militarism

Will Militarism Of Police Continue?

July 25, 2016 Julia Edwards, www.reuters.com Educate! militarism, Police

BY Julia Edwards for Reuters - The White House will revisit a 2015 ban on police forces getting riot gear, armored vehicles and other military-grade equipment from the U.S. armed forces, two police organization directors told Reuters on Thursday. Shortly after the recent shooting deaths of police officers, President Barack Obama agreed to review each banned item, the two law enforcement leaders said. That could result in changes to the ban imposed in May 2015 on the transfer of some equipment from the military to police...

The People’s Caravan From Cleveland RNC To Philadelphia DNC

July 20, 2016 Staff, www.ggjalliance.org Resist! Democratic Convention, Extraction, indigenous, militarism, Misogny, Racism, Republican Convention

By Staff for the Grassroots Global Justice Alliance. There are three major defining factors of this moment: white rage and misogyny escalated by the presidential elections; extractive dig-burn-dump economies promoted by politicians; and rising militarism at home & abroad applauded by the electorate. We believe that no matter who becomes the next US president, these growing norms will have serious long-term implications for Black, Latin@, Arab and Muslim peoples, Indigenous Peoples, Asian & Pacific Islander, working class White folks, women and trans people... long after the next president is elected. We are building a diverse and interconnected movement that has the roots we need to weather the storms our communities face and change the systems that cause us harm. This July 2016, Grassroots Global Justice Alliance (GGJ) is organizing a People's Caravan from Cleveland to Philadelphia of 40-50 frontline community leaders from the US and Honduras.

Time To Rethink NATO

July 10, 2016 Medea Benjamin and Alice Slater, ww.thehill.com Educate! militarism, NATO, Wars and Militarism

By Medea Benjamin and Alice Slater for the Hill. Donald Trump angered the D.C. establishment when he said that NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Alliance, may be obsolete and the U.S. should reassess its spending on the alliance. Hillary Clinton has used Trump’s comments as another example that he is a dangerous, loose cannon. But Trump has brought up an issue worth exploring and this month, when NATO will hold its Annual Summit in Warsaw, Poland on July 8-9, is an excellent opportunity to do so. Indeed, activists are planning to show up on in Warsaw during the Summit and in New York City there will be a demonstration on July 9 in Times Square. The time has come to spread the word about the dangerous mischief NATO is causing on Russia’s border. With the recent breakup of the old paradigm after the UK just left the European Union, there may be a new opening for change. It has been reported that Germany and France have been talking about ending the sanctions on Russia imposed after the Ukraine events and are now recommending a less aggressive posture for NATO. America too, could do its share to make good on the UN promise to “end the scourge of war” by ratcheting down the hostilities towards Russia and working for the abolition of NATO. You don’t have to be a Donald Trump supporter to recognize that it is time to rethink NATO.

US Funding OF Honduran Security Forces, Blood On Our Hands

July 10, 2016 John James Conyers, Jr., Keith Ellison, Hank Johnson, Marcy Kaptur, Jan Schakowsky and Jose E Serrano, www.theguardian.com Resist! Berta Caceres, Honduras, militarism

By John James Conyers, Jr., Keith Ellison, Hank Johnson, Marcy Kaptur, Jan Schakowsky and Jose E Serrano for the Guardian. Until the Honduran government protects human rights and holds its security forces responsible for their crimes, the US should not be working with its police and military. As long as the United States funds Honduran security forces without demanding justice for those threatened, tortured and killed, the US has blood on its hands. It’s time to suspend all police and military aid to Honduras. Enough is enough – it’s past time to suspend the aid and instruct the US Treasury department to vote no on all loans from multilateral development banks to security forces in Honduras. The Berta Cáceres Human Rights in Honduras Act (HR 5474) would suspend those funds – and prohibit international loans providing for security assistance – from being dispersed unless Honduras makes serious inroads to addressing blatant human rights violations by police and military forces.

Newsletter: Memorial Day Lesson – End War

May 29, 2016 Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, www.PopularResistance.org Newsletter Asia Pivot, militarism, NATO, Regime Change, War crimes, Wars and Militarism

By Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese for Popular Resistance. Memorial Day has become a holiday that celebrates war and treats soldiers as heroes, rather than respecting its roots as a day to mourn the personal costs of war. Instead of being a time of reflection on the truth about wars, the US Empire's war culture is on full display over the Memorial Day weekend perpetuating the myths that being in the military is both patriotic and heroic, when in truth many US wars are unnecessary and violate international law. It is up to us to examine the hypocrisy of US foreign policy and work toward ending war as a tool of foreign policy. Instead of repeating the mantra that war is good or patriotic, let's have an honest discussion about the reasons behind wars and the damage that wars wreak in numerous ways. It is time for all of us to build a people's movement for a world without war.

Thousands Protest As Japanese Gov Ushers In New Age Of Militarism

March 31, 2016 Lauren McCauley, www.commondreams.org Resist! Japan, militarism, Protests

By Lauren McCauley for Common Dreams - Thousands of anti-war protesters rallied outside the parliament building in Tokyo on Tuesday, railing against the Japanese government's new so-called security law which marks a historic departure from the country's decades-long pacifism. The controversial "war legislation," a package of bills that passed parliament in September and took effect on Tuesday, reinterprets Article 9 of the country's Constitution, which renounced war as a means to settle international disputes following World War II.

Recovering From Militarism

March 30, 2016 Robert Koehler, www.huffingtonpost.com Educate! militarism, United States

By Robert Koehler for The Huffington Post - We talk about “the Pentagon” as though it were a rational entity, hierarchically in control of what it does, dispensable as needed to trouble spots around the world: a tool of America’s commander in chief and, therefore, of the American people. The reality, undiscussed on the evening news or the presidential debates, is something a little different. The American military is an unceasing hemorrhage of cash and aggression, committed — perhaps only at the unconscious level — to nothing more than its own perpetuation, which is to say, endless war.

Activist Facing Felonies For Breaking Northrup Grumman Windows

February 10, 2016 Fran Quigley, www.PopularResistance.org Resist! Courts, militarism, Political Prisoner, Wars and Militarism

By Fran Quigley for Popular Resistance. Jessica Reznicek, 34, an Iowa peace activist, was arraigned Monday and charged with two felonies for breaking three windows with a sledgehammer at the Northrup Grumman facility outside the Omaha Nebraska Strategic Air Command at Offut Air Force base. Writing from her jail cell, Reznicek, who has lived and worked at the Des Moines Catholic Worker for years, said she broke the windows as an act of conscience “in an effort to expose the details of the defense contracts currently held by Northrup Grumman with U.S. Strategic Air Command (STRATCOM) at Offutt Air Force Base. Over the years, billions of taxpayer dollars are pouring into the hands of these money-hungry, bomb-building, and computer geek space war criminals.” Jessica is facing up to 20 years. Her trial is schedule for May 24th. She is currently incarcerated, refusing to pay bond.

Dispossessed In The Name Of ‘Security’

January 31, 2016 Robert J. Burrowes, www.PopularResistance.org Educate! Climate Change, Corporatism, militarism

By Robert J. Burrowes for Popular Resistance. 'The Secure and the Dispossessed: How the Military and Corporations are Shaping a Climate-Changed World' brings together a thoughtful collection of scholars, journalists and activists to explain the pre-eminence of the military and corporations in shaping the global response to the climate catastrophe as an 'opportunity'. The book examines how for the security/military-industrial complex 'climate change is just the latest in a long line of threats constructed in such a way as to consolidate its grip on power and public finance.' For corporations, the risk posed by climate change is an opportunity for profit as they promise us 'food security', 'water security', 'energy security' … even if it is at the expense of equity and justice and has 'disastrous implications for the security of human lives and dignity'. For the security industry, for example, it is an opportunity to offer governments an endless supply of resilience and disaster-related services that have little to do with human security, if your concern is ordinary people.

Blocking The US Marines Gate With 1400 Blocks

January 31, 2016 Staff www.henokononviolentaction.blogspot.com Resist! Japan, militarism, Okinawa

By Henoko Nonviolet Action. How amazingly a Nonviolent struggle in Henoko has been a success to close 2 days a week. People started to pile the concrete blocks in front of the gate for stopping the construction vehicles. How amazingly a Nonviolent struggle in Henoko has been a success to close 2 days a week. People started to pile the concrete blocks in front of the gate for stopping the construction vehicles. Henoko Block Protest 2 A friend from US arrived yesterday to join the Henoko sit-in. We appreciate people from outside of Japan come and join this struggle. We hope that more & more foreign friends come and join us. How amazingly a Nonviolent struggle in Henoko has been a success to close 2 days a week. People started to pile the concrete blocks in front of the gate for stopping the construction vehicles. Henoko Block Protest 2 A friend from US arrived yesterday to join the Henoko sit-in. We appreciate people from outside of Japan come and join this struggle. We hope that more & more foreign friends come and join us. Henoko Block Protest 3 Finally, Henoko is becoming an artistic. We started to paint on concrete blocks. Please come & paint a block for peace.

Movement Reclaims MLK Legacy

January 19, 2016 Kevin Zeese, www.PopularResistance.org Resist! #BlackLivesMatter, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Inequality, militarism, MLK, Poverty, Racism

By Kevin Zeese for Popular Resistance. This Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day weekend there was a call by #BlackLivesMatter to #ReclaimMLK. Events were held all over the country responding to the call and the radical Martin Luther King, jr was brought to people's hearts; not only the King who expressed his dream on racism, but the King who questioned the unfairness in the US capitalist economy and the long history of a foreign policy dominated by militarism. At the end of his life not only was he speaking clearly on these issues but he was organizing around poverty, planning a Poor People's March to Washington, DC. This march continued after his death and Resurrection City, an earlier occupation of the city, that focused on poverty and economic issues. The election year of 2016 is an opportunity to push forward a Black Agenda, not by supporting any particular candidate but by pushing all candidates. We must push to make up for the disinvestment and racially unfair treatment of black communities.

Beyond Capitalism: A Revolution Of Values

January 17, 2016 Nancy Price, www.thealliancefordemocracy.org Create! Eisenhower, Imperialism, Martin Luther King Jr, militarism, MLK, Poverty, Racism

By Nancy Price, for the Alliance for Democracy. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s most revolutionary 1967 speech “Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence” marked his movement, from civil rights to a critique of capitalism, a year before he died. Looking “beyond Vietnam,” King questioned a US policy of interventions in foreign countries to defeat not only “Communist tyranny,” but any opposition to the corporate-capitalist system of imperialism and oppression that protects corporate interests and the wealth and power of the ruling classes. “When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people,” he said, “the giant triplets of racism, extreme materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered.”

Newsletter: Why Protests Will Continue To Grow

January 16, 2016 Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, www.popularresistance.org Newsletter #BlackLivesMatter, #FightFor15, Black Lives Matter (BLM), China, Climate Change, COP21, Corporatism, Democracy, Economic inequality, Empire, Environment, FERC, Finance and the Economy, Guantanamo, Guantanamo Bay, Human Rights, Iraq, Jobs, militarism, Necessity defense, oligarchy, Poverty, Russia, Solar Energy, Stratfor, Syria, TPP, Trade, Wealth Ineqaulity

By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers for Popular Resistance. This week the reason that there are a growing protest movement and growing disenchantment with government was put on display. The divergence between government and reality was thrust in our faces. The entire government came together, Members of Congress, the Cabinet, military leaders, the Supreme Court, Vice President and President (minus the 'selected survivor' in case the Capitol was attacked, the head of Homeland Security) to hear the State of the Union. The choreographed self-praise of people who will spend $5 billion this year of mostly big business money to get re-elected was evident from the moment the door was opened. Hugs and kisses, backslapping all around, required applause as the President approached the podium, more staged applause when he was introduced and then, as if they were trained, dozens of standing ovations on cue – 89 times in a 58-minute speech the President was applauded.

Obama’s Siren Song, Jill Stein And Medea Benjamin

January 16, 2016 Staff, www.acronymtv.com Resistance Report Bernie Sanders, Climate Change, Finance and the Economy, Jill Stein, militarism, Obama, SOTU

By Staff of Acronym TV - This week on Acronym TV: The YES MEN strike again!, Medea Benjamin of Code Pink on Obama’s foreign policy legacy, Green Party Presidential Candidate Jill Stein on the #AfterBern and the Obama #SOTU and Dennis breaks down Obama’s Siren song

15 Arrested At ‘Real State Of The Union’

January 14, 2016 National Campaign for Nonviolent Resistance, Resist! Environment, Inequality, militarism, Racism, SOTU

By National Campaign for Nonviolent Resistance. President Obama failed to address the issues raised in the petition. For example, the NCNR message to the president included this: “A real State of the Union would be a frank speech which would condemn our country’s addiction to economic inequality, racial injustice, warmongering and the destruction of our planet. After being honest about our failures, you would then urge our elected officials to go in a new direction, based on a democratic ideal for we the people, and not for we the wealthy. Tell them to listen to the people, and not the corporations. You could inform them that you will utilize diplomacy and other peaceful means. You could tell them to listen to the scientific community and not the fossil fuel industry.” In an authentic democracy citizens have a right to access their elected officials. A representative government should produce a budget that would benefit all and not a tiny minority of wealthy individuals and powerful corporations, and that is hurtful to the poor. But, this is not the case.

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