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Refusing to Kill is Not a Crime |
Civil disobedience |
![]() Guernica by Pablo Picasso, 1937 |
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| Hammered by the Swedes. Using hammers and bolt cutters, peace activists repeatedly broke into weapon plants and damaged weapons in Sweden. Activists from the Swedish group OFOG/Avrusta admitted damaging twenty high explosive grenade launchers as well as internal parts to a Howitzer 77. 20 October 2008 | |||
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Anti-war train drivers refuse to move arms freight Railway managers cancelled the Ministry of Defence service after the crewmen, described as "conscientious objectors" by a supporter, said they opposed Tony Blair's threat to attack Iraq. The anti-war revolt is the first such industrial action by workers for decades 9 January 2003 |
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Stopping “death trains” in Italy |
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Fiat Pomigliano shut down against the war The mass meeting of the workers stated that they wanted: “… to connect the struggle against redundancies and the ever-increasing speed of production to a conscious refusal of a war which will yet again slaughter workers and poor people in Iraq, and will worsen the situation of rights and conditions of life of workers and poor people in our country, since the billions of dollars and euros spent on the war will be taken from our pensions, our health service and every other service and social care”. 14 March 2003 |
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