Militarisation

Articles

• USA: Florida Students Confront Lawmakers on Gun Control As Thousands Walk Out
  22 February 2018, by siawi3

  “Some heard us loud and clear, others did not,” Spencer Blum, a Stoneman Douglas junior, said of the meetings with Republican and Democratic party legislators, which took place exactly one week after a 19-year-old expelled former student killed 14 students and three adult staff members with a legally purchased semi-automatic AR-15 assault rifle.

• USA: Screaming against guns’ policy
  21 February 2018, by siawi3

  Emma Gonzalez, Florida massacre’s student survivor

• USA: Texas school district threatens to suspend students who protest gun violence
  22 February 2018, by siawi3

  Students who survived the high school shooting last week are visiting the Florida state capital Wednesday to demand that lawmakers act. A superintendent in a Texas school district is warning that students will be suspended if they cause any disruptions to protest gun violence.

• USA : La liberté d’avoir des armes- Une fusillade fait deux morts et 17 blessés dans un lycée du Kentucky
  24 janvier 2018, par siawi3

  Une fusillade par semaine en milieu scolaire aux États-Unis

• USA: Martin Luther King Jr. Celebrations Overlook His Critiques of Capitalism and Militarism
  16 January 2018, by siawi3

  America’s celebrations of Martin Luther King Jr. typically focus on his civil rights activism: the nonviolent actions that led to the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. By 1987, 76 percent of Americans held a favorable view of the activist leader. But many are taught a simplified version of his life, focusing on only one of the three dimensions that defined him. During the Vietnam speech that turned the establishment against him, King railed against the “the giant triplets of racism, extreme materialism and militarism.”

• Japan - South Korea: Probe casts shadow over ‘comfort women’ deal
  27 December 2017, by siawi3

  The issue of comfort women – young Asian women who staffed wartime brothels for Japanese troops during World War II – is perhaps the most contentious legacy of Japan’s militaristic past. When the comfort-women issue first arose in the early 1990s, after South Korean democratization in 1987, renewed calls were made for compensation of individual comfort women. In response, Tokyo, together with private businesses, raised the “Asian Women’s Fund” to pay compensation to survivors, along with a signed letter of apology from Japan’s prime minister.

• USA: Message Is Clear as Trump Plays Weapons Salesman: ’Buy American...Tanks, Drones, Bombs, and Guns!’
  19 April 2018, by siawi3

  “This administration has demonstrated from the very beginning that human rights have taken a back seat to economic concerns. And the short-sightedness of a new arms export policy could have serious long-term implications.”

• Horace G. Campbell: War on terror not endless? A pan-Africa view
  7 December 2012, by siawi

  The planned winding down of the global war on terror has major implications for the peace movement internationally and cannot be carried out without vigorous engagement from all.

• USA: American Carnage
  17 February 2018, by siawi3

  If you’re looking for the tragedy in all of this, it’s to be found in the fact that the same implements of mass death used at My Lai are entirely legal to buy, sell and own in the US fifty years later. I’m too weary from watching well-meaning souls on TV who talk earnestly about gun control without admitting what we all know in some dank corner of our souls: the prime source of mass murder in this world, whether it’s in the tree-lined small towns of America or the hamlets of Viet Nam or the drone-blasted deserts of Yemen, is racism. Racism armed with napalm... Republicans and Democrats alike share the blame, and as long as it is legal for them to be bribed by ‘campaign contributions’, nothing will change.

• Sri Lanka: Rampant militarisation of state apparatus
  8 August 2014, by siawi3

  Sri Lankan army is reluctant to recover from its victory hangover, not realising that the resulting anxiety among its people threatens the relief that came at the end of the civil war. Unlike in countries where the military reigns supreme with a significant degree of autonomy, the army in Sri Lanka appears to have become an instrument for the government to control all spheres. After having survived a civil war, Sri Lanka cannot afford to allow militarisation to tear apart its precious fabric of democracy.

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