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00:23 We've blocked the entrance to a factory in Glasgow today.
00:28 Well, it's a protest against BAE Systems,
00:33 who produce arms and arms transport systems,
00:39 and they collaborate with Israel Defence Companies.
00:43 And we are Glasgow citizens who are concerned about what's going on in Palestine,
00:52 the occupation of Palestine and the genocide in Palestine.
00:55 And we're saying to BAE bosses, business is not as usual today,
01:01 because people are being killed in their thousands,
01:05 and things that you're doing or contributing,
01:08 things that you're making here are contributing to what's going on in Palestine.
01:13 We're basically here to say enough is enough.
01:17 We arrived here around 5.30.
01:19 There will be some other actions happening in the UK,
01:22 because BAE Systems has factories everywhere in the UK.
01:26 The aim is to disrupt business as usual.
01:29 That is the aim, to disrupt the day at BAE.
01:32 To give them a message that we're not happy with what they're producing here
01:37 and who they're collaborating with.
01:39 We are not here to blame workers.
01:43 We are here to say to managers, you should stop producing what you're producing.
01:48 You should stop collaborating with Israeli defence companies.
01:52 Your engineers, your workers, their skills could be used for peaceful purposes
01:58 rather than for producing killing machines.
02:01 I think we're very happy with what we've done today, yes.
02:04 BAE, they make some of the parts for the fighter jets that are being used in Israel.
02:10 The Palestinian trade unions over in Gaza and the rest of Palestine,
02:15 they put out this big call out for solidarity for folks all over the world.
02:22 So basically asking to disrupt the weapons that are being made
02:31 and then supplied to Israel that are then being used to kill their civilians.
02:35 So basically we came out here and we've shut down the factory for the day.
02:41 This is alongside actions all over the UK.
02:44 I think it's four places that's currently being occupied, including here.
02:48 Any time that we can have this shut down, any bullet that isn't being made,
02:52 that's somebody's life, you know.
02:54 Any part that isn't being supplied for these fighter jets, that's somebody's life maybe, you know.
02:59 This call out by the trade unions in Palestine, they were calling out two trade unions
03:05 and a lot of the guys that's in there, they're UNITE.
03:08 I'm a UNITE member myself and UNITE has condemned the violence in Palestine
03:16 and it's my hope that the workers in there will, because we've been talking to many of them,
03:24 it's my hope that many of them will try and organise to potentially make sure
03:30 that these weapons aren't ending up being sold and used for genocide.
03:33 A lot of folks I think are probably looking at, myself included, will see all this violence and stuff
03:39 that's happening over there online and you'll see all the pictures on the news and all this
03:44 and it's like, it makes you feel very powerless.
03:47 When you actually go out as one person, when you go out to something like this,
03:52 one person can make a lot of difference.
03:54 Throughout the country we've had other plants shut down and I think that sends a very strong message.
03:59 But more importantly, I think that causes material disruption.
04:04 Any disruption is potentially making things a wee bit harder for the Israeli military to harm people.
04:13 Through lots of wee disruptions, that's how you prevent this kind of warfare happening,
04:18 that's how you prevent the UK from being complicit in it, is lots of wee things and lots of shutdowns.
04:25 So I think today was very successful.
04:27 This sort of thing will continue to happen until the UK government,
04:31 until the Scottish government condemns the genocide that Israel's doing.
04:37 If I had a message for BAE, it would be stop manufacturing weapons
04:42 and manufacture something that's actually productive to the people of the country that you live in.
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