Yemen is Massachusetts’ war: Standout for an end to Raytheon/Saudi attack on Yemen Tuesday, July 31 5pm – 6pm Outside South Station, Boston

Yemen is Massachusetts’ war:

Standout for an end to Raytheon/Saudi attack on Yemen

Tuesday, July 31

5pm – 6pm

Outside South Station, Boston

 

 

Raytheon (with plants in Waltham, Cambridge and other Mass. locations) provides Saudi Arabia with the bombs and technology that are a major cause of thousands of deaths and the physical destruction responsible for:

 

A raging cholera epidemic with 2,100 dead of cholera so far and 900,000 infected

Millions are on the edge of war-caused famine - including 400,000 children.

Terror from the sky caused by 16,749 air raids so far – 15 every day (sources: Doctors without borders; Save the Children; World Health Org; OCHA; UNICEF)

 

Raytheon’s bombs, technology and its 50 year relationship with the brutal Saudi regime have made this war crime possible.

 

Meanwhile Raytheon is pressuring the U.S. government to let is sell even more of its bombs to Saudi Arabia as its profits skyrocket. (Boston Globe 6/14/18)

 

As the host to this behemoth of the military industrial complex, Massachusetts is the technology hub for Saudi Arabia’s war crimes against people who have done us no harm.

 

Time to stand up for the survival of the people of Yemen and against the war criminals

 

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Join in the July 26th Coalitions celebration of July 26th

Claudia Kaiser-Lenoir leads a program for the annual July 26th Cuban
Revolution Day Celebration, the 65th anniversary of the July 26,
1953 rebel attack led by Fidel and Raul Castro on the Moncada military
barracks. Claudia is the co-founder of the Latin American Studies
program at Tufts and has traveled to Cuba on many occasions. She’ll talk
about the perspective from this year’s May Day Brigade.

The program will also celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Venceremos
Brigade by longtime participant Greg LaMotta.

Richard Cambridge will treat us to one of his poems related to the day.

Dr. Tia Tucker, a graduate of Escuela Latino Americana de Medicina,
ELAM, featured in a movie in the June Pastors for Peace program,
currently serving in Cambridge, will also speak.

Thursday July 26th 7 PM


Encuentro 5, 9A Hamilton Place (around the corner from Park St.)

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Background info on presentations

Footsteps of Che trip http://www.nnoc.info/mayday-brigade-program/

International Medical School http://medicc.org/ns/elam/

Venceremos Brigade https://vb4cuba.com/

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Yemen is Massachusetts’ war: Standout for an end to Raytheon/Saudi attack on Yemen Tuesday, July 31 5pm – 6pm Outside South Station, Boston

Yemen is Massachusetts’ war:

Standout for an end to Raytheon/Saudi attack on Yemen

Tuesday, July 31

5pm – 6pm

Outside South Station, Boston

The Army Is Investigating An Officer For Publicly Protesting The US Government’s ‘War Machine’

BUSINESS INSIDER

July 23, 2018

The Army Is Investigating An Officer For Publicly Protesting The US Government’s ‘War Machine’

by Christopher Woody, Business Insider 

Captain Brittany DeBarros wearing shirt of

About Face Veterans Against the War, formerly

called Iraq Veterans Against the War

Brittany DeBarros is waging the kind of vehement public protest via Twitter against the Defense Department and U.S. government that’s commonplace in the Trump-era — except that DeBarros is a captain in the U.S. Army Reserve assigned to the Army’s Psychological Operations Command.

According to DeBarros’ Twitter account, she has been called up on two-week assignment since July 14, but each day since then DeBarros has posted tweets criticizing “the horror being carried out by our war machine for profit,” with the Army moving to investigate the officer’s remarks.

The “Dept. of ‘Defense’ is the largest oil consumer worldwide,” DeBarros notes in one tweet. “The violence unleashed directly is horrific, but it also has massive spillover impacts.”

“Defense corporations made contributions to 496 of 525 Congress members in 2018,” DeBarros said in her most recent tweet, posted on July 20, the seventh day of her assignment. Defense contractors are prolific political donors, though many of their contributions come from their political-action committees, owners, employees, or employees’ immediate families.

 

DeBarros, however, has stopped short of directly criticizing President Trump during her July protest; using “contemptuous words” against the president is a violation of military law.

 

DeBarros detailed her criticism of U.S. foreign policy and its impact at home in a June 23 speech in Washington, DC, at a Poor People’s Campaign rally.

During the speech, DeBarros said she was a combat veteran who identified as a woman, Latina, white, black, and queer, and that as a person “existing at the intersection of these identities, I carry a grave conviction in my core that there can be no true economic, racial, gender liberation without addressing the militarism that is strangling the morality and empathy out of our society.”

 

“For decades, we have been lulled into complacency and inattention as our drones have obliterated weddings, funerals, religious ceremonies, ordinary homes, and ordinary people,” DeBarros said.

“We begrudge the poor for the pennies we give them to eat and survive but cheer for the nearly $600 billion annually we spend on defense. The military industrial complex is literally corporate greed weaponized,” DeBarros added. “From the militarized equipment in which our police forces and federal agencies are clad, to the large percent of current and former soldiers conditioned for war and then hired to occupy our streets to keep peace, is it any wonder that our neighborhoods are treated like combat zones, and our neighbors treated like combatants?”

 

DeBarros’ protest has gained the attention of the Army, which confirmed her assignment to Army Times and said it was looking into her statements.

 

Officials at U.S. Army Civil Affairs and Psychological Operations Command “are aware of the situation surrounding Cpt. Brittany DeBarros,” Army spokesman Sgt. 1st Class Stephen Crofoot told Army Times on Friday. “To maintain the integrity of the ongoing investigation, we are unable to comment at this time.”

 

Army Reserve and National Guard soldiers are permitted to make political statements in public while they have civilian status but doing so is not allowed while they are on active orders. DeBarros did not reply to Facebook messages sent by Army Times, nor did she respond to a Twitter message sent by Business Insider on Monday.

 

DeBarros’ June speech came just a few days after the Army’s 10th Mountain Division accepted the resignation of 2nd Lt. Spenser Rapone.

 

Rapone — an Afghanistan combat veteran and a 2016 West Point graduate — posted pictures of himself at his West Point graduation in a T-shirt with Che Guevara’s face and with a sign reading, “Communism will win,” inside his hat.

 

Rapone, who says he retains an honorable discharge from his enlisted service, posted the photos in September 2017, telling the Associated Press he did so in solidarity with Colin Kaepernick.

The photos provoked a backlash, including a call for an investigation by Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio, which prompted West Point to say Rapone’s actions “in no way reflect the values” of West Point or the Army.

 

Rapone enlisted in the Army after high school and served as a Ranger in Afghanistan but became disillusioned with the military soon after joining, he said in June on an episode of What a Hell of a Way to Die, a left-wing podcast hosted by two combat veterans.

 

“By the time I deployed, I encountered most people who had no real interest in why we were fighting and [were] more so interested in just the next time they could go out and kill brown people and just [terrorize] the Afghan population,” Rapone said.

 

“To this day, we had this nebulous idea of going after the Haqqani network, and I’m sure they’re not great dudes, but it’s like, are they really threatening the United States of America?” Rapone said. “And isn’t it the United States that caused Afghanistan to turn into [a] hellscape?”

 

As The 100th Anniversary Of The Armistice Day 11/11/1918 at 11 AM Commences-Some Creative Artists Who Fought/Died/Lived Through The Nightmare That Destroyed The Flower Of European And American Youth –Frederick Leger

As The 100^th Anniversary Of The Armistice Day 11/11/1918 at 11 AM Commences-Some Creative Artists Who Fought/Died/Lived Through The Nightmare That Destroyed The Flower Of European And American Youth –Frederick Leger

By Seth Garth

A few years ago, starting in August 2104 the 100^th anniversary of what would become World War I, I started a series about the cultural effects, some of them anyway, of the slaughter which mowed down the flower of the European youth including an amazing number of artists, poets, writers and other cultural figures. Those culturati left behind, those who survived the shellings, the trenches, the diseases, and what was then called “shell shock,” now more commonly Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) which is duly recognized, and compensated for at least in the United States by the Veterans Administration in proven cases reacted in many different ways. Mainly, the best of them, like the ordinary dog soldiers could not go back to the same old, same old, could not revive the certitudes of the pre-war Western world with it distorted sense of decorum and went to what even today seem quirky with moderns like Dada, Minimalism, the literary sparseness of Hemingway, and so on. I had my say there in a general sense but now as we are only a few months away from the 100^th anniversary of, mercifully, the armistice which effectively ended that bloodbath I want to do a retrospective of creative artistic works by those who survived the war and how those war visions got translated into their works with some commentary if the spirit moves me but this is their show-no question they earned a retrospective.