“Until Congress blocks the bombs, we will,” said the coalition of activists at the manufacturing plant in Missouri.
Members of the Palestinian solidarity coalition stand in front of Boeing holding up a banner with the names of 1,300 of the more than 4,100 Palestinian children who have been killed by the Israeli military in Gaza.Members of the Palestinian solidarity coalition stand in front of Boeing holding up a banner with the names of 1,300 of the more than 4,100 Palestinian children who have been killed by the Israeli military in Gaza., a major weapons manufacturing company located in St.
Organizers used their bodies to physically block the three separate entrances to the Boeing 598 bomb facility beginning at 7 a.m., before the first workers at the plant arrived. One of the five-foot-long banners that the coalition held displayed the names of 1,300 of the more than 4,100 Palestinian children who have been killed in Gaza and read “We Mourn.” Before holding a moment of silence, a Palestinian organizer with the coalition read out the names of these 1,300 children over a megaphone.
The action targeting Boeing in Missouri today is no different. Residents of St. Charles recognize the horror that such weapons manufacturing companies have inflicted on their own lives as well. After all, St. Charles isn’t far from St. Louis, where protests in Ferguson swelled the streets following the police-perpetrated murder of Michael Brown in 2014.
People are chanting now about Biden. We’ve been asking for a ceasefire for many weeks. There’s been millions of people demanding a ceasefire across the United States and the world. Biden and Boeing won’t stop the flow of bombs, so we are coming to block it for them. We have been using our bodies to physically blockade these entrances and to prevent weapons from going out of the facility.
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