Info on Tear Gas

General information about tear gas: 

Made in the USA: Tear gas on the streets of Cairo:

http://vimeo.com/34526996

A case study for the use of US-made tear gas against nonviolent protesters. 

Tracking Tear Gas: 

http://occupiedmedia.us/2012/02/tracking-tear-gas

 A strong survey of global tear gas connections and profiteering.

No More Tears! comix: 

http://warresisters.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/nomoretears.pdf

A comic on the economics of tear gas. Click here for the version in Arabic. 

International efforts to ban tear gas: 

Tear gas as a chemical weapon: 

http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=378206

This report documents how, in 1969, eighty countries voted to include tear gas agents among chemical weapons banned under the Geneva Protocol. 

Tear gas and the Arms Trade: 

http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/asset/ACT30/120/2011/en/69b2c790-076b-464f-94b1-662765f69110/act301202011en.pdf

This report calls for the inclusion of tear gas in an international Arms Trade Treaty (ATT). 

Tear gas manufacturers in the US: 

Below are the websites for three major manufacturers of tear gas in the US: 

Defense Technology--Casper, WY 

Combined Systems, Inc.--Jamestown, PA 

Nonlethal Technologies--Homer City, PA 

Documentation of tear gas: 

Montage of tear gas used globally made by videographer Tamar Sharabi: 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFxAKfbDp5I

Raja alThaibani's footage of tear gas in Cairo, November, 2011:

http://bambuser.com/v/2341509

http://bambuser.com/v/2341543

Bahraini police caught on camera spraying tear gas into homes:

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vK3mVoQJGJw&feature=player_embedded

Related story on France 24: 

http://observers.france24.com/content/20120605-bahraini-police-caught-camera-spraying-tear-gas-homes-protest-deaths-video

Tear gas used against protesters in Oakland, CA: 

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcXNUif1Zv8

Related story by Keith Olberman: 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bytMNoKNeRA

Tear gas image gallery: 

http://www.flickr.com/photos/80330230@N06/?uploaded=3&magic_cookie=d08e6df3b81c25f4fc62f6268234b454

Calls for solidarity actions in the US against the shipment, sale, and manufacture of US tear gas: 

"Stop the Import of US 'Tear Gas' and all other weapons to Egypt": 

http://www.laborforpalestine.net/2012/02/08/egyptian-workers-call-on-u-s-workers-to-stand-in-solidarity-with-the-egyptian-people/

A February 2012 call from Egyptian labor activists to take against against US shipments of tear gas to Egypt. 

Oakland + Cairo are one fist:

http://warresisters.wordpress.com/2011/12/02/stop-militarization-of-our-communities-in-the-us-and-abroad/

A December 2011 statement from activists in the San Francisco Bay Area in solidarity with Egyptian activists facing US tear gas. 

Statements and research from Palestine solidarity activists: 

http://warresisters.wordpress.com/2012/01/18/more-deaths-and-injuries-from-us-tear-gas-in-palestine-around-the-middle-east-and-in-oakland/

Adalah-NY's research into and documentation of US tear gas sales to Palestine, Egypt, and other countries in the Middle East. 

http://bit.ly/MnkCNH

A policy report from US Campaign to End the Occupation about US military aid to Israel between FY 2000-2009, including  more than 595,000 tear gas canisters and other ‘riot control’ equipment to the Israeli military. 

Related story on the Electronic Intifada:

http://electronicintifada.net/content/us-sent-600000-tear-gas-canisters-israel-says-new-report/11043

Actions: 

Port workers in Suez, Egypt refuse a shipment of 7 tons of tear gas from US company, Combined Systems, Inc. 

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/11/29-3

Anonymous hacks the website of tear gas manufacturer Combined Systems, Inc. on the one year anniversary of the popular uprising in Bahrain: 

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/blogpost/post/anonymous-marks-bahrain-anniversary-by-hacking-us-tear-gas-company/2012/02/14/gIQAilOVDR_blog.html