Today, alongside fellow queer community groups, businesses, and individuals, we are publishing an open letter to the leadership of Blue Ridge Pride asking that they cut ties with military contractor Pratt & Whitney.
"We do not believe that Pratt & Whitney, a company profiting from the death of queer Palestinians, has any place at Pride. We do not believe that any company involved in war crimes should be welcome at Pride."
You can read the full letter at https://bit.ly/brp-open-letter. Local queer organizations wishing to endorse this letter are invited to add their names by contacting us.
#Raytheon Blockaded at UA Tech Park For Supplying Bombs to #Israel [Nov. 30, 2023] [CAPTIONS]
Recent protests in #Tucson, AZ have been targeting weapons manufacturer Raytheon for its role in enabling Israeli war crimes against Palestinian civilians.
On November 30, demonstrators blockaded the UA Tech Park where the University of #Arizona collaborates with Raytheon
As the Death Toll Rises, So Does the Profits of Arms Manufacturers
The conflicts in Gaza, Ukraine, and beyond may be causing immense and unconscionable human suffering, but they are also boosting the bottom lines of the world’s arms manufacturers.
This Sunday at 4pm, our co-op is hosting local activists from Reject Raytheon for a photo exhibit chronicling almost three years of antimilitarist street protests and consciousness raising. Reject Raytheon began in 2020, when Buncombe County Commissioners unanimously voted to give $27 million in tax incentives to Pratt & Whitney, a subsidiary of war profiteer Raytheon / RTX.
Raytheon is the second largest aerospace weapons company in the world, known for supplying Saudi Arabia with weapons for its genocidal war in Yemen, producing components for nuclear weapons, drones, cruise missiles, and surveillance equipment for the militarized Arizona border. Subsidiary Pratt & Whitney—now hiring for its manufacturing plant in Asheville—supplies the engines used in the F-35 fighter jets being used by Israel to kill thousands of civilians in Gaza.
Raytheon, whose parent corporation RTX Technologies is Tucson’s largest employer with over 12,000 local workers, began supplying components to Israel’s Iron Dome missile system in 2014.
Cable News Keeps Inviting Defense Industry Shills to Explain the War on Gaza
As Israel mercilessly bombs Gaza, cable news channels are inviting defense officials turned industry consultants onto their shows to explain the war — and usually to justify the unjustifiable. Andrew Perez and Lucy Dean Stockton write.
The U.S. Air Force has announced that it is ordering AMRAAM missiles worth $1.15 billion from Raytheon Missiles and Defense to supply to Ukraine, the U.S. Department of Defense reported on June 20....
Pentagon orders AMRAAM missiles worth over $1 billion for Ukraine (english.nv.ua)
The U.S. Air Force has announced that it is ordering AMRAAM missiles worth $1.15 billion from Raytheon Missiles and Defense to supply to Ukraine, the U.S. Department of Defense reported on June 20....