Open Letter to Canadian Workers in Defense Technology
Laurel Thompson recently attended Canada’s largest defense industry trade show CANSEC. What she saw left her with questions for those who work in the industry.
Laurel Thompson recently attended Canada’s largest defense industry trade show CANSEC. What she saw left her with questions for those who work in the industry.
Humanitarian crises and violent conflicts take place in an interlinked, multidimensional context. Killian McCormack and Emily Gilbert challenge the idea that humanitarianism is a neutral endeavor and instead aim to reveal the “violent geographies produced through militarized humanitarianism.”
The parallels between the police-prosecution-prison system and the war system are extensive. I don’t mean the direct connections, the flow of weapons, the flow of veterans. I mean the similarities: the intentional failure to use superior alternatives, the ideology of violence used to justify horrible ideas, and the expense and corruption.
Join Omega Research Foundation and CAAT as we launch a new data repository with information on hundreds of arms fairs around the world and tens of thousands of attendees.
As some of the 12,000 expected arms dealers, politicians, military personnel, and other war profiteers arrived at the EY Center in Ottawa on June 1 2022 to attend the CANSEC arms fair, throngs of protesters were there to greet them.
What does peace mean in a world with endless war and militarism? Dianne Otto reflects on the “specific social and historical circumstances that profoundly influence how we think about [peace and war].” She pulls from feminist and queer perspectives to imagine what peace could mean independent of a war system and militarization.
US corporate media has provided glowing coverage to Paul Gray, a notorious American white nationalist fighting in Ukraine. A DHS document warns he’s not the only US fascist drawn to Kiev.
Under the watchful eye of local police, more than 100 anti-war protesters obstructed access to Canada’s largest weapons and defence fair Wednesday to condemn war profiteering.
World arms manufacturers have been raking in record profits this year thanks to conflicts around the world which have brought misery to hundreds of thousands. They will be gathering in Ottawa next week for Canada’s largest trade show.