General Meeting of Climate Crisis Policy & The Earth Bill Network. This meeting features updates on active campaigns in Congress, with expert guests from leading coalitions. We also work for The Earth Bill and a climate bill package, organizing by Congressional District.
Featuring Rania Beatrice, March for Science; Todd Fernandez, Earth Bill Network; Felice Stadler, Environmental Defense Fund.
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The Chinese government’s treatment of its Uyghur Muslim minority has become one of the most contentious issues in U.S.-China relations. American officials regularly denounce the Chinese leadership for what it claims is the “genocide” of the Uyghurs, while Chinese leaders deny the claims and say Washington’s obsession with the issue is obstructing normal bilateral relations.
What is the truth of the matter? Obtaining accurate, unbiased information on the treatment of the Uyghurs in China’s far-western Xinjiang Autonomous Region is difficult. Nevertheless, international human rights groups like Amnesty International and Human Rights groups have found evidence of mass detentions and other severe abuses of Uyghurs in Xinjiang. But does this constitute genocide? The evidence for this remains contested.
And granted the evidence of widespread abuses of Uyghurs in Xinjiang, how should the U.S. government and the American public respond? Investigating and condemning China’s abysmal human rights record is one thing, but making it the centerpiece of U.S. policy at the expense of other critical issues, like war avoidance and climate change, is another. Besides, Chinese leaders have regularly pointed out, America’s human rights record is hardly unblemished either.
The Committee for a Sane U.S.-China Policy has organized this webinar with experts on the Uyghur situation to address these questions and discuss appropriate U.S. responses.
Committee for a Sane U.S.-China Policy, https://www.saneuschinapolicy.org/ Email: SaneChinaPolicy@gmail.com
We talk a lot about the military-industrial complex, but what exactly is it, who makes it up, and why are they so important?
A new coalition groups opposing their local war companies has joined together to form the War Industry Resisters Network, focused on corporate control over US foreign policy.
The political influence of several weapons manufacturers has made these companies extravagantly wealthy, all while the United States has wasted trillions of dollars on military adventurism and destroyed large parts of the Middle East and Central Asia, killing at least hundreds of thousands and displacing tens of millions. The 5 major companies with the most influence and power are:
We’ll take a look at these companies, their partnership with the US government, and their influence over the US Congress and the Executive Branch, under both Democratic and Republican presidents.
Why, despite public opposition, do military budgets continue to rise and arms sales to authoritarian governments continue?
To answer these questions we’ll be joined by experts including:
More Panelists TBA.
In his farewell speech President Dwight D. Eisenhower, a man who had helped build up the military for World War II and commanded Allied Forces in Europe, famously warned:
“In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military–industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists, and will persist.”
This warning has become a reality. To take the country back from the malevolent military-industrial complex, the corporations that make it up must be countered locally.
First of a series of webinars organized by the War Industry Resisters Network.