People's Arms Embargo Shuts Down Calif Air Base Shipping Weapons To Israel

Main Gate/Hospital Gate, Travis AFB, before the blockade;  Banner and photo @DavidSolnit and friends

Good news on pro-Palestine resistance from the Left Coast on World Children's Day: the People's Arms Embargo campaign shut down every entrance to a California military base on Wednesday!

 Here's organizer Toby Blomé's account: 

 [Nov 20] on a rainy early morning, 75-100 people rallied at Travis Air Force Base in Fairfield to protest Travis’ ongoing shipments of weapons to Israel.  This is a new campaign, "The People’s Arms Embargo," to nonviolently impede the weapons supply to Israel that fuels the ongoing genocide in Gaza. 

Commercial (South) Gate, Occupy Beale Affinity Group;  Photo by Janie Kesselman

 

28 activists were arrested at Travis AFB in nonviolent Human Blockades at all 4 entrance gates to protest US weapons sent from Travis to Israel.

Over 20 organizations co-sponsored or endorsed.  Thank you!

It was a most successful day because of the participation of many people in large and small ways.  

Great media coverage and still coming. 

Main Gate, Travis AFB, The blockade begins, Banner and photo @DavidSolnit and friends

 

A beautiful example of PEOPLE POWER!   We will be back! 

The People’s Arms Embargo is a new campaign at Travis, sponsored by over 20 organizations.

Screenshot from KCRA Sacramento coverage

MEDIA COVERAGE:

‘People’s Arms Embargo’ at Travis Air Force Base                          
https://www.antiwar.com/blog/2024/11/20/peoples-arms-embargo-at-travis-air-force-base/

Photo by David Solnit

28 arrested during Israel-Hamas war protest at Travis Air Force Base                         
https://www.kcra.com/article/travis-air-force-base-israel-hamas-protest/62966290

 

Photo by Jim Ulrick

Dozens gather for 'Rallies and Human Blockade' protest at Travis Air Force Base
https://www.yahoo.com/news/dozens-gather-rallies-human-blockade-192612650.html

Long Range Missiles Flying Both Ways But Who's At The Controls?

 

In the puppet show that is U.S. national politics, the best time to ramp up a war is when no one really knows which puppet to pretend is calling the shots. Giving the green light to ATACAMs long range missiles fired into Russia this week by Ukraine with a lot of U.S. help and also to Shadow Storm long rangers from the UK -- we all know Biden isn't mentally capable of this. But it's convenient for headlines and propaganda purposes to assign him this agency. 

And to posit that this is all being done in a big rush before the incoming administration can bring peace. Uh huh. A less peaceful group than those appointed by 47 thus far would be challenging to assemble.

Then there's coverage of the initial Russian response, which was to use its Intercontinental Ballistic Missile for the first time ever. The ICBM released five other missiles over Ukraine that air defense systems there could do nothing to intercept. These were not nuclear missiles but a point being made by use of the delivery system is: they could have been.

Back to the U.S. lurching toward Armageddon with who exactly at the wheel? Here's an unsubstantiated internet rumor to chew on:

https://x.com/TonySeruga/status/1858728300899979298

The intermingling of corporate interests and a form of government that nobody believes is "for the people" is just about complete. Faced with the fact that very few want to be soldiers in the imperial wars corporations said, Great, we'll just replace them with a lot of expensive hardware, like drones. We borrow the money to finance this, CEOs make big bucks, and winning is not the point.

People say that the alphas[sic] all have bunkers with fantastic life support systems and elaborate security provisions. Or that some of them will be blasting off for outer space to escape nuclear war fallout. 

This fails to explain in my mind how the lust for even more wealth could bring someone to the brink of destroying Eden, our planet.

I can only hope for cooler heads in Russia and China to prevail, or possibly for coders anywhere to figure out how to interfere with the ultimate deployment.

Hey, a girl can dream.