dEATH FAIR AT WILLS MEMORIAL TODAY

bristol | corporations | press release Wednesday October 29, 2008 10:14 by Bristol Rising Tide

Today, Bristol University Students have been invited to a Engineering and IT Careers Fair. However, a brief look at the lists of companies and what they do to make their money, makes it seems like a list of who's who of environmentally and socially destructive companies.

Local people, including Bristol Rising Tide will be offering a alternative point of view between 1300 and 1500 outside Wills Memorial Hall (top of park street)

BRISTOL RISING TIDE: PRESS RELEASE

"Dead" End Careers Fair

Today, Bristol University Students have been invited to a Engineering and IT Careers Fair. However, a brief look at the lists of companies and what they do to make their money, makes it seems like a list of who's who of environmentally and socially destructive companies.

The reality of what these companies do will be told to by more appropriate careers advisors:Pestilence, War, Famine and Death! Who will be there will their scythes and death masks.They will be also offered an alternative careers advice guide to the one provided by Bristol University, asking them to examine there consciousnesses before they make there career decisions.

One of the exhibitors is E-ON, the power company recently targeted by this years "Camp for Climate Action", whose careers recruitment has already be disrupted by students in Manchester. We understand that two separate groups of students will be looking to make their voices heard outside the fair.

Otherwise the deathly careers advisors will as well as be focusing on E-ON, will also be highlighting the ethics, or otherwise of British Aerospace, The Atomic Weapons Establishment and Bechtel.

Ms Pestilence said:

"Its great for us Horsemen (and women!) that British Universities seek to promote careers with such high mortality rates attached to them"

Mr Hughes of Bristol Rising Tide said:

"While you can hardly blame deeply indebted students from wanting to get straight on the careers ladder, we thought it would be good if we at least gave them some food for thought. Companies like e-on and BaE are not simply part of a sustainable future"

Call 07747720415 for interviews/ further details

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ENDS

NOTES:

Among the recruiters:

AWE (Atomic Weapons Establishment) They make bigger and better nuclear weapons. www.tridentploughshares.org

BAE SYSTEMS Like many arms manufacturers, BAE has received criticism from various human rights and anti-arms trade organisations due to the human rights records of governments to which it has sold equipment. These include Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, Zimbabwe, and Israel. They like a bribe or two. www.caat.org.uk

BALFOUR BEATTY Dam and Road Builders. They also like a bribe.

http://archive.corporatewatch.org/magazine/issue10/cw10....html and www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/oct/07/balfourbeatty.egypt

BECHTEL Closely linked to the Bush administration, Bechtel has thus-far received several billion dollars worth of contracts - most recently garnering a $1.8bn contract to repair Iraq's infrastructure. www.ethicalcorp.com/content.asp?ContentID=667

E.ON UK Proponents of Coal-Fired and Nuclear Power Stations, target of this years Climate Camp. Purveyors of false solutions to climate change. See: www.climatecamp.org.uk

LAND & MARINE Builders of the socially and environmentally destructive LNG pipeline through South Wales. www.fightthepipe.co.uk

ROLLS-ROYCE Biggest European Manufacturer of military engines in Europe www.caat.org.uk