Dear members and supporters,
Earlier this month, we marked one year of resistance to genocide in Gaza, a worldwide uprising in the continuing struggle against 76 brutal years of occupation, apartheid, ethnic cleansing, and settler colonialism in Palestine.
Millions of people took to the streets and shut down arms factories, bridges, and train stations. Trade and labor unions passed motions in solidarity and held strike actions. Reporters, editors, professors, and cultural workers centered, educated, and created art and curriculum to expose Israeli crimes. Interest in divestment movements surged, with students around the globe holding universities accountable and communities confronting investments in Israeli apartheid.
Divesting from the war machine that fuels systems of oppression and shifting to investing in care and life-sustaining economies is the guiding principle of our developing campaign. As we refine our divest-invest campaign with members, we’re continuing to work toward demilitarization and our feminist vision of peace.
This year, we protested and mobilized across the country, supporting Palestine solidarity actions from the federal lawsuit filed in Oakland charging the Biden administration with complicity in Israel’s genocide to uplifting the call for an immediate arms embargo on Israel.
The connections between militarism and Zionism stretch from Richmond to Palestine. At the Convergence for Just Futures in Chicago, organized by Muslims for Just Futures, we co-led a workshop with Asian Pacific Environmental Network exploring how U.S. imperialism and capitalism propels environmental racism and militarism.
The U.S. military itself is the single largest institutional consumer of fossil fuels on Earth, and its occupying forces at home and abroad routinely contaminate land, water, and air, jeopardizing the health, livelihoods, and well-being of people around the globe.
At the Alaska Just Transition Summit in March, we held a workshop on demilitarization and just transition with Native Movement, Micronesia Climate Change Alliance, and Alaska Community Action on Toxics, examining the damage and violence caused by militarization in Alaska, Guåhan, and beyond. We discussed how to hold the military accountable and prevent harm through community-based research, organizing, and
advocacy.
Learn more about the impacts of the U.S. military on Micronesia in our new video! |