On July 30, anti-war activists held a press conference and die-in to protest the genocide in Gaza and demand that Boeing be dropped as a sponsor of the Air and Water Show in Chicago.
The Anti-War Committee Chicago began in 2012 by individuals who had successfully marched against NATO in May 2012. We organize vigils, rallies, marches, educational forums, street theater and civil disobedience actions to challenge the injustices of U.S. foreign policy. We believe in peace through justice and we stand in solidarity with oppressed people here and abroad.
Wednesday, July 30, 2014
Anti-War Activists Demand City Drop Boeing From Air & Water Show
On July 30, anti-war activists held a press conference and die-in to protest the genocide in Gaza and demand that Boeing be dropped as a sponsor of the Air and Water Show in Chicago.
Tuesday, July 29, 2014
Demand Chicago Drop Boeing from Air and Water Show!
Press Conference & Die-in
Wednesday, July 30, 9:30 a.m.
City Hall, 121 N. LaSalle St., 2nd Floor
Boeing Company is a major sponsor of Chicago’s annual Air and Water Show this summer. Many people come to the lake shore every year to see displays of jets and other aircraft.
Boeing weaponry are responsible for many of the over 1000 dead and over 6000 seriously wounded Palestinians in Gaza in the past three weeks. The dead are mostly civilians, including over 200 children. Israel’s fighter jets – the F15s and F16s – as well as Apache helicopters are all made by Boeing.
Boeing has made billions from the sale of weapons for use in Israel's attacks, as part of its eight year old siege of Gaza.
The City of Chicago should drop Boeing from the sponsors of the Air and Water Show. No company that makes profit from the slaughter of civilians should be included.
Protest initiated by: Anti-War Committee – Chicago, Jews for Justice in Palestine, U.S. Palestinian Community Network and 8th Day Center for Justice. Endorsed by: Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression, Chicago Coalition to Shut Down Guantanamo, Chicago Committee to Defend the Bill of Rights, Chicago Faith Coalition on Middle East Policy, Illinois Coalition Against Torture, American Friends Service Committee, Jewish Voice for Peace, Palestine Solidarity Group, ANSWER - Chicago, Chicago Area Peace Action, Evanston Neighbors for Peace
Wednesday, July 30, 9:30 a.m.
City Hall, 121 N. LaSalle St., 2nd Floor
Boeing Company is a major sponsor of Chicago’s annual Air and Water Show this summer. Many people come to the lake shore every year to see displays of jets and other aircraft.
Boeing weaponry are responsible for many of the over 1000 dead and over 6000 seriously wounded Palestinians in Gaza in the past three weeks. The dead are mostly civilians, including over 200 children. Israel’s fighter jets – the F15s and F16s – as well as Apache helicopters are all made by Boeing.
Boeing has made billions from the sale of weapons for use in Israel's attacks, as part of its eight year old siege of Gaza.
The City of Chicago should drop Boeing from the sponsors of the Air and Water Show. No company that makes profit from the slaughter of civilians should be included.
Protest initiated by: Anti-War Committee – Chicago, Jews for Justice in Palestine, U.S. Palestinian Community Network and 8th Day Center for Justice. Endorsed by: Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression, Chicago Coalition to Shut Down Guantanamo, Chicago Committee to Defend the Bill of Rights, Chicago Faith Coalition on Middle East Policy, Illinois Coalition Against Torture, American Friends Service Committee, Jewish Voice for Peace, Palestine Solidarity Group, ANSWER - Chicago, Chicago Area Peace Action, Evanston Neighbors for Peace
Thursday, July 17, 2014
Wednesday, July 16, 2014
Protestors sit-in at Boeing Company headquarters, protest weapons for Israeli attack on Gaza Chicago – Wednesday, July 16, 2014
At 5:00 p.m. today, a group of activists from the Anti-War
Committee – Chicago (AWC), the 8th Day Center for Justice, the
American Friends Service Committee, the Episcopalian Peace Fellowship, and Jews
for Justice in Palestine, entered the Boeing Company building and refused to
leave. They went there to deliver a message: they oppose the Boeing Company
providing weapons for the Israeli siege of Gaza. The action was initiated by
Jewish Voices for Peace, as one of a number of actions happening around the
country in response to the vicious assault by Israel.
AWC – Chicago issued the following statement about their
participation the action. AWC has gone after Boeing for almost two years for
their role as the second largest arms manufacturer. Kait McIntyre, one of the
protesters, is a candidate for Boeing’s board of stock holders. Also among the
AWC protesters are Joe Iosbaker, Newland Smith, and Bonnie Coyle.
The Anti-War
Committee - Chicago condemns Boeing Company for manufacturing weapons for
targeted deaths of civilians in the Israeli siege of Gaza
In our campaign against Boeing we have routinely exposed
their company as a key element of the U.S. war machine, which profits off the
sale of weapons for U.S. wars and U.S. allies. Boeing reaps billions from the
sale of weapons for use in the Israeli
attacks on Gaza as part of its eight year old siege of Gaza. Boeing has
provided the Israeli air force with several hundred F15 and F16 fighter
planes and thousands of tail kits designed to make dumb bombs into “smart bombs,”
improving accuracy. More recently Boeing designed a laser seeker to
add to the nose of a bomb equipped with their tail kit, giving the ability to
engage moving targets.
In addition Boeing has provided at least 60 of the Apache
attack helicopters to Israel, as well as their payloads of “pinpoint accurate”
Hellfire Missiles.
In observing the precision of Boeing’s products, we learn
something about Israel’s bombing and missile strikes on Gaza. As these weapons are so precise, then the
deaths of civilian men, women and children - the vast majority of the 200
killed by Israel - are premeditated. The Israeli pilots know who is in their
gun sights. They launch their weapons with full knowledge.
This means that the Israeli pilots are no different than the
criminal settlers who burned Mohammed Abu Khdeir alive. They are killing in
cold blood. They are killing civilians – men, children, women, and old people.
They bomb food stores, hospitals, and even a center for the disabled.
The men who killed Mohammed Abu Khdeir have the sounds of
their victim in their minds, but Israeli pilots have killed hundreds since
Israel’s operation “Protective Edge” began, and thousands more throughout the
history of the occupation.
Finally, Chicago is home to one of the largest Palestinian
communities in the U.S. Chicago is also
home to the Boeing Company, whose stock price soars from the slaughter of
countless Palestinians. This is a slap in the face we cannot abide.
End the siege of Gaza now! End U.S. aid to Israel! Free
Palestine!
Friday, July 11, 2014
End the seige of Gaza NOW!
Several thousand Palestinians and their supporters rallied and marched here, July 9. Antiwar Committee Chicago is proud to be in the streets with our brothers and sisters.
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