First on the Wednesday a week before the G20, a musical protest by East London Against the Arms Fair (ELAAF)appealing directly to the state-owned Abu Dhabi Exhibition Company, owners of the ExCel Centre, to stop hosting the London Arms Fair in 2009.

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Buddhist chanting was part of the protest

some of those gathered opposite the embassy

Bill from the Garden Community Cafe in Docklands handing in the petition
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Then on the Monday before the G20, Campaign Against the Arms Trade leafletted outside the offices of the Department for Trade & Industry in London. Why? - because arms dealers were inside meeting with Government officials