[HCCN] Fwd: Sat June 5 Protest Aegis Launch Bath

[Judith Robbins]

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Lisa Savage <lsavage3 at gmail.com>
> Date: May 16, 2010 8:01:26 AM EDT
> To: Lisa Savage <lsavage3 at gmail.com>
> Subject: Sat June 5 Protest Aegis Launch Bath
>
> PROTEST AT
> BATH IRON WORKS, SATURDAY, JUNE 5
> On June 5th Bath Iron Works will "christen" yet another weapon of  
> mass destruction and, again for the 14th year, Maine’s activist  
> community will protest the continued construction of these weapons.
>
> Maine’s activist community will gather between 8 and 8:15 AM in  
> front of BIW’s Administration building, Washington Street, Bath.  
> At 8:30 our group will walk down Washington to the South gate, a ½  
> mile easy walk. If you don’t want to walk meet at the South Gate  
> on Washington Street. Public will be admitted at 9 AM. The ceremony  
> begins at 10 AM. We plan to have our closing circle about 10:30 AM.
>
> The ship to be christened is the USS Spruance, DDG 111, the 61st  
> Aegis Destroyer launched or christened, about half at BIW. At $1  
> billion each that represents a lot of school lunches, mental health  
> care, social services and whatever lost because of inadequate funds.
>
> The fact that our country chooses to build these weapons at all  
> says a lot about our morals, our priorities and our intentions. We  
> would rather build these ships than build schools. We would rather  
> fund these weapons rather than fund food programs. We call them  
> defensive weapons yet stock each ship with 56 Tomahawk missiles  
> each nuclear capable with a 200 KT warhead. A purely offensive  
> weapon both literally and figuratively.
>
> In the late ‘80s and early 90's there was talk of about conversion  
> yet for the past two decades we have heard nothing about conversion  
> from where it counts, General Dynamics, BIW’s parent company, nor  
> from our congressionals who vote against war supplementals yet  
> support the continued production of these weapons of mass  
> destruction. Paying for them with monies that could be used to much  
> greater effect elsewhere in Maine.
>

> Join us in Bath and let your presence be felt FMI call George &  
> Maureen Kehoe @ 763-4062 or Jack & Fay Bussell @ 772-1442
>
> jafabussell at gwi.net)
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> Lisa Savage
> CODEPINK Maine Local Coordinator
> ☮☮☮☮☮☮☮☮☮☮☮☮☮☮☮☮☮☮☮☮
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> PINKTank blogger: www.codepink4peace.org/blog
>
> CODEPINK is a women-initiated grassroots peace and social justice  
> movement working to end the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, stop new  
> wars, and redirect our resources into healthcare, education, green  
> jobs and other life-affirming activities. Won't you join us?   
> www.codepink4peace.org
>

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