From Tuesday 5th November, four people will go on trial in the Magistrates Court in Brisbane Magandjin, for highlighting, through expressive political action, the war crimes of the Boeing corporation.
In January 2024, 12 folk attended the Brisbane ‘Boeing Defence Australia’ headquarters at Level 7, 150 Charlotte St. They held banners, read poetry, prayed and pasted pictures of children: a memorial to 15,000 children murdered in Gaza since the Israeli genocide commenced in October 2023. Many of these children have been killed with Boeing ballistic weapons, attack helicopters, and fighter planes.
Soon after the October bombings in Gaza, Amnesty International released pictures of 2 bomb fragments with Boeing serial numbers. These 2 bombs alone had killed 19 children and 24 adults. In response…
Boeing expedited orders worth millions of dollars of JDAM bombs to Israel.
In Brisbane, rather than supporting an investigation into war crimes, the police issued warrants for the arrest of all 12 of the Boeing disrupters. Counter Terrorism Squad raided the homes of some of these folk, each committed to complete non-harm and the politics of nonviolence, and arrested them.
Meanwhile, the real terrorists, the arms dealers of Boeing, Raytheon, Lockheed Martin and other complicit parties, sit in their high-rise offices, crunching numbers and calculating how to make more money from mass murder, when they should be the ones on trial for crimes against humanity.
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Wage Peace crews in Brisbane have been doing actions at Boeing for several years drawing out the story of what they are up to. But it has been the Gaza genocide that has really brought our attention to this corporation. Here we are at the university in 2022. We interrupted every Senate meeting in 2022. UQ is totally embroilled in the weapons industry. And here we are pasting on the window at Boeing in Alderley where they were working on the Ghost Bat project.
