A group of activists from Sheffield University disrupted the stalls of arms companies Yorkshire Autumn Graduate Careers Fair on Tuesday 30th October. A banner was unfurled and anti-arms trade leaflets were given out.
The Yorkshire Autumn Graduate Recruitment Fair saw stalls from various companies and recruiters, including the Army, BAE, Proctor & Gamble, the Police, Tesco, Bechtel, the MoD and many more...instead of just opposing all "unethical" employers, a tactical decision was made to focus on the four arms companies present (BAE, GKN, QinetiQ, and Rolls-Royce), and so, shortly after noon on Tuesday 30th Oct, a group of activists entered the fair, unrolled two banners (reading "get your bloody hands off our graduates" and "study war no more") outside the Rolls-Royce stall, and began leafleting (which was banned inside the fair) until security turned up, at which point some activists began negotiating with them, while others snuck away and started leafleting outside the BAE and QinetiQ stalls, which went fairly well. After running out of the initial supply of leaflets, some of us attempted to re-enter the fair, but were thrown out again as soon as we began leafleting, and just leafleted outside until running out. Nothing terribly dramatic, but it put the various death-dealers and profiteers present on the defensive, and maybe it'll have helped to change a few graduates' minds, who knows?
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