Veterans for Peace - Spokane Chapter #35

This company needs to change or die.

Boeing has proven time and again that it can't be trusted with critical projects, yet they’re deeply involved in maintaining the U.S. Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missiles and building key components for nuclear weapons. Let's not forget that Boeing’s track record in recent years is riddled with failures, from fatal commercial plane crashes to delays and design flaws that have shattered public trust.

With over $7 billion in nuclear weapons contracts and a history of involvement in the Minuteman III program, Boeing is profiting from a dangerous game. This is a company that can’t even secure the renewal for the "Doomsday" plane contract, yet is trusted to manage life-and-death technology. Boeing's leadership, with Mike Calhoun earning a staggering $32.8 million while overseeing such a messy record, shows where their priorities lie. It’s time to ask: why are we entrusting a company with this much failure behind it to handle the deadliest weapons on Earth? Enough is enough!

Let's stop participating in the destruction of Our Humanity.

General Assembly General Debate

Call Out U.S. officials who vote for weapons and bombs to be sent to Zionist Apartheid Israel because they are Complicit In Genocide, an Internationally Recognized Crime Against Humanity.

The pro-Israel lobby is weaponizing US politics by attempting to pass the Antisemitism Awareness Act (S.4127), which falsely characterizes criticism of Israel as antisemitism!

Email your Senator to oppose the censorship bill!
https://www.codepink.org/stops4127

Gotta Love Code Pink!

Join our September community call!

We will gather to share updates from the past month of organizing, hear what our local chapter's are up to, and preview the next month of action.

🗓️ Sept 30 @ 6:30PM ET

RSVP:
https://www.codepink.org/communitycall09

Zionist Apartheid Israel, contrary to those members of its peaceful Jewish population, has refused to be a caring, concerned, cooperative, nor compassionate society. Therefore it has become a pariah state of rogue behavior, unbefitting a civil part of our Precious and Sacred Humanity. With aggressive hubris and refusal to STAND DOWN its rogue IDF the existing government must decompose and disappear for peace to return to Palestine and the entire region. It is contrary to International Laws, treaties, and conventions to provide aide, other than agricultural, to Israel due to its genocidal campaign. The U.S. elected officials are now identifiable as Complicit In Genocide and subject to fines, imprisonment, or the sentence of death for this Crime Against Humanity.

Follow the link below for a social media toolkit with everything you need to join the social media storm ahead of the UNGA high level debate.

The BDS movement are calling on supporters to share our content on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram etc. If possible, tag members of your government in posts.

Now is the time to pressure your government to respect its obligations under int'l law and !

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"Gaza Encampments Take On the Merchants of Death

The United States has a long and horrific record of providing weapons to repressive regimes that use them to kill their own people or attack their neighbors. Martin Luther King called the U.S. government “the greatest purveyor of violence in the world,” and that has not changed since he said it in 1967, a year to the day before his assassination."

Arsenal of Genocide: The American Weapons Destroying Gaza | Common Dreams While decades of even deadlier U.S. war-making in the greater Middle East failed to provoke a sustained mass protest movement, the genocide in Gaza has opened the eyes of many thousands of young people to the need to rise up against the U.S. war machine.

TIME TIME Step Aside - Don't Subscribe To Genocide!

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"Modern US war-waging often occurs through the use of proxy states and funding the troops of another country as long as they act in US interests. They’ll call it military strategy, but at the very root of it, you’ll find a dark feeling of indifference towards the citizens of other nations. Our government could not care less what happens to innocent people in Japan, South Korea, or the Philippines– as long as US global hegemony is preserved, they will let them die."

The US is Preparing for an Unwinnable War Against China CODEPINK is a feminist grassroots organization working to end U.S. wars and militarism, support peace and human rights initiatives, and redirect our tax dollars into healthcare, education, green jobs and other life-affirming programs.

Gratitude for VFP leadership with wisdom and compassion.

Open Letter from Veterans For Peace to Vice President Kamala Harris It is time to usher in a New Era of Peace, International Cooperation and Human Rights for All People. Let it begin with Gaza.

Consistent and Persistent! Reliable News from Wild Idaho Rising Tide

The Wednesday, July 10, 2024, Climate Justice Forum radio program, produced by regional, climate activists collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT), features freelance writer Justin Mikulka and Railroad Workers United representative Mark Burrows, discussing further railroad regulations and practices to protect community and crew safety from flammable oil and hazardous materials trains. We also share news, music, and reflections on upcoming north Idaho demonstrations opposing Northwest oil trains and infrastructure, a New York passenger train to Canada cancelled by heated rail concerns, the rapidly melting Juneau ice field in Alaska, and British Columbia court sentencing of a First Nation chief opposing gas pipeline construction through indigenous territory. Broadcast for twelve years on progressive, volunteer, community station KRFP Radio Free Moscow, every Wednesday between 1:30 and 3 pm Pacific time, on-air at 90.3 FM and online, the show describes continent-wide, grassroots, frontline resistance to fossil fuels projects, the root causes of climate change, thanks to generous, anonymous listeners who adopted program host Helen Yost as their KRFP DJ. ~Helen

KRFP Radio Free Moscow
http://radiofreemoscow.org

Oil Train, November 4, 2013 David Rovics
https://davidrovics.bandcamp.com/track/oil-train

Stop Oil Trains 2024, July 9, 2024 Wild Idaho Rising Tide
https://wildidahorisingtide.org/2024/07/09/stop-oil-trains-2024

Amtrak’s Adirondack Line Won’t Serve the North Country, Montréal ‘Until Further Notice’, June 26, 2023 Seven Days Vermont
https://m.sevendaysvt.com/guides/amtraks-adirondack-line-wont-serve-the-north-country-montreal-until-further-notice-38535267

Researchers Warn of Imminent ‘Death Spiral’ for Rapidly Melting Alaska Ice Field, July 2, 2024 Common Dreams
https://www.commondreams.org/news/juneau-icefield

Dinï ze’ Dtsa’hyl Decision, July 6, 2024 Yintah Access
https://www.yintahaccess.com/news/2024/7/4/dtsahyldecision

Oil Trains: Are Profits Worth Our Risk?, March 10, 2021 Adlai Stevenson Center on Democracy
https://youtu.be/E5uKl8JCh5w

Paying ATTENTION for correction of past harms and prevention of future harms.

Be sure to attend this interfaith vigil this Sunday July 14 either in person or via livestream to mark the anniversary of the Trinity Test detonation.

Speakers include:

-Dr. Ira Helfand: BftB Co-Founder, Co-Founder of Physicians for Social Responsibility and member of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons
-Eddie Laiche: BftB member & Co-Founder of Students for Nuclear Disarmament
-Archbishop John C. Wester, Archbishop of Santa Fe
-Jay Coghlan: Nuclear Watch New Mexico
-Tina Cordova: Tularosa Basin Downwinders Consortium
-Don Hancock: Southwest Research and Information Center/Nuclear Waste Safety
-Dr. Myrriah Gomez, associate professor in UNM Honors College, where she teaches classes related to Chicanx Studies and Environmental Justice. Myrriah’s recently published book, author of Nuclear Nuevo México: Colonialism and the Effects of the Nuclear Industrial Complex on Nuevomexicanos

Pre-register and find the livestream link at https://form.jotform.com/241400030658141

Gratitude for the Chinese for pulling 800,000 of our fellow human beings completely out from abject poverty. The contributions of these people are much needed in our evolving world of Care, Concern, Cooperation, and Compassion.

Join for a Discussion: Is China Really an "Imperialist" Country?
3 PM AEST; 10:30 AM IST, on July 13
register through the QR code or email: [email protected]

Expressing Great Heart and Gratitude for this lifetime to share with others whom "I see" this custodianship of Our Humanity and our Sacred Earth.

In case you missed our e-blast 📲 😃

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"Learn more about the work of the Tularosa Basin Downwinders Consortium and their allies to fight for recognition and compensation in the film: “First We Bombed New Mexico,” being screened in Albuquerque, New Mexico on 16 July. A recent bill to extend and expand coverage of the US compensation scheme is still being ignored by Congress. U.S. citizens should urge their elected representatives to pass the bill that extends and expands the Radiation Compensation Exposure Act."

Surviving Nuclear Testing Take a moment to listen to the real experts on nuclear testing: survivors. ICAN dives into their stories with this storytelling page that shows you what it was like to witness the tests, live through horrific health impacts and to spend decades fighting for recognition and justice.

U.S. Main Obstacle to Peace in Palestine The U.S. government seems determined to share Israel’s self-inflicted isolation from voices calling for peace from all over the world.