Hundreds Arrested Nationwide as Poor People's Campaign Demands 'End to the War Economy'

[guillaumeb]

From the article:

Inspired by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s warning that "a nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom," the Poor People's Campaign launched its third week of action in cities nationwide on Tuesday with the aim of confronting the American war economy, which pours resources that could be used to provide healthcare and food to the poor at home into the killing of innocents abroad.

To read more:

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/05/29/hundreds-arrested-nationwide-poor-peoples-campaign-demands-end-war-economy?u

[dixiegrrrrl]

1. "We have a long history of wars against other people, mostly people of color, around the world.

It's time we stopped calling it the Defense Department and started calling it what it is: the Department of War."

We shared the same idea back in the days of the Anti Nixon/Viet Nam war days.

Nothing seems to slow down the arms budgets.

[guillaumeb]

3. A trillion a year in total spending,

approximately 1,000 military bases, and endless war.

And yet it is called the defense budget.

[leftstreet]

2. DURec

[lindysalsagal]

4. Wow. Occupy Wall Street isn't over. Good for them.