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Lancaster Library has an event on 7th August called “Roving Robots with BAE systems”. Included in the description is that children will be "learning about cyber security and the crucial role it plays in protecting BAE systems". According to BAE it’s suitable for 7 to 11 year olds.
BAE systems (formerly known as British Aerospace) has a complex in Salmesbury (between Blackburn & Preston) where it manufactures the rear fuselage for Lockheed Martin’s F35 fighter plane, used by Israel to drop 2,000lb bombs on hospitals, schools, universities and homes in Gaza. BAE is the largest arms manufacturer in the UK and has a history of both selling arms to countries with appalling human rights records and securing deals through flagrant bribery such as a £5 billion contract with South Africa for air planes it neither needed or could afford. We are requesting the library to cancel the event on the basis that it’s not appropriate for an arms manufacturer to be influencing our children and that BAE systems is not a fit partner for one of our public libraries to collaborate with. How can you get involved?
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The emails to contact to complain are:
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TEMPLATE EMAIL (please feel free to adapt as you feel appropriate)
Dear Lancaster Library,
As a local to Lancaster I was shocked to see a family workshop advertised by the military defence organisation BAE. I do not feel it is appropriate for a military organisation to be running a workshop with young people. The online listing also does not detail that the event is run by a military organisation. I feel this is misleading to the public.
As you may be aware there is an ongoing genocide of Palestinian people taking place in Gaza, being perpetrated by the Israeli armed forces: more than 30,000 people have been killed and many more injured.
BAE Systems supplies components and the rear fuselage for the F35 aircraft currently being used by Israel to carry out bombing raids in Gaza. BAE Systems has also been a major supplier into other wars, not least the war in Yemen. This latter conflict has seen over 277,000 deaths from famine, disease and the destruction of housing, schools and hospitals, much of which caused by the weapons produced by this company.
I therefore do not think it appropriate that a company connected to such catastrophe should be given permission to host events in a public library. Libraries should be a place for peaceful reading and quiet learning, not death and destruction.
I urge you to reconsider hosting the BAE event
[email protected]
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TEMPLATE EMAIL (please feel free to adapt as you feel appropriate)
Dear Lancaster Library,
As a local to Lancaster I was shocked to see a family workshop advertised by the military defence organisation BAE. I do not feel it is appropriate for a military organisation to be running a workshop with young people. The online listing also does not detail that the event is run by a military organisation. I feel this is misleading to the public.
As you may be aware there is an ongoing genocide of Palestinian people taking place in Gaza, being perpetrated by the Israeli armed forces: more than 30,000 people have been killed and many more injured.
BAE Systems supplies components and the rear fuselage for the F35 aircraft currently being used by Israel to carry out bombing raids in Gaza. BAE Systems has also been a major supplier into other wars, not least the war in Yemen. This latter conflict has seen over 277,000 deaths from famine, disease and the destruction of housing, schools and hospitals, much of which caused by the weapons produced by this company.
I therefore do not think it appropriate that a company connected to such catastrophe should be given permission to host events in a public library. Libraries should be a place for peaceful reading and quiet learning, not death and destruction.
I urge you to reconsider hosting the BAE event
