[mgj-discuss] Protest-Demonstration to end manufacture of Cluster Bombs-4

[robert weissman]

Subject:
Fwd: [Adc_dc_organizing] Protest-Demonstration to end manufacture of 
Cluster Bombs-4
From:
Sameer Dossani <sameer at 50years.org>
Date:
Wed, 20 Dec 2006 19:13:58 -0500

To:
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For those around this Friday, I think this is definitely worth supporting...

Begin forwarded message:

*From: *Nabil Mohamad <organizing at adc.org <mailto:organizing at adc.org>>
*Date: *December 20, 2006 5:48:43 PM EST
*To: *adc_dc_organizing at adc.org <mailto:adc_dc_organizing at adc.org>
*Subject: **[Adc_dc_organizing] Protest-Demonstration to end manufacture 
of Cluster Bombs-4*


  *This Lebanese Child Has Something to Say*



Info: stopclusterbombs at yahoo.com <mailto:stopclusterbombs at yahoo.com>



  *Lockheed Martin Stop Making Cluster Bombs!!!!*



Please Join Us

When: Friday, Dec 22, 9:00 AM

Where: Davis Library, 6400 Democracy, Bethesda Maryland

What: March to Lockheed Martin



Tell Lockheed Martin:

· Stop Making Cluster Bombs

· Compensate Victims

· Or Move Out of Bethesda



Robert J. Stevens Lockheed Martin’s CEO made $16 million.

Is it worth it?



*/PeaceAction Montgomery P.O. Box 1653 Olney, MD 20830 301-229-8317/*

===============================================================

*FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 19, 2006

CONTACT: Larry 240-888-8947; Steve 571-221-4120; or Victor 301-346-6501

*stopclusterbombs at yahoo.com <mailto:stopclusterbombs at yahoo.com>*



* *Lockheed Martin’s Neighbors Demand

Lockheed Martin Stop Making Cluster Bombs

Compensate Victims Or Leave The Neighborhood



/Neighbors point to civilian casualties caused by deadly ordinance; 
assail manufacture

of weaponry by Bethesda-based firm. Demonstration set for Friday at 9:00 
a.m.

/*

*Who:* Montgomery County Residents
*What:* Demand Lockheed Stop Making Cluster bombs, Compensate Victims Or 
Leave Montgomery County
*When:* Friday, December 22, 9:00 AM
*Where:* Davis Library, 6400 Democracy Blvd. and then march to Lockheed 
Martin Headquarters

*/

/BETHESDA - *Lockheed Martin’s neighbors aren't happy this holiday 
season. Lockheed Martin continues to manufacture weapons they know are 
defective and primarily harm civilians. While the world's largest 
weapons manufacturer enjoys record profits, local residents are calling 
for Lockheed Martin to stop making cluster bombs, compensate victims or 
leave Montgomery County. Montgomery county residents want Bethesda and 
Montgomery County to be known as a community of health, hope and peace, 
not home to the world’s leading merchant of death.

Cluster munitions manufactured by Lockheed Martin contain several 
hundred explosive, grenade-like bomblets. A high number of the 
submunitions do not explode on impact and become de facto landmines for 
years to come.

Although most nations refrain from the production, use and sale of 
cluster munitions, the U.S. leads the world in all three categories and 
Lockheed Martin is one of the world's largest producers. These weapons, 
initially developed and used by the Nazis, kill and maim thousands of 
civilians every year. Children are particularly vulnerable as many of 
the bomblets look like toys.

Cluster bombs, or cluster munitions, produced by Lockheed Martin have 
been extensively used in Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq and most recently 
Lebanon. In Vietnam, nearly 40 years after their use, they are still 
killing and maiming civilians. Lockheed Martin’s cluster munitions 
were defective in Vietnam and were still defective in Lebanon. It is 
tragically ironic, that Israel, who has developed cluster munitions much 
safer for use in civilian areas, apparently decided to use Lockheed 
Martin’s defective products in Lebanon because they were provided at 
very little cost.

The Governments of Norway, Sweden, the Vatican, the International Red 
Cross, the United Nations, and several hundred national and 
international organizations have called for the cessation of the 
manufacture and use of these horrendous weapons.

Lockheed Martin employs about 140,000 people worldwide and is 
principally engaged in the research, design, development and manufacture 
of the world's most lethal weaponry. The corporation reported 2005 sales 
of $37.2 billion and pretax profits of nearly $3 billion. Robert J. 
Stevens, Lockheed Martins’s CEO, received nearly $16 million in 
compensation in 2006. Lockheed Martin’s neighbors do not believe 
Lockheed Martin is working for us. Montgomery County residents have 
formed the Lockheed Martin Accountability Project that will hold 
Lockheed Martin executives and board members responsible for the 
products they produce. If Lockheed Martin will not change we do not want 
them as neighbors.

*Directions to Protest: Davis Library - 6400 Democracy - Bethesda, 
Maryland 20817

*
Lockheed Martin Corporation
6801 Rockledge Drive
Bethesda, MD 20817
U.S.A.
(301) 897-6000


*From Metro:* Take Red Line (Shady Grove) to Medical Center - Take J2 
(Montgomery Mall) Bus to Democracy - The second stop on Democracy is 
right across the street from the Library


*From Virginia:* 495 North to 270 North - Exit East (right) at Democracy 
- Library ½ mile on right


*From Gaithersburg:* 270 South Exit at Democracy - Left onto Democracy 
Library ¾ mile on right


*From Baltimore/Silver Spring:* 95 to 495 East - Exit on Old Georgetown 
Rd go right (north) - Go to the third light make a left onto Democracy - 
Library is ¼ mile down on the left.



If lost or need a ride please call Victor (301-346-6501) or Larry 
(240-888-8947)