[News] One week in, The Siege is succeeding - disrupting Elbit and celebrating resistance

Sun May 7 10:49:24 EDT 2023

After over 35 arrests, the mass action continues. Join us today and 
through next week

  *One week in, The Siege is succeeding - disrupting Elbit and
  celebrating resistance*

Over 35 arrests have been made at the site of the Palestine Action 
siege, but the police must be disappointed that their campaign of 
harrassment and intimidation is failing. More people continue to turn up 
to join the mass action against Elbit in Leicester, and the siege has 
successfully undermined Elbit's business throughout this week.

While the police seized 
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tents, supplies, and food, the local community stood in solidarity - 
bringing down cooked food, bedding, and equipment. The factory has 
become a place for community resistance - while keeping Elbit closed, 
their premises are now a space for workshops, prayers 
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football 
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and music. The people are standing defiant - keeping the siege going, 
now in its seventh day.

And today is a great day for you to join us at the site, in Meridian 
Business Park, Braunstone Town, Leicester. Today, from 4PM, hear 
directly from Palestinians 
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who came to shut Elbit down, and hear their voices on Palestinian 
solidarity here in Britain. Just before, at 3PM, the Leicester community 
have organised a football tournament at the site.

If you can't make it down today, then come any time throughout next week 
- as we keep up the Siege, and continue the disruption caused to 
Israel's arms trade. If you are to come down, hot food and camping gear 
are the most welcome donations for those at factory.

Throughout the week, the factory has been without staff and inoperative, 
listed as 'temporarily closed' (Elbit removed this information from the 
web 
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once we pointed it out). We want to keep it this way, and the more of us 
there are at the site, the longer we'll keep Elbit from making their 
drone technologies in Leicester.

The siege will continue on for as long as it takes. We have completed 
the first week of the mobilisation - but are willing to stay for another 
2, 4, 8, or however many weeks are needed before the factory is closed 
for good. Whatever police and private security Elbit have at hand to 
protect their business-of-bloodshed, we have hundreds of dedicated 
actionists, a community standing with us, and Palestinian solidarity to 
guide us. We will not back down until the factory is shut down.

*UAV TACTICAL SYSTEMS, Unit F, Meridian East, Meridian Business Park, 
Leicester, LE19 1WZ*

*JOIN THE SIEGE
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*DONATE* 
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  Support the Teledyne 4 in Caernarfon Crown Court, from Tuesday 9th May

After six months on remand in prison, the 'Teledyne 4 
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will be appearing in Caernarfon Crown Court, Wales, next week, as they 
fight 'conspiracy to commit criminal damage' charges and prove that 
#TeledyneIsGuilty.

The four Welsh activists took action against the Prestigne, Powys, 
factory of the American-owned Teledyne Labtech. Teledyne and their 
subsidiaries are the largest exporters of weapons from Britain to 
Israel, with a decades-long complicity in Israeli crimes committed with 
their products.

*In a trial starting on Tuesday May 9th and set to last for two weeks, 
support has been called for each day starting at 9:30am, at Caernarfon 
Crown Court, Llanberis Road. Caernarfon. Gwynedd. LL55 2DF*

*TELEDYNE 4*
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