Europe serves as a staging ground for military interventions worldwide. The framework can differ: NATO, EU, US coalition of the willing, UN. The target as well: Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon, .... But the departure points not: military bases, airports and harbours in Europe. Europe hosts a large military intervention machinery.
Economic globalisation also has its military correlary. New York Times’ columnist Thomas Friedman said: “The hidden hand of the market will never work without a hidden fist. McDonald’s cannot flourish without McDonnell Douglas, the builder of the F-15. And the hidden fist that keeps the world safe for Silicon Valley ‘s technologies is called the United States Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps.” And this fist is not solely a US phenomenon as Europe builds its own intervention capacity through the EU or forms a partner with the US in NATO.

This website shares the common knowledge of activists on the military intervention frameworks in Europe and is meant to improve co-operation between action groups across the borders. Aim is to exchange information on military deployments, installations, ... and to plan non-violent direct action against the wars coming out of Europe.
A good opportunity for such non-violent direct action is provided by the call for an European day of action against military infrastructure on 14-15 November 2008.

This website is never finished but is the result of a collaborative effort! Do you want to contribute to this website? Contact international[a t]bombspotting[d o t]org for a password and login-instructions for the wiki.

This website comes out of a project on military globalisation and nonviolent resistance in Europe from Bombspotting and War Resisters International. It took place in Brussels on 21-24 March 2008 and consisted in combining a practical experience in international co-operation with the NATO Game Over-action, followed by a 2-day conference to reflect on military globalisation and how to improve nonviolent resistance. Aim of this project is to improve co-operation between anti-militarist action groups. This project was supported as Youth in Action-project Linking Youth for Peace by the EU.
Out of this conference followed several international projects like the call for an European day of action against military infrastructure on 14-15 November 2008, an E-mail-list and the planning for actions against the NATO 60th anniversary summit in Strasbourg/Kehl in April 2009. A next opportunity for meeting and co-ordination is the European peace forum, during the ESF in Malmö on 17- 21 September 2008.