'We shut it down': More than 100 ports join anti-arms campaign

• Coordinated demonstrations are planned across more than 100 ports worldwide on Oct. 30.
• Dockworkers, seafarers, students and local communities are being called to participate.
• The campaign opposes weapons shipments and the enforcement of blockades.

Dockworkers, seafarers, students and local communities are expected to take part in coordinated demonstrations across more than 100 ports worldwide on Friday, Oct. 30, as part of a campaign calling for an end to weapons shipments and the infrastructure supporting armed conflicts.

The mobilization was announced by the Global Sumud Flotilla, which urged people to unite under the slogan “No more weapons” and take action against the transportation of arms and the enforcement of blockades.

“War doesn’t run itself. It runs on our hands loading the cargo, and on our silence when blockades are enforced,” the group said in a social media statement.

It argued that governments and corporations benefiting from the arms trade have long relied on the cooperation of workers and public silence, declaring that they would no longer receive either.

The campaign called on participants to take action at ports and in public spaces, stating: “We take the ports. We take the streets. We shut it down.”

The organizers framed the mobilization as an effort to challenge the role of maritime trade and port infrastructure in facilitating weapons shipments, calling for collective action against what they described as the “war machinery.”

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