Seeds Will Grow

Yesterday began a week of action resisting the war machine. I shared an article last week about the ginormous size of the US Military – spanning the globe with more than 900 bases in 90 countries and territories.

It may not surprise you, then, to learn that the United States is also the world’s largest arms dealer, making 41% of the world’s weapons sales, and continually expanding it’s military industrial production to feed a global demand for lethal weapons. This means that all across the United States, people like you and me play a part in this ongoing war machine. This also means that, no matter where we live, we have the ability to resist the merchants of death (a.k.a. the war industry).

Recently, some brilliant minds put together a website called Warheads to Windmills. It’s a brilliant name, right? (Clear nod to the biblical prophecy of a world in which weapons of warfare are transformed into tools to cultivate life – “swords into plowshares” – Isaiah 2:4) This website identifies the seven largest players in the military industrial complex, finds out where their work intersects with your geographic location, and offers many ideas for how you can resist them.

What world do you want to see?

It’s time to tell the merchants of death that we believe they can change the world for the better. Let’s call them to choose life.

Yesterday, the target of our actions was Huntington Ingalls Industries. Today, we are targeting the message to L3Harris.

Want to take part?

Your action can be:

1. as simple as sending some emails to the weapons’ industry or financial institutions that support them,
2. as physical as joining someone else’s planned action or
3. planning your own, as creative as you can make them!
   
   (Also, don’t forget to examine your own investments to see where you and the institutions you’re part of can divest from nuclear war.)

All the details at WarheadstoWindmills.org.