Kodi Mumakonda Mtendere? Dongosolo Lamagetsi Tsopano!

Wolemba Jack Gilroy, Epulo 29, 2020

Dr Martin Luther King anati: "Anthu okonda mtendere ayenera kuphunzira kukhala olongosoka bwino mofanana ndi omwe amakonda nkhondo."

Pamene magulu azachipatala padziko lonse lapansi akukonzekera kuti apeze katemera wa Covid19, opanga mtendere apeza nthawi yawo yokakamiza atsogoleri andale kuti apeze mankhwala okhudzana ndi nkhondo. Mliriwu ukhoza kukhala chosintha chosintha m'mbiri yamunthu wamakono. Sizingachitike kukhala pa abulu athu onse opita patsogolo.

Zofunika Padziko Lonse (www.chitchoolpite.org) Kafukufuku akuwonetsa kuti timagwiritsa ntchito 55.2% ya bajeti yathu yapachaka yokhudza zankhondo pomwe tikukana tsankho komanso kulumikizana ndi umphawi. Bajeti yathu yankhondo ibera anthu aku America, makamaka aku Africa aku America. Achifwamba amatha kuyimitsa ndi kudula kwakukulu pakugwiritsa ntchito ndalama pokonzekera nkhondo, kutseka mabowo olipira misonkho m'mabungwe akuluakulu, ndikupanga msonkho pamisonkho yachuma.

Awa si malingaliro atsopano. Ndimalingaliro ochita zomwe ngakhale ophunzira anga sekondale amadziwa zaka makumi zapitazo. Zonsezi zimatheka koma pokhapokha ngati mwachita zinthu mwadongosolo.

Mu 1991, zaka ziwiri kuchokera pamene nsalu yotchinga idagwa, ophunzira apamwamba ku Maine-Endwell HS kumpoto kwa New York adakonza misonkhano ya Town Hall mnyumba yawo yasekondale. Cholinga chawo chinali kukambirana momwe angagwiritsire ntchito gawo lamtendere lomwe likuyembekezeka kumapeto kwa Cold War. Pofufuza pamsonkhano wamatawuni, adapeza zolemba zomwe zikuwonetsa Pentagon ndi omwe amapanga zida zazikulu amatsutsana ndi kusintha kwachuma.

Madzulo a Town Meeting kokha Link Aviation adatumiza nthumwi kuti akambirane nkhaniyi. (Martin Marietta, tsopano Lockheed-Martin, & GE nkhondo ziwiri zakomweko sizinali ziwonetsero) Naiveté yaophunzira idayamba kutha ngati Khoma la Berlin. Tsiku lotsatira Binghamton Press ndi Sun Bulletin adalemba mawu olemba: Ana Adzawatsogolera. The Washington Post patangotha ​​izi adasindikiza nkhani pa tsamba lawo lokonza akuyamikiridwa ophunzira a MIM chifukwa cha mayitanidwe awo pazabwino kukambirana.

Zachidziwikire, wopanga zida ndi Pentagon anali ndi njira yawo. Ndi opanga zida kumadera aliwonse 435 ku United States, amapanga ntchito; amayika mkate ndi batala patebulo laogwira ku America. Chodabwitsa ndichakuti, ena mwa ophunzira omwewo omwe adakakamiza omwe amapanga zida zankhondo atha kukhala kuti ndi omwe adasinthiratu pankhondo. Kuledzera pankhondo ndiyo njira yaku America.

Kodi timasunthira motani Congress kuti izindikire matenda, osati nkhondo, ndiye cholinga chathu chachikulu? Maofesi a DRM ku Washington komanso m'maboma akunyumba atsekedwa kwa anthu. Demokalase yathu, yofooka, komanso yolowera kumapeto kwa fascism, tsopano yatha.

A Veterans for Peace of Broome County NY asonkhanitsa gulu la akatswiri odziwa bwino maphunziro kuti akumane pamsonkhano wa Zoom ndi membala wa Komiti ya Zida Zankhondo, Anthony Brindisi pa Epulo 29th ndi a New York Senators Schumer ndi Gillibrand kuti adzatsatire masiku otsatirawo.

Magulu ena amtendere ndi chilungamo padziko lonse lapansi amatha kukonza magawo a zamagetsi ndi oyimira feduro tsopano kuti athandizire kuchepetsedwa kwakukulu kwa ndalama zankhondo.

A Jack Gilroy adaphunzitsira Kutengapo gawo Boma ku Maine-Endwell High School, ku Endwell, New York zaka makumi atatu. Ndi Purezidenti wa Veterans for Peace of Broome County, NY ndipo walamula nthawi yayitali kwambiri kwa membala aliyense wa UpStateDroneAction.org gulu losagwirizana ndi zosagwirizana ndi zolakwa za US Air Force 174th Attack Wing ku Hancock drone base ku Syracuse, NY.