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March to Lockheed Martin Headquarters

Submitted by davidswanson on Tue, 2007-01-09 03:19.

PeaceAction Montgomery
P.O. Box 1653, Olney, MD 20830
www.PeaceActionMC.org

In the Sprit of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Neighbors Protest at the Headquarters of the World's Leading Merchant of Death and Advocate for War

What: March to Lockheed Martin Headquarters to Demand They Stop Making Weapons That Primarily Harm Civilians and the Environment

When: January 15, 2007, Noon

Where: Meet at Davis Library, 6400 Democracy Avenue, Bethesda Maryland

Sponsor: Lockheed Martin Accountability Project of PeaceAction Montgomery and other peace organizations

Contact: Larry 240-888-8947; Steve 571-221-4120; or Victor 301-346-6501

Nearly forty years ago today Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke these words at the Riverside Church in New York: "This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation's homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into veins of people normally humane, of sending men home from dark and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and psychologically deranged, cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice and love. A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death."

In the Sprit of Dr King neighborhood activists will not be deterred by police violence and will march on Lockheed Martin Headquarters to demand:

Lockheed Martin stop manufacturing missiles and bombs that contain cluster bomblets that do not completely explode and are left behind to maim and kill civilians, primarily children.
Lockheed Martin stop manufacturing depleted uranium (DU) weapons that are poisoning our own troops and the environment in which they are used.
Lockheed Martin stop advocating for war and reveal the extent to which it promulgated the lies on which the current Iraq war was based.
Lockheed Martin stop expensive lobbying, public relations and advertising efforts and use the revenue saved to compensate the civilian victims of your defective weapons.
Lockheed Martin spend some of its profits, executive salaries and bonuses to clean up the deadly residue of its defective weapons throughout the world including cluster bombs and DU contamination in Vietnam, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq and Lebanon.
Lockheed Martin reported 2005 sales of $37.2 billion and pretax profits of nearly $3 billion. Robert J. Stevens, Lockheed Martins' CEO, received nearly $16 million in compensation in 2006. Montgomery County residents have formed the Lockheed Martin Accountability Project that will hold Lockheed Martin executives and board members responsible for the products they produce. If Lockheed Martin will not change, we do not want them as neighbors.

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