March on DOD / Weapons Manufacture Conference
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Date/Time Date(s) - 30 Nov 2011 6:30 AM - 6:00 PM
Location Madison Square Park Madison Sq. Park near the intersection of 24th and Madison
March
CONTACT: nov30action at gmail.com – Jerry Goralnick – 917-450-6301 TIME: Wednesday Nov 30, There are two marches 6:30am and 4:30pm LOCATION: For each rally we will be meeting in Madison Sq. Park near the intersection of 24th and Madison. The Conference is being held One Madison Avenue 12th Floor (Park Avenue South between 24th and 23rd streets) New York, NY 10010. VISUALS: The best visuals should be during the morning march by the main entrance on Park Avenue South – between 23rd and 24th street. INFO ON CONFERENCE: http://www.aviationweek.com/events/current/fin/index.htm
On November the 30th and December 1st Aviation Week and Credit Suisse will be holding the 7th annual Aerospace & Defense Finance Conference in NYC. At the conference 30 of the industry’s top CEOs pitch 2012 and future business plans to Wall St. as wall as present forecasts, business development plans and investment and growth strategies. Speakers from the Department of Defense will also be there as the major client of this industry. This conference comes in a critical year for the industry since on one hand most government programs face massive budget cuts, while on the other the U.S. involvement in war and military operations is growing. Bankers and War Industry profiteers are hoping the Department of Defense will not experience the same austerity measures that public programs that benefit working and poor people have.
As a movement which stands for the 99%, we do not want this group of 1%ers to be able to gather and discuss strategies of how to best make money out the misery, death, and environmental destruction that comes from war. In the morning we will march around the building in an attempt to disrupt peoples entrance into the building and stop the conference from happening. In the afternoon we will have a rally against militarism which benefits the 1% at the expense of the 99%.
“The arms industry produces failed weapons system after failed weapons system one after the other at tremendous cost and the industry continues to lay off people rather than create jobs. The 1% is wasting resources on the wrong product. Fifty-four percent of our tax dollars goes to the military industrial complex. Violence is too expensive and inefficient. There is a great movement in America to teach our children nonviolent conflict resolution and in the past century there are many examples of nonviolent struggle toppling oppression. Even though the arms industry is one of the few bases for manufacturing left in the United States we have to begin a discussion in this country about whether we want our greatest export, which often falls into the wrong hands, to be a product who’s ultimate objective is to kill people.” Jerry Goralnick
“Inside this conference Wall St, weapons manufacturers, and the US government plot and plan to make millions off the wasted lives and tax dollars of the 99% and off the destruction of the environments we live in. Out side of the conference the 99% is ready to say enough is enough. We will no longer allow them to continue this sick industry. We will resist!” Zelig Stern.
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