Coleen Rowley
Coleen Rowley
Eisenhower Media Network
Coleen Rowley is listed as an "expert" at the Eisenhower Media Network.[1]
“No Minnesota money for weapons manufacturers”
On October 12 2023, the Minnesota Peace Action Coalition rallied at the site of a new ForwardEdge ASIC LLC office. ForwardEdge is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Lockheed Martin Corporation, the world’s largest defense contractor. Amid the horrific Israeli bombing of Gaza, around 150 protesters gathered in a show of solidarity with Palestine and to demand “No Minnesota money for weapons manufacturers.”
At the park, Wyatt Miller of the MN Anti-War Committee (MN AWC) spoke, “And it’s not just federal military spending! This Lockheed Martin facility received about $1.5 million in startup funds from the state of Minnesota. Additionally, the State Board of Investment holds over $55 million in stock in Lockheed – plus millions more in securities. That money comes from retirement pensions that the state of Minnesota manages.”
Next, Natasha Dockter, a rank-and-file union member of the Minnesota Federation of Teachers Local 59 said, “Our educators don't have the resources they need to teach and must resort to crowdfunding to do things as simple as make sure they have the books their students need and are able to teach students on field trips. Meanwhile, we have companies like Lockheed Martin spending billions and receiving massive tax incentives to manufacture more weapons to kill innocent children all over the world and fight for U.S. imperialism.”
Sana Wazwaz of American Muslims for Palestine-Minnesota said that after such a stressful week for Palestinians, especially students, she was uplifted by the number of Palestinian flags and keffiyehs worn by protesters.
Annie Russell-Pribnow of the Students for a Democratic Society at the University of Minnesota was incensed over the targeting of students for jobs at the new facility, “I don't know about you, but Lockheed Martin, the largest weapons manufacturer in the world, who has immensely profited off of nothing but death and destruction, being here and using predatory tactics to recruit vulnerable young minds who could actively be making the world a better place, doesn't sit right with me.”
The last speaker, Erika Zurawski, from the Minnesota Immigrant Rights Action Committee, said, “One thing that immigrants understand is that war equals migration. The weapons that are produced to make these wars send millions of people fleeing from their homelands. Weapons equals war equals migration. There is no crisis at the border. There is no crisis of migration. The only thing that is a crisis is imperialism.”
Zurawski continued, “We have to say, down with imperialism. We have to say enough wars against oppressed people. We say that people have a right to remain in their homeland. We stand in solidarity with the Palestinian people. And we say that Palestinians have a right to resist by any means necessary and have a right to return to their homeland by any means necessary.”
Other speakers included CJ McCormick of the Climate Justice Committee, Barry Riesch from Veterans for Peace, and Coleen Rowley of Women Against Military Madness, who spoke about her involvement in a successful five-year effort, that began in 2004, to kick Lockheed Martin out of the southern suburb of Eagan.[2]
SDS
Christopher Getowicz, Students for a Democratic Society at the University of Minnesota. November 22, 2010 ·
With Jadzia Sembla, Steph Ross Taylor, Kelly O'Brien, Anna Egelhoff, Grace Cecelia and Coleen Rowley.
RootsAction endorser
RootsAction is an independent online force endorsed by Jim Hightower, Barbara Ehrenreich, Cornel West, Daniel Ellsberg, Glenn Greenwald, Naomi Klein, Bill Fletcher, Jr., Laura Flanders, former U.S. Senator James Abourezk, Coleen Rowley, and many others.[3]
“Minnesotans For Peace”
A group of at least 18 Minnesotans are expected to set off July 21, 2010, for the “National Peace Conference” in Albany NY
Many of the Minnesotans traveling to Albany were involved earlier this year in repeated efforts in both Minnesota and in Washington DC requesting Minnesota Senators Klobuchar and Franken to explain their positions as well as contacts with other Minnesota congresspersons requesting they vote against the supplemental war funding and to seek withdrawal of all troops from Afghanistan and Iraq .
- John Braun - AlliantAction and Twin Cities Peace Campaign
- Kim Doss-Smith – Women Against Military Madness
- Marie Braun - Women Against Military Madness and Twin Cities Peace Campaign
- Pat Cretilli - Women Against Military Madness
- Paul Bauer - Women Against Military Madness
- Ward Brennan - Veterans for Peace
- Maxine McNamara - Women Against Military Madness
- Polly Mann - Women Against Military Madness
- Meredith Aby - AntiWar Committee
- Sarah Martin - Freedom Road Socialist Organization/FightBack!
- Alan Dale - Iraq Peace Action Coalition
- Kristin Dooley - Mayday Books and Women Against Military Madness
- Joe Callahan - Cuba Committee
- Coleen Rowley- Burnsville and Eagan Peace Vigils
- Marcial Castro – Cuba Committee and Hands Off Honduras
- Jack Rossbach – Minnesota Campaign to Ban Landmines and Cluster Munitions
- Dehlia Jurek --Peace in Action of Taylor Falls
- Debbie Wilken --the Minnesota Peace Project.[4]
References
- ↑ Experts (accessed March 29, 2024)
- ↑ [1]
- ↑ RootsAction
- ↑ [http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php/http:/bcnews.go.com/duboard.php?az=printer_friendly&forum=160&topic_id=39686&mesg_id=39686 “Minnesotans For Peace” to travel to National Conference This Week for Peace Posted by annm4peace on Tue Jul-20-10 11:47 PM]