New Congress Amafunika Kuti Pangani Green Planet pa Mtendere

Wolemba Medea Benjamin ndi Alice Slater, Januware 8, 2019

Kuyimba kogontha kwa kung'ung'udza koyipa kuchokera kumanzere, kumanja, ndi pakati pazandale zaku US poyankha lingaliro la Trump lochotsa asitikali aku US ku Syria ndikuchepetsa chiwerengero chawo ku Afghanistan chikuwoneka kuti chachepetsa kuyesa kwake kubweretsa asitikali athu kunyumba. Komabe, m'chaka chatsopanochi, kuchotseratu malamulo akunja kwa US kuyenera kukhala m'gulu lazinthu zapamwamba pazatsopano za Congress. Monga momwe tikuwonera gulu lomwe likukulirakulira kwa Green New Deal, nthawi yafikanso ya New Peace Deal yomwe imakana nkhondo yosatha komanso chiwopsezo cha nkhondo ya nyukiliya yomwe, pamodzi ndi kusintha kwanyengo, kumabweretsa chiwopsezo chopezeka. ku dziko lathu.

Tiyenera kupindula ndikuchitapo kanthu pa mwayi woperekedwa ndi kuchoka mwadzidzidzi kwa "galu wamisala" Mattis ndi ankhondo ena ankhondo. Kusuntha kwina pakuchotsa usilikali ndizovuta zomwe sizinachitikepo pa Congression kuti athandizire Trump pankhondo yotsogozedwa ndi Saudi ku Yemen. Ndipo ngakhale malingaliro okhumudwitsa a purezidenti oti achoke pamapangano owongolera zida za nyukiliya akuyimira ngozi yatsopano, nawonso ndi mwayi.

Trump adalengeza kuti US ndi kuchoka Kuchokera ku Intermediate Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF), yomwe inakambidwa mu 1987 ndi Ronald Reagan ndi Mikhail Gorbachev, ndipo anachenjeza kuti alibe chidwi chokonzanso mgwirizano watsopano wa START womwe Barack Obama ndi Dmitry Medvedev adakambirana. Obama adalipira mtengo wokwanira kuti apeze chivomerezo cha Congression cha START, ndikulonjeza pulogalamu ya dola trilioni imodzi pazaka makumi atatu kwa mafakitale awiri atsopano a bomba la nyukiliya, ndi zida zatsopano zankhondo, zoponya, ndege ndi sitima zapamadzi kuti zipereke malipiro awo oopsa, pulogalamu yomwe ili. kupitiliza pansi pa Trump. Ngakhale kuti INF idalepheretsa US ndi Russia kuti agwiritse ntchito zida za nyukiliya zodzaza ndi bomba la 1,500 kuchokera mu zida zawo zazikulu za nyukiliya, idalephera kukwaniritsa lonjezo la 1970 US lomwe lidapangidwa mu Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) kuti. kuthetsa zida za nyukiliya. Ngakhale lero, pafupifupi zaka 50 pambuyo pa malonjezo a NPTwa, US ndi Russia zimapanga 14,000 ya mabomba a nyukiliya a 15,000 padziko lapansi.

Ndi mawonekedwe ankhondo a Trump aku US akuwoneka ngati akusokonekera, tili ndi mwayi wapam'badwo umodzi wopanga zinthu zatsopano zolimbana ndi zida. Kupambana kwakukulu kwa zida za nyukiliya ndi Pangano latsopano la Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, lomwe linakambirana ndikuvomerezedwa ndi mayiko a 122 ku UN ku 2017. ndipo adapambana okonza ake, a Kampeni Yapadziko Lonse Yothetsa Zida Zanyukiliya (ICAN), Nobel Peace Prize. Mgwirizanowu tsopano uyenera kuvomerezedwa ndi mayiko 50 kuti ukhale wolimba.

M'malo mochirikiza pangano latsopanoli, ndikuvomereza lonjezo la US 1970 NPT kuti lipanga "chikhulupiriro chabwino" kuyesetsa kuthetsa zida za nyukiliya, tikupeza malingaliro omwewo, osakwanira kuchokera kwa ambiri a Democratic kukhazikitsidwa omwe tsopano akuyang'anira Nyumbayi. Ndizodetsa nkhawa kuti Adam Smith, Wapampando watsopano wa House Armed Services Committee, amangokambirana zongochepetsa zida zathu zazikulu za nyukiliya ndikuyika malire a momwe Purezidenti angagwiritsire ntchito zida za nyukiliya, popanda ngakhale lingaliro lomwe likuchitika. kuperekedwa kubwereketsa thandizo la US pa mgwirizano woletsa kapena kulemekeza lonjezo lathu la 1970 NPT losiya zida zathu zanyukiliya.

Ngakhale US ndi mabungwe ake a NATO ndi Pacific (Australia, Japan ndi South Korea) mpaka pano akana kuchirikiza pangano loletsa, ntchito yapadziko lonse lapansi, yokonzedwa ndi ICAN, yalandira kale. zolemba ochokera m’mitundu 69, ndi kulandizidwa m'manyumba a malamulo a 19 a mayiko 50 ofunikira kuti aletse kugulitsa, kugwiritsa ntchito, kapena kuopseza kugwiritsa ntchito zida za nyukiliya, kukhala ovomerezeka mwalamulo. Mu December, Australia Labor Party analonjeza kusaina ndi kuvomereza pangano loletsa ngati litapambana pazisankho zomwe zikubwera, ngakhale kuti dziko la Australia lili membala wa mgwirizano wa zida zanyukiliya ku US. Ndipo kuyesayesa kofananako kukuchitika mkati Spain, membala wa mgwirizano wa NATO.

Chiwerengero chochulukirachulukira cha mizinda, zigawo, ndi aphungu padziko lonse lapansi adalembetsa nawo kampeni kupempha maboma kuti athandizire pangano latsopanoli. Ku US Congress, komabe, mpaka pano nthumwi zinayi zokha - Eleanor Holmes Norton, Betty McCollum, Jim McGovern, ndi Barbara Lee - ndi omwe adasaina lonjezo la ICAN kuti apeze thandizo la US kuti aletse bomba.

Monga momwe bungwe la demokalase likunyalanyaza mwayi watsopano woti athetse mliri wa nyukiliya padziko lonse lapansi, tsopano ikuyambitsa kampeni yodabwitsa ya Green New Deal kuti ipatse mphamvu United States ndi magwero amphamvu okhazikika m'zaka khumi, motsogozedwa ndi kulimbikitsa Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Mneneri Nancy Pelosi anakana malingaliro a achinyamata ambiri omwe akuchita ziwonetsero anapempha ofesi yake kukhazikitsa Komiti Yosankhidwa ya Green New Deal. M'malo mwake, Pelosi adakhazikitsa a Sankhani Komiti Yokhudza Mavuto a Zanyengo, kusowa mphamvu za subpoena ndipo motsogozedwa ndi Rep. Kathy Castor, yemwe anakana Green Deal Campaign amafuna kuti aletse mamembala onse kuti asatumikire mu Komiti yomwe adatenga zopereka kuchokera ku makampani opangira mafuta.

Mgwirizano Watsopano Wamtendere uyenera kupemphanso mamembala a Nyumbayi ndi Senate Armed Services Committees. Tiyembekezere bwanji apampando a makomitiwa, Democratic Congressman? Adam Smith kapena Senator wa Republican James Inhofe, kukhala okonda mtendere achilungamo atalandira zopereka za pa $ 250,000 kuchokera kumakampani opanga zida? Mgwirizano unayitana Wopambana kuchokera ku War Machine ikulimbikitsa mamembala onse a Congress kuti akane ndalama kuchokera kumakampani a zida, popeza amavota chaka chilichonse pa bajeti ya Pentagon yomwe imagawira mazana a mabiliyoni a madola pa zida zatsopano. Kudzipereka kumeneku ndikofunikira makamaka kwa mamembala a Makomiti Othandizira Zida Zankhondo. Palibe amene wathandizidwa ndi ndalama zambiri kuchokera kwa opanga zida zankhondo ayenera kukhala m'makomiti amenewo, makamaka pomwe Congress ikuyenera kuwunika mwachangu, lipoti lochititsa manyazi la kulephera kwa Pentagon kuchita kafukufuku chaka chatha ndi zonena zake kuti alibe kuthekera konse kutero!

Sitingathe kulekerera Congress yatsopano yolamulidwa ndi Democratic ikupitiriza kuchita bizinesi monga mwachizolowezi, ndi bajeti yankhondo yoposa $ 700 biliyoni ndi madola thililiyoni akukonzekera zida zanyukiliya zatsopano pazaka makumi atatu zikubwerazi, pamene akuvutika kupeza ndalama zothetsera vuto la nyengo. Ndi zovuta zachilendo zomwe Purezidenti Trump adasiya ku mgwirizano wanyengo wa Paris komanso mgwirizano wanyukiliya wa Iran, tiyenera kulimbikitsana mwachangu kuti tipulumutse dziko lathu ku ziwopsezo ziwiri zomwe zilipo: kuwonongeka kwanyengo komanso kuthekera kowononga zida zanyukiliya. Yakwana nthawi yoti musiye m'badwo wa nyukiliya ndi kuchoka ku makina ankhondo, kumasula mathililiyoni a madola owonongeka m’zaka khumi zikubwerazi. Tiyenera kusintha mphamvu zathu zakupha kukhala zomwe zimatichirikiza, ndikupanga chitetezo chenicheni cha dziko ndi mayiko pamtendere ndi chilengedwe chonse ndi anthu.

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Medea Benjamin ndi wotsogolera CODEPINK kwa Mtendere ndi wolemba mabuku angapo, kuphatikizapo Mkati mwa Iran: Mbiri Yeniyeni ndi Ndale za Islamic Republic.  

Alice Slater ali m'Komiti Yogwirizanitsa ya World Beyond War ndipo ndi Woimira UN wa  Nuclear Age Peace Foundation,