Anti-Militarist Network

Target Brimar Campaign Website

Brimar is a Greater Manchester based company that manufactures a range of screens and viewing equipment, including specialist cathode ray tubes. Although Brimar makes some equipment and components for civilian uses, it has come to mainly specialise in military devices.

Brimar’s devices are found in fighter planes, attack helicopters, tanks, armoured missile launchers.

We are calling for a national demonstration to launch the Target Brimar campaign. This will be on Saturday 17th October at noon.

We are a group of citizens from Manchester and Greater Manchester. We believe that Brimar’s products have been, and may still be, used to commit war crimes in various conflicts in the Middlle East and elsewhere.

In tanks and other armoured vehicles, Brimar’s screen and display equipment allow the occupants to see what’s going on outside and to aim weaponry at targets. In aircraft, components made by Brimar are used in ‘head-up’, ‘head-down’ and helmet-mounted displays, used to aim and fire weapons.

With products in a wide range of military machinery it is no surprise that Brimar’s devices have been in use in many wars and conflicts across the globe.

Israeli Apache helicopter pilots in Gaza, US marines in tanks in Fallujah, British Apache pilots in Afghanistan, and US fighter pilots over Iraq all aim and fire their deadly weaponry with display equipment made at Brimar’s factory in Chadderton.

We are a group of citizens from Manchester and Greater Manchester. We believe that Brimar’s products have been, and may still be, used to commit war crimes in various conflicts in the Middlle East and elsewhere.

We are preparing and organising a concerted campaign against Brimar. We want Brimar to cease producing parts for military use and to revert to the peaceful purposes for which many of the company’s products have been made.

We are calling for a national demonstration to launch the Target Brimar campaign. This will be on Saturday 17th October at noon. This demonstration is also in solidarity with the EDO Decommissioners, whose trial begins on the 26th October.

The meeting point is the grassy traffic island by the Gardener’s Arms pub, at the junction of the B6393 (Lightbowne Rd) and the A6104 (Victoria Avenue East).

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[The traffic island is the grassy area to the right of the 'A' at the end of Moston Lane].

Check back for more details and for updates to to our website… www.targetbrimar.org.uk

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