Derry Direct Action Against Merchants of Death

national | miscellaneous | news report Saturday April 27, 2002 01:24 by The Damned

Protest slogans go up in Derry

The Damned (Direct action against merchants of death) have put up two more massive protest slogans on major traffic routes in Derry.

The Damned (Direct action against merchants of death) have put up two more massive protest slogans on major traffic routes in Derry: at Fort George and the Bus Station. The slogans read "Palestine Burns, Raytheon Earns".
Raytheon is the world's third largest arms manufacturer. They were invited to Derry by all the major N. Ireland parties and significanlty the NobelPeace Prize laureates John Hume and David Trimble.
Their software plant in Derry is building software for the UK govenment's Astor project - an aeroplane for precision targeting of bombs and missiles especially in urban settings.
The current protest is one of a large number of protests to have taken place in Derry both since before and after their arrival. The protest is made to coincide with the mass protest in Dublin this Saturday and to hilight the immorality of making money from the killing and maiming of human beings.