In recent budget negotiations, Senate Democrats agreed to a boost in military spending that exceeded the cap for fiscal 2018 by $70 billion, bringing the total request to an enormous $716 billion. Inevitably, this means more Pentagon contracts will be awarded to private corporations that use endless war to line their pockets. Democrats capitulated to this massive increase without so much as a scuffle. But the move hardly comes as a surprise, given how much money flows from weapons makers to the coffers of congressional campaigns for both parties.
While the majority of the weapons money goes to Republicans, Democratic Senators Tim Kaine and Bill Nelson appear in the top ten recipients of campaign contributions–in both chambers and parties–from military contractors in 2017 and 2018. Northrop Grumman gave $785,000 to Democratic candidates since 2017.Hillary Clinton took over $1 million from the industry in 2016. Even progressive darlings like Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders take money from weapons manufacturers, and Sanders supported Boeing’s disastrous F-35 because his home state had a financial stake in the program.
Ger ti partiyên siyasî yên mezin li hemberî vê statukoyê rawestin, wê çi bê kirin?
One answer might be found in the recent push to divest from fossil fuel companies undertaken by, among others, Norway and New York City. By December of 2016, 688 institutions, representing over $5 trillion in assets, had divested from fossil fuels. In an interview with The Guardian, author Naomi Klein described the fossil fuel divestment effort as “a process of delegitimizing” the sector and of affirming that it yields “odious profits.”
Kampanyayek bi heman rengî ya ji bo nemeşrûkirina sûdmendên şer demek dirêj e. Ji bilî zexta li ser endamên me yên Kongreyê ji bo redkirina bexşên kampanyayê yên ji çêkerên çekan û qazancên şer re, divê em di asta sazî û şaredariyê de hewildanek veguheztinê bidin meşandin. Veberhênana di şer de divê bi berdêla rûreşiya gel be.
Xwendekarên zanîngehê dikarin ji dibistanên xwe agahdariya xwedîtiyê bixwazin. Bi gelemperî, veberhênanên di pargîdaniyên leşkerî de di nav amûrên darayî yên tevlihevtir ên ku veberhênanên wan bi gelemperî nayên eşkere kirin têne hev kirin. Naveroka van amûran dikare bi têkiliya lijneyek bawermendê zanîngehê an rêveberê weqfê re were destnîşankirin. Dûv re kampanyayek veguheztinê dikare were destpêkirin, avakirina hevbendiyên kampusê, çêkirina daxwaznameyên, organîzekirina çalakiyên rasterast û derbaskirina biryaran di nav saziyên hukûmeta xwendekaran de. Rêbernameyek arîkar ji bo çalakvanên xwendekar dikare were dîtin vir.
Activists can launch municipal divestment efforts by determining the holdings of city pension, utility, or insurance funds. In 2017 the U.S. Conference of Mayors, the national association of cities with populations over 30,000, adopted a resolution acknowledging the need to transform funding priorities away from war-making and into local communities. Divestment campaigns can leverage this resolution in order to hold city leaders to their word. More information for activists at the city level is available vir.
Divestment offers an alternate means of addressing the blight of war profiteering in an era in which traditional political routes have been closed by our craven representatives. It also brings the message into smaller communities–communities that crumble while defense contractors live in luxury.
Hevbendiyek nû ya ji nêzîkê 70 koman li seranserê welêt pêk tê ji bo destpêkirina kampanyaya Divest From the War Machine. Hevbendî hemû kesên ku ji qazancên şer nefret dikin vedixwîne da ku alîkariyê bidin zanîngeh, bajar, xanenişîn û saziyên bawerî ji bo dûrxistina şer. http://www.divestfromwarmachine.org/
Di axaftinek 2015-an de ji Kongresa Dewletên Yekbûyî re, kongreya ku ew qas bi makîneya şer ve girêdayî ye, Papa Francis pirs kir ku çima çekên kujer ji kesên ku êşên bêhesab li civakê dikin têne firotin. Bersiv, wî got, pere bû, "pereyê ku di xwînê de tê avdan, pir caran xwîna bêguneh." Dema ku li jûreyek tijî endamên kongreyê yên ku ji tiştên ku wî jê re digotin "bazirganên mirinê" sûd werdigirin, mêze kir, Papa banga rakirina bazirganiya çekan kir. Yek rê ji bo guhdarîkirina banga Papa ev e ku meriv ji qezencên kesên ku kuştinê li ser kuştinê dikin bixwin.
ZNetwork tenê bi comerdîtiya xwendevanên xwe ve tê fînanse kirin.
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