By: Ben Norton | August 27,
2018
Peace activists in St.
Charles, Missouri blocked the entrance to a weapons facility run by the arms
manufacturer Boeing on Monday, August 27, in protest of the joint US-Saudi war
on Yemen.
The anti-war demonstrators
barricaded the street with a bus, on which they wrote “Boeing gains from
Yemen’s pain.”
They used a bus as a symbol of
Saudi Arabia’s August 9 bombing of a school bus in Yemen, in which at least 40
children and 11 adults were killed and another 79 civilians were wounded with a
US-made bomb.
The Earth
Defense Coalition said in a press release that the “action was done in
solidarity with the people of Yemen as they are murdered by Saudi Arabia using
weapons supplied by Boeing and other weapons manufacturers.”
The group noted that the St.
Charles Boeing office manufactures “smart bomb” kits like those used by Saudi
Arabia in Yemen.
RIGHT NOW two activists are
currently LOCKED DOWN TO A SCHOOL BUS blockading the entrance to the offices of
#Boeing, near #StLouis. The action is
solidarity with the people of #Yemen.
The “lockdown” protest began
at 6 am EST and lasted for more than five hours.
Phillip Flagg, one of the
protesters on the bus, said in a statement:
To the people of Yemen I’d
like to say that we have heard your cries and that you are not alone. On the
contrary, it seems clear to me that both the Yemeni and American people share a
common enemy in the United States government and the corporations that control
it. The same corporate state that is responsible for your suffering in Yemen is
responsible for our suffering from Flint to Ferguson to the bayous of Louisiana.
Activist Amber Mae said two
protesters were arrested in the action and charged with obstructing and
resisting and are being held on $600 cash bond. “One will post bail, the
other has chosen to remain incarcerated awaiting time with a judge,” Mae said.
Heather De Mian, a citizen
journalist who uses the handle @MissJupiter1957, livestreamed video footage
and reported from the site of the protest:
Protesters with a bus blocking
entrance to Boeing plant in St Charles, Missouri https://www.pscp.tv/w/blPfHTY0MjgxNDZ8MWRSS1pnZXFubmdHQhAx99CA85d-fjPZ71PMoM9vi3v0tRjQQPVv5bsxz4VZ …
De Mian said the police parked
their cars around the bus to prevent reporters from filming it.
Protesters using a bus to
block the entrance to the Boeing Plant in St Charles, MO.
I'm told there are protesters chained together & the bus represents the school bus bombed in Yemen.https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/17/middleeast/us-saudi-yemen-bus-strike-intl/index.html … pic.twitter.com/DzPBb3IkCb
I'm told there are protesters chained together & the bus represents the school bus bombed in Yemen.https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/17/middleeast/us-saudi-yemen-bus-strike-intl/index.html … pic.twitter.com/DzPBb3IkCb
The St Charles Police have
decided to violate the First Amendment Freedom of the Press & have
strategically parked their vehicles to prevent filming of their handling of the
protesters.
Yemeni journalist Ahmad
Algohbary wrote in support of the protest, “As one of the Yemeni people, I
express my deep gratitude for those activists for standing in solidarity with
us and for blocking both entrances to Boeing Defense Building 598 in St.
Charles facility today morning.”
“The bus represents the school
bus crime by #US bomb in #Yemen,” Algohbary said.
As one of the Yemeni people, I
express my deep gratitude for those activists for standing in solidarity with
us and for blocking both entrances to Boeing Defense Building 598 in St.
Charles facility today morning.
The bus represents the school bus crime by #US bomb in #Yemen.
The bus represents the school bus crime by #US bomb in #Yemen.
“Thank you so much, from
Yemen, wrote journalist Nasser
Morshid Arrabyee. “Yemen bus will remain spot of shame and disgrace on
killers. Your bus will remain symbol of love in our debt.”
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