During Daniel Ellsberg Week: Weds, June 12, Northrop Grumman to be notified of their illegal activities
an invitation from the WNY Peace Center
Please see the below invitation from the WNY Peace Center:
You’re invited to join us in celebrating Daniel Ellsberg week!! Hero, whistle-blower and stellar activist Daniel Ellsberg, who passed away just a year ago, revealed to the U.S. public the truth about Vietnam and US Nuclear Weapons.
During Daniel Ellsberg Week:
· Weds, June 12, 1pm. Join us when we notify Northrop Grumman (at 1740 Wehrle Drive, Buffalo [Amherst area] NY 14221) of their illegal activities, tell them to stop breaking 6 U.S. laws forbidding the arming of a country credibly accused of war crimes, and urge them to move to producing life-sustaining items rather than instruments of war and violence. See details below. (If your group wants to cosponsor, please contact victoryross9@gmail.com; 716-931-3520). Attached is a flyer we hope you'll share!!
· Sunday June 16, 4pm. Come to Riverside Salem UCC/DC (3449 West River Rd, Grand Island NY 14072) for a conversation about Daniel Ellsberg and the Doomsday Machine. We’ll discuss whistle-blowers, the nuclear weapons systems aka the Doomsday Machine, the nuclear existential threat(s) and the need to pursue Truth and Love. Followed by a potluck. All are welcome!!
Last but not least:
Hear (or watch) our Talking Peace on Daniel Ellsberg week and the Northrup Grumman Accountability Rally. Airing on WBNY 91.3FM on Monday June 3 at Noon; and Monday June 10 at 1pm. Video permanently housed at the WNY YouTube channel. With Derek Seidman (with Truthout and Little Sis), and Prof. Joe Hall, both researchers, writers, and members of Jewish Voice for Peace Buffalo; India Walton, Senior Strategist at RootsAction/Progressive Hub, political activist and nurse; and Victory Ross, daughter of a German Jewish Holocaust Survivor (who fled to then-Palestine), with WNYPC’s Resist Militarism Taskforce. Topics: values; Daniel Ellsberg Week; Merchants of Death tribunal; war profiteering including in WNY by Northrop Grumman; WNYPC members & community will visit Northrop Grumman Weds 6/12, 1pm at its 1740 Wehrle Drive facility to notify the company of the 6 U.S. laws it is breaking by arming a country credibly accused of war crimes (RSVP encouraged to victoryross9@gmail.com or 716-931-3520); ways people can get more involved.
More detail on Northrop Grumman Action
WHAT: Northrop Grumman will be notified that it's violating 6 U.S. laws through its providing manned aircraft missile systems, and (in collaboration with Lockheed Martin) F-35 Fighter Jets and Apache attack helicopters, all to a country credibly accused of war crimes; and that it must stop doing so. We’ll also urge transition to life-sustaining products rather than instruments of war and violence.
WHEN & WHERE: Wed, June 12, at 1pm; at the Northrop Grumman facility at 1740 Wehrle Drive, Buffalo (/Amherst area), NY 14221-7032.
WHO: WNY Peace Center is organizing and inviting the community to join us in celebration of Daniel Ellsberg week (June 10-16) by assembling outside Northrop Grumman - on the Wehrle Drive sidewalk - while a contingent goes inside to inform the company of its illegal acts, and tell them they must desist. We invite you to rsvp at 716-931-3520, or victoryross9@gmail.com.
Daniel Ellsberg, who passed away just a year ago, revealed to the U.S. public the truth about Vietnam and US Nuclear Weapons. Following his example, we'll reveal and amplify the fact that Northrop Grumman are violating U.S. law, and that they must cease and desist.
WHY: The U.S. has enacted laws to prevent our enabling war crimes through arming countries credibly accused of such crimes. However, those laws are not being observed, facilitating war, humanitarian crises, and civilian death of horrific proportions in Gaza. (Targeting civilians is a crime under international law.)
With annual sales of $39.3 Billion, NORTHROP GRUMMAN is now the world's #3rd largest military company, and has broken said laws. While its sales and stockholder dividends are increasing (9% and 10% respectively this quarter), civilians continue to die as our laws to prevent war crimes complicity are ignored.
Six U.S. laws are being broken by local companies. Our allies Veterans For Peace, of which we have a local chapter - Chapter 128 - describe the laws as follows:
The Conventional Arms Transfer Policy, which prohibits U.S. weapons transfers when it’s likely they will be used by Israel to commit genocide; crimes against humanity; and grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions, including attacks intentionally directed against civilian objects or civilians protected or other serious violations of international humanitarian or human rights law, including serious acts of gender-based violence or serious acts of violence against children...
The Foreign Assistance Act, which forbids the provision of assistance to a government which "engages in a consistent pattern of gross violations of internationally recognized human rights.”
Arms Export Control Act, which says countries that receive US military aid can only use weapons for legitimate self-defense and internal security. Israel’s genocidal campaign in Gaza goes way beyond self-defense and internal security.
The U.S. War Crimes Act, which forbids grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions, including willful killing, torture or inhuman treatment, willfully causing great suffering or serious injury to body or health, and unlawful deportation or transfer, perpetrated by the Israeli Occupying Forces.
The Leahy Law, which prohibits the U.S. Government from using funds for assistance to units of foreign security forces where there is credible information implicating that unit in the commission of gross violations of human rights.
The Genocide Convention Implementation Act, which was enacted to implement U.S. obligations under the Genocide Convention, provides for criminal penalties for individuals who commit or incite others to commit genocide.