs have a musical protest
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