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DESCRIPTION:Tour Bay Area Merchants of Death designing, manufacturing and selling 
 weapons for genocide and continual U.S. wars. We will pick people up in 
 Berkeley, San Francisco, and at the Stanford Campus in Palo Alto, and 
 return them to the pick-up spots in the afternoon. We are estimating 
 leaving at 9am and returning at 3pm. Seats are limited; please make your 
 reservation now. You will receive a confirmation and further details when 
 you RSVP. Transportation, tour and picnic lunch provided, or caravan with 
 the tour in your own vehicle. Suggested donation to cover expenses: 
 $10-$40; no one turned away. To make your reservation write to 
 codepinksfbay@gmail.com and provide your name, email address, phone #, any 
 food allergies, and indicate your pick-up location: Berkeley, San 
 Francisco, or Palo Alto.\n-\nWith the situation in Gaza and continual U.S. 
 spending on wars instead of human needs, we are turning our focus to the 
 companies making soaring profits from designing, manufacturing and selling 
 weapons being used by Israel to commit genocide, terrorizing the world, and 
 causing climate catastrophe. To add to the injustice, these companies 
 receive lucrative contracts from the Department of Defense that are 
 financed with our taxes, making us complicit as financiers of endless wars 
 and genocide. These companies making a killing on killing, supplying Israel 
 with weapons, surveillance capabilities and political cover in the Bay 
 Area, are being tried by the Merchants of Death War Crimes Tribunal (see 
 https://merchantsofdeath.org/).\n\nWe will have mini teach-ins at each tour 
 stop, deliver Merchants of Death Tribunal subpoenas, and attempt to connect 
 with employees, offering information and encouragement for transitioning 
 their companies to peacetime industries such as clean energy and 
 transportation. There will be 3 or 4 tour stops which we are keeping 
 confidential until we gather for the tour. The tour stops are based on 
 Christian Sorensen's map of Bay Area weapons companies. Christian writes 
 "Corporations consume over half of the U.S. military budget. And six 
 corporations—Lockheed Martin, RTX, Northrop Grumman, Boeing, General 
 Dynamics, and L3Harris—dominate that half. Their 2022 revenue from 
 military contracting topped $210.5 billion. Where are these corporations 
 located? What do they produce? This map summarizes what each facility 
 currently works on and suggests peaceful, beneficial fields toward which 
 production could immediately pivot." Please watch this excellent and 
 succinct 4 min. video by the Palestinian Youth Movement summarizing the 
 concept for the tour: 
 https://x.com/BTnewsroom/status/1767684183609020482.\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2024/06/10/18867251.php
SUMMARY:Bay Area Merchants of Death Tour
LOCATION:Tour-goers will be picked up in Berkeley, SF and Palo Alto and returned to 
 pick up spots.
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2024/06/10/18867251.php
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