WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS
Extinctions,
Climate Catastrophe, Militarism, Endless Wars: Making Connections
ARPBS, “Extinction: the Facts,” David
Attenborough, Wednesday, March 31, 7.pm.
“With a million species at risk of extinction,
Sir David Attenborough explores how this crisis of biodiversity has
consequences for us all, threatening food and water security, undermining our
ability to control our climate, and even putting us at greater risk of pandemic
diseases.”
10
Ways that the Climate Crisis and Militarism are Intertwined. - CodePink
https://www.codepink.org ›
10_ways_that_the_climate... By Medea Benjamin. The environmental justice movement that is surging globally is
intentionally intersectional, showing how global warming is connected to US global war machine.
Iraq War and Ending
Endless Wars
18 years later, we
must end endless wars
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Lilly Dragnev, Peace Action 3-18-21
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9:04 AM (21 minutes ago)
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Dear Peace
Action supporter,
On March 20, 2003
at 5:34 a.m. Baghdad time, the United States invaded Iraq. 18 years later,
U.S. troops still remain. It is high time we repeal the 2002 Authorization
for the Use of Military Force (AUMF) and officially end the war started
erroneously 18 years ago.
There have been
nearly 208,000 civilian deaths, with ‘excess deaths’ estimated to be as
high as one million. Over 9 million Iraqis have been displaced from their homes,
and an entire generation of children has grown up not knowing anything
other than the violence, poverty, and trauma of war. 18 years after the
invasion of Iraq, neither Iraqis nor Americans are any safer.
Please write to your members of
Congress today and urge them to do everything to end these endless wars and
prioritize human needs over war and militarism.
The human costs of
this war are unfathomable. However, we know the financial costs all too
well. Nearly $2 trillion of taxpayer money has been spent on the
Iraq War since 2003. This money could have instead been invested
in education, infrastructure, racial justice, healthcare, a greener
economy, and so much more. The Biden Administration and Congress must work
together to end the decades of unchallenged fighting, killing, dying, and
spending. They must reflect on a legacy of wars and overseas operations
that disproportionately target and impact people of color around the world.
They must end not just the Iraq War, but withdraw U.S. troops from far
flung combat zones from Afghanistan to the Sahel in Africa.
Please contact your members of
Congress and urge them to speak out against militarism and ever-growing
Pentagon spending.
On this
anniversary, I ask you to speak out against the years of bloodshed. To
speak out against the military-industrial complex that perpetuates systems
of oppression both at home and abroad. To speak out against the billions of
dollars shoveled to the Pentagon year after year.
We have an
opportunity to once and for all end the Iraq War, end endless wars, and
call for a reallocation of funds from the Pentagon into diplomacy,
humanitarian assistance, and human needs. Help urge the President and
Congress to seize it.
In peace,
Lilly Dragnev
Peace Action
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Further action
Diverse Coalition Calls on Congress to End 'Forever Wars' and
'Unaccountable, Interventionist' US Foreign Policy by
Jessica Corbett, staff writer.
Common Dreams (2-18-21).
A separate letter, signed by some of the same groups, lays out how the Biden
administration can "end the cycle of endless war of the last two
decades."
USA: VIOLENT NATION (from
Abel Tomlinson soon after the murder of eight Asian women)
Not sure if you heard the following story. In a culture that still glorifies
this, it's no wonder mass violence occurs so regularly. In response to a
comment I made about opposing racism-fueling warfare & USA nuking hundreds
of thousands of Asian civilians, a friend of a friend wrote:
"My high school mascot is The Bombers with a mushroom cloud as the icon.
There’s a B52 painted on the side of the school representing the plane that
dropped the Nagasaki bomb. The plane’s name is “A Day’s Pay” because the
workers at the Hanford power plant that built the bomb donated a workday’s pay
to fund the plane.
There’s been a battle
between those who are “Proud of the Cloud” and those who are fighting to change
the mascot: “There’s no silver lining behind this cloud.”
We used to chant “Nuke
‘em till they glow!” at basketball games.
I feel really inspired
to head a movement to change the mascot for good."
More deeply detailed
story:
https://memoriesofthepeople.wordpress.com/2018/07/19/going-nuclear-the-high-school-mascot-of-mass-destruction/amp/
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