From War Resisters International:
Friday, 19th of September was the day of action at EPA. The plan was to do an action together as EPA, people were welcome to join small groups or to join the general action organised by EPA. The day before saw trainings for preparation for action and also a lot of work preparing banners for the action.
The company, Aimpoint - or the more suitable "Shamepoint" - manufactures red dots sight used by armies around the world, including the US army in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
Most of the people who took part in the action travelled together from the EPA venue to the offices of Aimpoint where the bus driver was so kind to let us all in without having to pay for the bus ticket - what a good way to encourage disarmament actions!- Our bus was followed along all the route by the Swedish police, it felt like having an official escort for our action. A special feature and new to international participants was the presence of Dialogue Police and Dialogue Demonstrator who are responsible for communicating what is happening with the other side.
Once we arrived at Aimpoint, a small group, formed of members from Switzerland Without an Army, Vredesactie and Ofog climbed the fence and got inside the facilities of Aimpoint. The group was holding a banner that read “war starts in Europe let's stop it from here! Aimpoint kills”. While the group was inside Aimpoint's premises, a group of around 100 demonstrators made noise to expose the company as a war profiteer, a group from the clown army kept us all in a positive friendly action attitude. After some minutes the group that made it inside was arrested and taken in police vans to the police station. As part of the action we had a 1 minute long scream, for all to take out our frustrations and non-acceptance of what the company is involved in. Following the scream around 50 of the demonstrators did a die in representing the victims from the wars Aimpoint equipment is used in. One member of the clown army was detained when she climbed the fence, but later was released and not taken to the police station.
The action finished with a big sheer, which was a good end to a positive and friendly action against a Swedish war profiteer. Again we all jumped on a bus, this time even with the help of the police to make sure that the bus will stop for us.
The group of arrestees were release a few hours later.