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.
Ngati chipani chachikulu sichingalimbane ndi izi, chingachitike ndi chiyani?
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.”
Ntchito yodziwika yopatsa anthu omwe apindula ndi nkhondoyi yatha. Kuphatikiza pakukakamiza mamembala athu a Congress kuti akane zopereka zothandizidwa ndi opanga zida ndi zida zankhondo, tiyenera kukhazikitsa gawo lozama pantchito ya mabungwe ndi oyang'anira mabungwe. Kugulitsa kunkhondo kuyenera kubwera chifukwa chomenyedwa ndi anthu onse.
Ophunzira ku Yunivesite atha kupempha chidziwitso m'masukulu awo. Nthawi zambiri, mabizinesi m'magulu ankhondo amamangidwa m'mabungwe azachuma ovuta omwe mabizinesi awo samavomerezedwa. Zomwe zili pazida izi zitha kutsimikiziridwa ndi kulumikizana ndi gulu la asitikali a yunivesite kapena manejala wa mphamvu. Kenako pakukhazikitsidwa kampeni yoyambitsidwa, kumanga mabungwe ophunzirira sukulu, kupempha zopempha, kukonza zochita mwachindunji ndikupereka zigamulo kudzera m'maboma a ophunzira. Buku lowongolera lothandizira ophunzira ogwira ntchito angapezeke Pano.
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 Pano.
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.
Mgwirizano watsopano wamagulu pafupifupi a 70 m'dziko lonselo akhazikitsa kukhazikitsa kampeni ya Divest From the War Machine. Mgwirizanowu ukupempha onse omwe akhumudwitsidwa ndi akatswiri ankhondo kuti athandize kulimbikitsa yunivesite, mzinda, penshoni ndi mabungwe achipembedzo kuti achoke kunkhondo .. Phunzirani zambiri ku: http://www.divestfromwarmachine.org/
M'malankhulidwe a 2015 ku US Congress, Congress yomwe yadziwika kwambiri ndi gulu lankhondo, Papa Francis adafunsa chifukwa chake zida zakufa zikugulitsidwa kwa iwo omwe amachititsa kuti anthu azunzidwa. Yankho, anati, linali ndalama, "ndalama zomwe zimakhetsedwa m'mwazi, nthawi zambiri magazi osalakwa." Poyang'ana m'chipinda chodzaza ndi anthu ambiri omwe amapindula ndi zomwe amatcha "amalonda aimfa," Papa adafuna kuti manja awachotse. malonda. Njira imodzi yomvera mayitanidwe a Papa ndikudya zipatso za omwe amapha anthu akamapha.
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