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 [[http://www.bombspotting.org|Bombspotting]] and [[http://wri-irg.org|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 [[http://www.vredesactie.be/article.php?id=506|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 [[http://lists.wri-irg.org/sympa/info/nato-gameover|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 [[http://europeanpeaceaction.org/about-european-peace-action-during-european-social-forum-malmo-sweden-2008|European peace forum]], during the ESF in Malmö on 17- 21 September 2008.