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Anti-militarists to Disrupt NATO Exercise
16.6.2009 - www.ofog.org
Peace activists from Germany, Finland and the UK are joining the Swedish anti-militarist network Ofog in disrupting NATO's largest aerial exercise of 2009 this week in Swedish Lapland.
Altogether, over 50 fighter jets and 2 000 soldiers will gather in Northern Sweden on June 8-16, to train for war. The British aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious, with 1 000 soldiers on board, will be stationed in the Gulf of Botnia outside the city of Luleå. Sweden is not a member of NATO.
The anti-militaristic direct action network Ofog will try to stop and disturb the exercise by any nonviolent means necessary. "Just like NATO we will be in the air, on the land and in the sea," said an Ofog spokesperson. Ofog will build on its experience from blockading the Faslane nuclear base in Scotland, NATO summits and various military institutions as well as from conducting radical direct actions against the Swedish weapons industry.
"We will do everything in our power to show NATO that their business is hideous and deadly. NATO is not a defensive alliance. It is the world's largest nuclear weapons club and war machine. Its main purpose is to maintain Western dominance and it must be stopped, not just in Sweden but across the world," the spokesperson said.
As part of the resistance, Reality Inc. (Ofog's new subsidiary) will provide collateral damage services for NATO's exercise. A Reality Inc. spokesperson said, "the state of Sweden is providing everything else for the exercise: airspace, areas to bomb, airports and other logistical support.
However they have missed one critical component: the collateral damage. Reality Inc. is offering to upgrade the exercise by providing this crucial missing ingredient. In NATO's wars, 90 percent of the victims are civilians.
The exercise will only be realistic with our Collateral Damage Stand-ins(TM). With the expansion of NATO and the militarisation of EU we see this as a growing market and an exciting business opportunity in a hard financial climate."
Place: Luleå, Arctic circle, Sweden. Dates: June 6-16, 2009.
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Altogether, over 50 fighter jets and 2 000 soldiers will gather in Northern Sweden on June 8-16, to train for war. The British aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious, with 1 000 soldiers on board, will be stationed in the Gulf of Botnia outside the city of Luleå. Sweden is not a member of NATO.
The anti-militaristic direct action network Ofog will try to stop and disturb the exercise by any nonviolent means necessary. "Just like NATO we will be in the air, on the land and in the sea," said an Ofog spokesperson. Ofog will build on its experience from blockading the Faslane nuclear base in Scotland, NATO summits and various military institutions as well as from conducting radical direct actions against the Swedish weapons industry.
"We will do everything in our power to show NATO that their business is hideous and deadly. NATO is not a defensive alliance. It is the world's largest nuclear weapons club and war machine. Its main purpose is to maintain Western dominance and it must be stopped, not just in Sweden but across the world," the spokesperson said.
As part of the resistance, Reality Inc. (Ofog's new subsidiary) will provide collateral damage services for NATO's exercise. A Reality Inc. spokesperson said, "the state of Sweden is providing everything else for the exercise: airspace, areas to bomb, airports and other logistical support.
However they have missed one critical component: the collateral damage. Reality Inc. is offering to upgrade the exercise by providing this crucial missing ingredient. In NATO's wars, 90 percent of the victims are civilians.
The exercise will only be realistic with our Collateral Damage Stand-ins(TM). With the expansion of NATO and the militarisation of EU we see this as a growing market and an exciting business opportunity in a hard financial climate."
Place: Luleå, Arctic circle, Sweden. Dates: June 6-16, 2009.
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