Handout for 4/26/22 Veterans for Peace Chapter 099 Vigil

 

From the VFP Website:

The military-industrial complex promotes and profits from the creation of militarized borders all over the world. The same corporations, investors, and public agencies that fuel the war industry also create and maintain walls, surveillance technologies, weapons, police training, and prison facilities that divide peoples and destroy natural environments in the supposedly non-war zones of national borders.

To join Veterans for Peace, or to sign up for VFP e-News, go to: https://www.veteransforpeace.org
Chapter 099 - Western North Carolina
Website: www.vfp099.org /  Facebook: Veterans for Peace Chapter 099
Phone: (828) 490-1872

More photos from Earth Day action 4/22/22

 Photos from the bridge action (Blue Ridge Parkway bridge) and the civil disobedience actions (on the road leading to the Pratt & Whitney plant). Photos by Pamela Mumby.

 

More photos from Earth Day Rally: Windmills, not War Machines.

 These are photos from the rally site in Bent Creek River Park. Photos by Pamela Mumby.

 

Earth Day Rally at Bent Creek River Park in Asheville NC

#RRAVL #WIRN #EarthDay2022 #ResistWarIndustry

 

 

Photos from the Earth Day Rally in Asheville. The theme was "Convert the War Economy: Windmills not War Machines" and was organized by Reject Raytheon Asheville. Western North Carolina Veterans for Peace Chapter 099 also present. From this park, you can see a bridge for the Blue Ridge Parkway, and see the much bigger bridge to the land that Pratt & Whitney (owned by Raytheon) are building on. Rather messed up the view shed for the Blue Ridge Parkway. This event was held on April 22, 2022.
Above photo is Brass Your Heart band.

Above photo is Brass Your Heart band.

Sign at the rally.

Another sign at the rally.

Saro lead us in song several times during the rally.

Saro leading us in song again.

Lyle Peterson holding a banner.

Saro with the banner behind her.

Rev. Sarah Wilcox speaking.

Saro singing with the Vets for Peace banner in the background.

Bill Branyon speaking at the rally. Bill Branyon is running for Buncombe County Commissioner in District #1.

Adam Hall speaking at the rally.

Photo of the crowd at the rally.

Steve Norris speaking at the rally.

Another speaker at the rally, and I did not catch her name (sorry).

Matthew Hoh speaking at the rally. Matthew is running for US Senate from North Carolina under the Green Party ticket.

A photo of the banner and Ken Jones, main organizer of the rally.

Another photo of Brass Your Heart and banner at the rally.

Photo of the rally and another banner. All the above photos taken by Susan Oehler.

Upcoming event on 4/22/22

 

DATE: FRIDAY, APRIL 22, 2022
TIME: 10 AM TO ???
LOCATION: BENT CREEK RIVER PARK IN SOUTH ASHEVILLE, NC

The Pratt & Whitney plant now being built in Asheville is a danger to people and planet. It will manufacture airfoil turbines, integral components of jet engines to be used in both military and commercial aircraft.

Pratt & Whitney is wholly owned by Raytheon Technologies, the second largest war corporation in the world. It is an essential part of the supply chain for F-35s and other US fighter jets used in wars around the world in the interests of global capitalism and US imperialism. The US military is the largest institutional producer of greenhouse gasses in the world.

The production of jet engines, even for commercial use, is a threat to humanity, contributing to the ever worsening climate emergency we now face. Investing in the aerospace industry is exactly the wrong direction to take at this urgent time.

What is needed is to convert our economy from one centered on the war industry to one that addresses the climate emergency. The Pratt & Whitney plant can and should be producing components for wind turbines, rapid rail systems, and solar collectors. Not for jet engines.
We will hold a rally on Earth Day, Friday, April 22, at 10 am. at the Bent Creek River Park to raise awareness about the Pratt & Whitney plant and to call for Windmills Not War Machines.

Please join us to stand for people and planet over profits.

Event hosted by Reject Raytheon Asheville.

NOTE ON PARKING: The park is small and has limited parking. Additional parking may be found at the Bent Creek Baptist Church 0.4 of a mile north of the park on Rt. 191 (Brevard Rd)

Handout for WNC Veterans for Peace Chapter 099 Vigil on 4/19/22

 

From the VFP Website:

    Clearly, there are no winners in the terrible war in Ukraine — except one: U.S. and British military contractors who will carry their increased profits all the way to the bank.
    These military contractors have numerous ways to determine Pentagon budgets, shape our foreign policy, create war fever, and pick our friends and enemies.
    The result is $768,000,000,000. That’s $768 billion dollars. Democrats and Republicans in Congress just passed the most bloated military budget ever.

To join Veterans for Peace, or to sign up for VFP e-News, go to: https://www.veteransforpeace.org
Chapter 099 - Western North Carolina
Website: www.vfp099.org /  Facebook: Veterans for Peace Chapter 099
Phone: (828) 490-1872

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