Join us for webinar conversation disarmament and divestment during COVID-19
Panelists:
- Dr. Cornel West
- Jeremy Scahill
- Medea Benjamin
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The Kings Bay Plowshares 7:
- Martha Hennessy, Dorothy Day’s granddaughter, Catholic Worker
- Steve Kelly, S.J., Catholic priest
- Carmen Trotta, Catholic Worker
- Clare Grady, Catholic Worker, Ithaca, NY
- Elizabeth McAlister, Catholic Worker
- Mark Colville, Catholic Worker
- Patrick O’Neill, Catholic Worker
The panel will discuss redirecting military funding to serve human needs during COVID-19. There will be a discussion on the necessity of civil resistance disarmament actions such as the Kings Bay Plowshares 7, the continued build-up of militarism, and the destitute condition of our world before and during the pandemic.
The Kings Bay Plowshares 7 are facing sentencing on May 28 and 29 for their nonviolent symbolic disarmament action at the largest nuclear sub-base in the world, on April 4th, 2018. Kings Bay Naval Station houses one-quarter of the US deployed nuclear weapons.
Watch the webinar live on CODEPINK’s YouTube channel or via Zoom https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88907949724
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