Raytheon Company, yomwe ili ku Waltham, Massachusetts, ndi gulu lankhondo laku US
kontrakitala. Ndi ndalama zapachaka zopitilira $20 biliyoni, 90 peresenti kuchokera kuchitetezo
makontrakitala, Raytheon ndiye wopanga zida zazikulu zachitatu padziko lonse lapansi.
Mu 1999 Raytheon anatsegula ofesi ku Derry City, Northern Ireland. Chodabwitsa,
Raytheon adabweretsedwa ku Derry panthawi yamtendere waku Northern Ireland
ndi andale a Nationalist ndi Unionist ndipo adawonetsedwa ngati chitsanzo cha
zomwe gawo lamtendere lingapindule kwa anthu okhala ndi ena apamwamba
kusowa kwa ntchito ku Ulaya. Pambuyo pake, Raytheon adangopanga mozungulira
40 ntchito. Komabe, ndale zakomweko - ngakhale Raytheon ali ndi chidwi
mu milandu yankhondo ya Bush ndi a Blair-akana kukakamiza kampaniyo
kuopa kuti osunga ndalama aku US atumizidwa uthenga wolakwika.
Mu Ogasiti 2006, atanyansidwa ndi kuukira kwa Israeli mothandizidwa ndi US ku Lebanon,
omenyera nkhondo ku Derry adachita zionetsero, kukhala, ndi "kuchotsa ntchito".
Raytheon komweko. Tsopano, mamembala asanu ndi anayi a Derry Anti-war Coalition
(DAWC) omwe adatenga nawo gawo pantchitoyi akukumana ndi zilango zandende.
Eamonn McCann, m'modzi mwa a Raytheon 9, ndi woyambitsa ufulu wachibadwidwe wa 1960s.
movement ku Northern Ireland, wolemba mabuku angapo, kuphatikizapo Nkhondo ndi
ndi Irish Town, wolemba nkhani zofalitsa zambiri ku Ireland, wapampando wa
Bloody Sunday Trust, membala wa Socialist Workers Party, komanso wakale
woimira Socialist Environmental Alliance ku Northern Ireland
zisankho zaposachedwa za National Assembly. McCann akufotokoza chifukwa chake Raytheon adayang'aniridwa:
"Tsiku lililonse linkabwera ndi malipoti okhudza kuukira kwa Israeli, omwe amati ndi malo a Hizbollah,
koma, monga zikuwonekera kuchokera m'nkhani zankhani, kubweretsa imfa ndi zowawa ku mantha
anthu wamba.โ McCann akuti msonkhano wa DAWC "unavotera kusankha chomera cha Raytheon
pa Ogasiti 9 ndipo, ngati kuli kotheka, kukhala ndikuchotsa malowoโฆ.
Mโmalo mwake, asanu ndi anayi a ife tinakhoza kuloลตa. Makompyuta ndi mapepala anali
kuponyedwa kuchokera m'mazenera. Mainframe anali oletsedwa. โ
Posachedwapa, umboni unapezeka kuti mankhwala a Raytheon anali atagwiritsidwa ntchito
ku Qana, Lebanon kupha. Umboni ukuwonetsanso kuyandikira kwa
kuphulika kwa bomba lomwe linatulutsidwa ku Qana. Zizindikiro zimazindikiritsa
gulu la bomba loyendetsedwa ndi Raytheon MK-84 BSU-37/B. Mc Cann anati: โNgati a Raytheon
9 ndi zigawenga ndiye tikufunsidwa kuvomereza kuti ndi a
umbanda kutenga udindo wa kampani ya zida, koma osati mlandu woti ukhale nawo
dziko; kuti ndi mlandu kusiya makompyuta pawindo laofesi,
koma si mlandu kuponya mivi kwa anthu osalakwa. Raytheon 9 adzatero
ayang'ane kukhothi ngati omwe akutsutsa Raytheon, osati woimbidwa mlandu, ndipo adzagwiritsa ntchito
mlandu wowunikira milandu yankhondo ya maboma a US ndi UK. "
Colm Bryce, nayenso wa Raytheon 9 ndi Derry Antiwar Coalition, akuti:
โTakhala tikumutsutsa Raytheon kuyambira pomwe adabwera kuno mu 1999. Iwo adati
sanali kugwira ntchito iliyonse yankhondo. Komabe, antchito akale atiuza
anali kugwira ntchito zankhondo. Pachimake cha nkhondo ya ku Lebanoni tinapeza
kuti ndege zonyamula katundu za US zikuthamangitsira mabomba ku Israeli. Tinamva choncho
zinthu zikuchitika nthawi zonse. Monga momwe asitikali aku US amagwiritsira ntchito Shannon
eyapoti kuno ku Ireland kutumiza asitikali kupita ku Iraq. Zinali ngati zosapiririka.
Izi sizokhudza ife. Izi ndi zomwe zikuchitika ku Lebanon, Iraq ndi
Afghanistan tsiku lililonse. Tikufuna kuyika Raytheon ndi nkhondo
mlandu.โ
Larry Kirwan, mtsogoleri wa Black 47 - gulu la rock la Ireland ku New York City - akutero
kuti gulu lake "lalankhula motsutsana ndi Nkhondo ku Iraq popeza inali chabe
kunyezimira m'maso mwa Messrs. Bush ndi Cheney. Mafani athu ambiri omwe ali muutumiki
tsopano akuvutika ndi zotulukapo za kuwukira kosayenera kumeneku. The Raytheon
9 si zigawenga, akungoyang'ana kwambiri zapano
Malamulo aku Middle East alephera. Anali ndi mamiliyoni a ife
ku US omwe adawona mabodza a Bush/Cheney adachita zachiwawa zofananira
ntchito, sitingakhale pamalo ovuta omwe timapezeka ku Iraq
lero. โ
Raytheon 9 alandira thandizo kuchokera ku Ireland konse komanso kudutsa
dziko. Ena mwa omwe asayina chikalata chothandizira ndi Noam
Chomsky, Mark Thomas, Christy Moore, George Galloway MP, Salma Yaqoob (Stop
The War Coalition UK) Ibrahim Mousawi (Lebanon), Caoimhe Butterly, Richard
Boyd Barrett (Irish Anti-War Movement), ndi ena ambiri.
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Sandy Boyer amatsogolera nawo wailesi ya WBAI "Free Eireann" ndipo watsogolera kampeni
kuti amasule akaidi a ndale a ku Ireland. Iye waperekapo zolemba za Irish
kulimbana ndi zofalitsa ku Ireland ndi US kuphatikiza Ndale Zatsopano
ndi Bulangeti. Shaun Harkin ndiwothandizira nthawi zonse ku Socialist
Wogwira ntchito ndi Ndemanga ya International Socialist.