Thursday 22 August – 5:00 pm
Interactive workshop about mapping out activities and partnerships of companies and institutions – using the example of arms company Damen – as a base for strategic and tactical discussions on how to target them.
The military- and border-industrial complex is present all throughout our society. How can we untangle this complex system and take action against it? In campaigns and actions against companies a good understanding and overview of their activities, presence and relations is vital to develop good strategies and make tactical decisions about how we can best use our time, energy and resources. A lot of the surroundings, including shareholders, research partners, customers/clients and sponsor relations, can be good points of intervention to target a particular company.
In this interactive workshop, we will map out the activities and partnerships of one of the most important Dutch arms companies, shipbuilder Damen, a large player in the international border security market. Together we will see how companies that produce violence and oppression elsewhere are present here, and think about how to take action against these actors.
