‘I could do no other’
Sylvia Boyes explains why she felt compelled to make a peaceful protest that resulted in her arrest
On 8 September last year I travelled from Yorkshire to London. On arrival at the Excel Centre in east London, location for the Defence and Security Equipment international exhibition (DSEi), I had decorated trees with the Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) postcard: ‘Death, injury, fear and repression are being exported from our doorstep’. I talked to people and joined with others blocking the road into the Excel Centre by the roundabout and ‘eastern gate sixteen’. I took part in a short Quaker vigil and a ‘die in’ on the road. We were expressing our right to peacefully protest.
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