direct to your inboxProtesters from two direct action groups have blocked the entrance to an Oldham factory whose owner has won a new weapon technology contract with the British Army.Activists from Palestine Action and Extinction Rebellion also threw red paint at the walls of the Israeli-owned Elbit Ferranti factory, and displayed banners condemning what they called ‘systematic misjustice’.The protest at the plant, on Greenacres Road, comes weeks after the Ministry of Defence confirmed that Elbit had won a contract for new ‘sensor to shoot’ systems.The British Army has invested £102 million in the high-end surveillance system, which allows frontline soldiers to detect and engage enemy targets in seconds.In the early-morning raid today,.
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