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  1. [3/5] #PineTreeActivism Events for #January30 - #Maine


    JAN 30, Fri 2:30PM – #SacoME
    General Dynamics, 291 North St, Saco, Maine
    GENERAL DYNAMICS PROTEST – Join us in Saco for our weekly rally to call attention to the fact that #GeneralDynamics in Saco builds components for the bombs being dropped on #Gaza. This plant makes guidance systems for the MK-80 series warheads that have been dropped on hospitals, schools, residential buildings and refugee camps from Gaza to Lebanon. www.mvprights.org/events


    JAN 30, Fri 3:00PM – #PortlandME
    Monument Square, 456 Congress St, Portland, Maine

    STAND WITH MINNESOTA ICE OUT!

    PORTLAND SHUT IT DOWN
    No work.
    No school.
    No shopping.

    ICE OUT!
    Service Industry Strike all day & gathering on Monument Square – 3PM.

    Portland on strike in solidarity with Minnesota & #NationalStrike


    JAN 30, Fri 3-3:30PM (& every Fri) – #BrunswickME
    156 Maine St. Opposite Walgreens, Brunswick, Maine

    VIGIL FOR PEACE – We stand together to bear witness for deeply held beliefs in justice of all kinds and to offer a source of public education not available in mainstream media.
    FMI: peaceworksbrunswickme.org/action.html


    JAN 30, Fri 3-4:30 (& every Fri) – #FreeportME
    Desert Rd/Exit 20 AND Mallett Dr/Exit 22 Overpasses, Freeport, Maine

    #FreeportRushHourBrigade – We are providing physical messaging in the real world to connect with and activate voters to demonstrate that resistance is possible. This is in coordination with Indivisible groups up and down the Rte 295 corridor.
    FMI: mobilize.us/mobilize/event/819262/

    #MaineEvents #MaineResists
    #ResistICE #NoWar #StopICETerror #ICEOut #NoWarForOil #GazaGenocide #JusticeForRenee #ICEOutForGood #WomenInBlackVigil #VeteransForPeace

  2. [2/3] #PineTreeActivism Events for #January16 - #Maine

    JAN 16, Fri 3-4:30 (& every Fri) – #FreeportME
    Desert Rd/Exit 20 AND Mallett Dr/Exit 22 Overpasses
    Freeport #RushHourBrigade – We are providing physical messaging in the real world to connect with and activate voters to demonstrate that resistance is possible. This is in coordination with Indivisible groups up and down the Rte 295 corridor.
    FMI: mobilize.us/mobilize/event/819262/

    JAN 16, Fri 3:30-4:30PM (every Wed & Fri) – #PortlandME
    Deering Ave I-295 Overpass
    #VisibilityBridgeBrigade – Join a group of like-minded activists as we engage in protest with our fellow citizens in Portland! Part of the Visibility Brigade Movement, we seek to draw attention to the unconstitutional and dangerous behavior of the Trump Administration. Just before Deering Oaks & Hadlock Field. Bring signs, banners, flags for drivers to see.
    FMI/Ground Rules/RSVP: www.dirigobrigade.org

    JAN 16, Fri 2:30PM – #SacoME
    General Dynamics, 291 North St, Saco, Maine
    #GeneralDynamics #Protest – Join us in Saco for our weekly rally to call attention to the fact that General Dynamics in Saco builds components for the bombs being dropped on #Gaza. This plant makes guidance systems for the MK-80 series warheads that have been dropped on hospitals, schools, residential buildings and refugee camps from Gaza to Lebanon. People of conscience demand that General Dynamics leave the state and that GD execs be held accountable for profiting off genocide. www.mvprights.org/events

    JAN 16, Fri 5-5:45PM (& every Fri) – #CamdenME
    Camden Village Green, Elm & Chestnut St,
    Camden Standout for Gaza! Stand with your neighbors to say no! to genocide and man made starvation of children in Gaza. We stand to support humanitarian aid to Gaza and to oppose US weapons support for Israel. FMI: www.mvprights.org/events

    #MaineEvents #MaineResists
    #ResistICE #NoWar #StopICETerror #ICEOut #NoWarForOil #JusticeForRenee
    #ICEOutForGood #MVPRights #GazaGenocide

  3. Profits of War: Top Beneficiaries of Pentagon Spending, 2020 – 2024
    Despite the United States withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021 and the scaling back of the “War on Terror,” Pentagon spending and contractor revenues have continued at extremely high levels, due in large part to the military’s focus on China as the new national security challenge. The U.S. arms industry has also profited enormously from the surge in foreign arms sales tied to the wars in Ukraine and Gaza.

    From 2020 to 2024, the last five-year period for which full statistics are available, private firms have received $2.4 trillion in contracts from the Pentagon, approximately 54% of the department’s discretionary spending of $4.4 trillion over that period.
    During those five years, $771 billion in Pentagon contracts went to just five firms: Lockheed Martin ($313 billion), RTX (formerly Raytheon, $145 billion), Boeing ($115 billion), General Dynamics ($116 billion), and Northrop Grumman ($81 billion).
    By comparison, the total diplomacy, development, and humanitarian aid budget, excluding military aid, was $356 billion. In other words, the U.S. government invested over twice as much money in five weapons companies as in diplomacy and international assistance.

    Record arms transfers have further boosted the bottom lines of weapons firms. These companies have benefited from tens of billions of dollars in military aid to Israel and Ukraine, paid for by U.S. taxpayers. U.S. military aid to Israel was over $18 billion in just the first year following October 2023; military aid to Ukraine totals $65 billion since the Russian invasion in 2022 through 2025.

    Additionally, a surge in foreign-funded arms sales to European allies, paid for by the recipient nations − over $170 billion in 2023 and 2024 alone − have provided additional revenue to arms contractors over and above the funds they receive directly from the Pentagon.

    This year’s military budget will continue to deliver a windfall to military contractors. Recently-enacted legislation pushes annual U.S. military spending beyond the $1 trillion mark.

    The trends of the past five years follow a major increase in Pentagon spending over time. Annual U.S. military spending has grown significantly this century. The Pentagon’s discretionary budget — the annual funding approved by Congress and the large majority of its overall budget — rose from $507 billion in 2000 to $843 billion in 2025 (in constant 2025 dollars), a 66% increase.
    Including military spending outside the Pentagon — primarily nuclear weapons programs at the Department of Energy, counterterrorism operations at the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and other military activities officially classified under “Budget Function 050” — total military spending grew from $531 billion in 2000 to $899 billion in 2025, a 69% increase. Legislation passed in early July 2025 adds $156 billion to this year’s total, pushing the 2025 military budget to $1.06 trillion. After taking into account this supplemental funding, the U.S. military budget has nearly doubled this century, increasing 99% since 2000.

    The shape of what President Eisenhower called the “military-industrial complex” is shifting as military technology companies are being awarded an increasing share of the Pentagon budget and gaining political power. The military-industrial complex involves the collaboration of the uniformed military and the arms industry in promoting spending that serves their bureaucratic interests and corporate bottom lines, often independently of or in contradiction to considerations of America’s actual security needs. Today, the tools of influence used by the arms industry are consistent — lobbying, millions in campaign donations, the revolving door, and others — but they are also expanding. One of the latest trends, for instance, is that Pentagon officials are now going on to work for venture capital firms investing in new military tech.

    What remains the most important issue is whether U.S. national defense strategy is aligned with the actual security environment the U.S. faces. The current cover-the-globe strategy, which stresses a quest for military dominance and the ability to intervene anywhere on the globe in short order — has not served the U.S. well in this century. The question is whether the U.S. can have a reasoned national debate on a new defense strategy that is not distorted by the influence of the wealthy weapons sector.


    #^https://quincyinst.org/research/profits-of-war-top-beneficiaries-of-pentagon-spending-2020-2024/
    PDF: #^https://quincyinst-2.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/08142811/Profits-of-War_Hartung-and-Semler_Costs-of-War_Quincy-FINAL-1.pdf

    #USA #US #american #government #money #lobbying for #MIC #Pentagon #military #warmongers #militarycapitalism #LockheedMartin #RTX #Raytheon #Boeing #GeneralDynamics #NorthropGrumman #weapons #war #proxy-wars in #israel #Palestine #Gaza #ukraine #europe #middleEast
  4. [2/4] #PineTreeActivism Events for #January9

    JAN 9, Fri 3-3:30PM (& every Fri) – #BrunswickME
    156 Maine St. Opposite Walgreens
    VIGIL FOR PEACE – We stand together to bear witness for deeply held beliefs in justice of all kinds and to offer a source of public education not available in mainstream media.
    FMI: peaceworksbrunswickme.org/action.html

    JAN 9, Fri 3-4:30 (& every Fri) – #FreeportME
    Desert Rd/Exit 20 AND Mallett Dr/Exit 22 Overpasses
    Freeport #RushHourBrigade – We are providing physical messaging in the real world to connect with and activate voters to demonstrate that #resistance is possible. This is in coordination with #Indivisible groups up and down the Rte 295 corridor.
    FMI: mobilize.us/mobilize/event/819262/

    JAN 9, Fri 3:30-4:30PM (every Wed & Fri) – #PortlandME
    Deering Ave I-295 Overpass
    #VisibilityBridgeBrigade – Join a group of like-minded activists as we engage in protest with our fellow citizens in Portland! Part of the #VisibilityBrigadeMovement, we seek to draw attention to the unconstitutional and dangerous behavior of the Trump Administration. Just before Deering Oaks & Hadlock Field. Bring signs, banners, flags for drivers to see.
    FMI/Ground Rules/RSVP: www.dirigobrigade.org

    JAN 9, Fri 3:30PM – #SacoME
    #GeneralDynamics, 291 North St
    General Dynamics Protest - Join us in Saco for our weekly rally to call attention to the fact that General Dynamics in Saco builds components for the bombs being dropped on #Gaza. This plant makes guidance systems for the MK-80 series warheads that have been dropped on hospitals, schools, residential buildings and refugee camps from Gaza to #Lebanon. People of conscience demand that General Dynamics leave the state and that GD execs be held accountable for profiting off genocide. www.mvprights.org/events

    Source:
    bsky.app/profile/pinetreeactiv

    #MaineEvents #MaineResists #ResistICE #NoWar #StopICETerror #MayDay #ICEOut #NoWarForOil #JusticeForRenee #ICEOutForGood #GazaGenocide #MVPRights #MaineVoicesForPalestinianRights

  5. Amazon, FedEx and UPS? Who is going to deliver packages now? I vote for the Girl Scouts. I trust them considerably more than I do any corporation making money from Republican domestic terrorism.

    Dear Robert, have you ever heard of a hashtag?

    #ICE #Amazon #ATT #BoozAllenHamilton #Caci #CharterCommunications #Comcast #Dell #Ecolab #FedEx #GeneralDynamics #L3Harris #Motorola #ThermoFisher #UPS #fascism

    masto.ai/@rbreich/115861454654

  6. #AngusKing

    Top Contributors, 2019 - 2024
    Contributor Total Individuals PACs

    American Israel Public Affairs Cmte [#AIPAC] $35,950 $30,950 $5,000

    Triumvirate Environmental $33,000 $33,000 $0

    #MicrosoftCorp $29,105 $16,605 $12,500

    #GeneralDynamics $27,750 $17,750 $10,000

    #Google Inc $27,500 $18,000 $9,500

    opensecrets.org/members-of-con

    #AnusKing

  7. Nowa broń USA: 10-tonowy robot, który impulsem mikrofalowym „smaży” roje dronów

    W odpowiedzi na rosnące zagrożenie ze strony zmasowanych ataków dronów, amerykański przemysł zbrojeniowy opracował nową, autonomiczną broń. Leonidas AR to 10-tonowy pojazd-robot, który zamiast pocisków i rakiet, wykorzystuje skoncentrowaną wiązkę mikrofal do natychmiastowego neutralizowania całych rojów bezzałogowców.

    System jest rezultatem współpracy dwóch firm: General Dynamics Land Systems, który dostarczył 10-tonową, gąsienicową platformę autonomiczną (TRX), oraz Epirus, który opracował samą broń mikrofalową Leonidas. W rezultacie powstał bezzałogowy, zdalnie sterowany lub w pełni autonomiczny „czołg”, zdolny do poruszania się w trudnym terenie i ochrony wojsk przed atakami z powietrza.

    Zasada działania broni przypomina kuchenkę mikrofalową, ale o wykładniczo większej mocy i precyzji. Jak donosi portal BGR, Leonidas AR celuje w nadlatujące drony i wystrzeliwuje niewidzialny impuls energii mikrofalowej (HPM – high-powered microwave). Wiązka nie niszczy dronów mechanicznie, lecz „gotuje” od wewnątrz ich wrażliwą elektronikę i obwody sterujące. Ponieważ dron jest bezużyteczny bez sprawnej elektroniki, natychmiast spada na ziemię.

    Największą zaletą systemu jest jego efektywność. Na materiale promocyjnym udostępnionym przez producenta (załączam go poniżej) widać, jak pojedynczy, cichy impuls w ciągu sekundy neutralizuje cały rój różnorodnych dronów. Broń jest precyzyjna, co ogranicza ryzyko przypadkowych strat i nie generuje odłamków jak klasyczna amunicja. Co więcej, operatorzy mogą precyzyjnie dostroić częstotliwość wiązki, aby nie zakłócała ona działania własnych, sojuszniczych maszyn.

    Leonidas AR jest wyposażony w 360-stopniowy radar, który pozwala mu samodzielnie wykrywać nadlatujące zagrożenia. W przypadku braku operatora, system może również autonomicznie namierzyć i zniszczyć wrogi rój dronów, działając jako w pełni zautomatyzowany system obrony pola walki.

    Filipińscy rybacy wyłowili z morza chińskiego drona. To podwodny „niewidzialny” zwiadowca

    #brońMikrofalowa #drony #Epirus #GeneralDynamics #HPM #LeonidasAR #news #robotWojskowy #rójDronów #technologiaWojskowa #usa

  8. “… in the five years from 2020 to 2024, 54% of the #Pentagon’s $4.4 trillion in discretionary spending went to private firms and $791 billion went to just five companies: #LockheedMartin ($313 billion), #RTX (formerly #Raytheon, $145 billion), #Boeing ($115 billion), #GeneralDynamics ($116 billion), and #NorthropGrumman ($81 billion). “

    tomdispatch.com/entering-a-gol

    #antimilitarism #Capitalism #Militaryindustrialcomplex #profits

  9. #Maine Voices for #Palestinian Rights - Weekly #Standouts & Mini-Rallies (Updated May 2025)

    HUMAN RIGHTS ARE NEVER WRONG

    "We are a group of people from #Maine and beyond who stand in solidarity with the #Palestinian people and seek to amplify their movement of liberation from occupation and #apartheid."

    #BelfastME
    Sunday - 12PM Noon
    Post Office Square

    #BrunswickME
    Thursday - 12PM Noon
    Maine St
    (in front of Tontine Mall)

    #BlueHillME
    Saturday - 12PM Noon
    Blue Hill Town Hall

    #BrunswickME
    Thursday - 12PM
    Maine Street (at Tontine Mall)

    #BangorME
    Wednesday - 12PM
    6 State Street (Kenduskag Bridge)

    #BrunswickME
    Friday - 5PM
    Maine Street
    (by Walgreens)

    #BucksportME
    Saturday - 12:30PM
    Bucksport-Verona Bridge

    #CamdenME
    Friday - 5PM
    Camden Village Green

    #EllsworthME
    Sunday - 12PM Noon
    Union River Bridge

    #FarmingtonME
    Saturday - 12PM Noon
    Post Office

    #FreeportME
    Every Other Monday - 1PM
    Main Street & West Street

    #PortlandME
    Saturday - 1PM
    Longfellow Square

    #RocklandME
    2nd + 4th Thursdays - 3PM
    Maine & Park St

    #SacoME
    Friday - 2:30PM
    #GeneralDynamics

    Source:
    mvprights.org/events#block-a15

    #FreePalestine #Gaza #WorldWarBibi #BibiIsAWarCriminal #Genocide #EndGenocide #MaineCoalitionForPalestine #MaineVoicesForPeace #PeaceActionMaine #MaineDSA #JVP #Palestine #NoWar #PeaceWorks #MaineVoicesForPalestinianRights #HumanRightsAreNeverWrong

  10. #Maine Voices for #Palestinian Rights - Weekly #Standouts & Mini-Rallies (Updated March 2025)

    HUMAN RIGHTS ARE NEVER WRONG

    "We are a group of people from #Maine and beyond who stand in solidarity with the #Palestinian people and seek to amplify their movement of liberation from occupation and #apartheid."

    #BangorME
    Wednesday - 12PM
    6 State Street (Kenduskag Bridge)

    #BelfastME
    Sunday - 12PM Noon
    Post Office Square

    #BlueHillME
    Saturday - 12PM Noon
    Blue Hill Town Hall

    #BrunswickME
    Thursday - 12PM Noon
    Maine St
    (in front of Tontine Mall)

    #BrunswickME
    Friday - 5PM
    Maine Street
    (by Walgreens)

    #BucksportME
    Saturday - 12:30PM
    Bucksport-Verona Bridge

    #CamdenME
    Friday - 5PM
    Camden Village Green

    #EllsworthME
    Sunday - 12PM Noon
    Union River Bridge

    #FarmingtonME
    Saturday - 12PM Noon
    Post Office

    #FreeportME
    Every Other Monday - 1PM
    Main Street & West Street

    #PortlandME
    Saturday - 1PM
    Longfellow Square

    #RocklandME
    2nd + 4th Thursdays - 3PM
    Maine & Park St

    #SacoME
    Friday - 2:30PM
    #GeneralDynamics

    Source:
    mvprights.org/events
    #FreePalestine #Gaza #WorldWarBibi #BibiIsAWarCriminal #Genocide #EndGenocide #MaineCoalitionForPalestine #MaineVoicesForPeace #PeaceActionMaine #MaineDSA #JVP #Palestine #Lebanon #Iran #NoWar #PeaceWorks #MaineVoicesForPalestinianRights #HumanRightsAreNeverWrong #MaineStudentsForPalestine #PSL #FreeMahmoud #FreeMahmoudKhalil

  11. #Maine Voices for #Palestinian Rights - Weekly Standouts & Mini-Rallies (Updated January 2025)

    HUMAN RIGHTS ARE NEVER WRONG

    "We are a group of people from Maine and beyond who stand in solidarity with the# Palestinian people and seek to amplify their movement of liberation from occupation and #apartheid."

    Bangor
    Wednesday - 12PM
    Harlow St & Central St

    Belfast
    Sunday - 12PM Noon
    Post Office Square

    Blue Hill
    Saturday - 12PM Noon
    Blue Hill Town Hall

    Brunswick
    Thursday - 12PM Noon
    Maine St
    (in front of Tontine Mall)

    Brunswick
    Friday - 5PM
    Maine Street
    (across from Walgreens)

    Bucksport
    Saturday - 12:30PM
    Bucksport-Verona Bridge

    Camden
    Friday - 5PM
    Camden Village Green

    Ellsworth
    Sunday - 12PM Noon
    Union River Bridge

    Farmington
    Saturday - 12PM Noon
    Post Office

    Freeport
    Every Other Monday - 1PM
    Main Street & West Street

    Portland
    Saturday - 1PM
    Longfellow Square

    Rockland
    2nd + 4th Thursdays - 3PM
    Maine & Park St

    Saco
    Friday - 2:30PM
    #GeneralDynamics

    Source:
    mvprights.org/events#block-a15
    #FreePalestine #CeasefireNow
    #Gaza #WorldWarBibi #BibiIsAWarCriminal
    #Genocide #EndGenocide
    #MaineCoalitionForPalestine
    #MaineVoicesForPeace
    #PeaceActionMaine #MaineDSA #JVP #Palestine #Lebanon #Iran #NoWar #PeaceWorks #MaineVoicesForPalestinianRights
    #HumanRightsAreNeverWrong
    #MaineStudentsForPalestine
    #PSL

  12. #Maine Voices for #Palestinian Rights - Weekly Standouts & Mini-Rallies (Updated December 2024)

    HUMAN RIGHTS ARE NEVER WRONG

    "We are a group of people from Maine and beyond who stand in solidarity with the# Palestinian people and seek to amplify their movement of liberation from occupation and #apartheid."

    Bangor
    Wednesday - 12PM
    Harlow St & Central St

    Belfast
    Sunday - 12PM Noon
    Post Office Square

    Blue Hill
    Saturday - 12PM Noon
    Blue Hill Town Hall

    Brunswick
    Thursday - 12PM Noon
    Maine St
    (in front of Tontine Mall)

    Brunswick
    Friday - 5PM
    Maine Street
    (across from Walgreens)

    Bucksport
    Saturday - 12:30PM
    Bucksport-Verona Bridge

    Camden
    Friday - 5PM
    Camden Village Green

    Ellsworth
    Sunday - 12PM Noon
    Union River Bridge

    Farmington
    Saturday - 12PM Noon
    Post Office

    Portland
    Saturday - 1PM
    Longfellow Square

    Rockland
    Thursday - 12PM Noon
    Winslow Holbrook Park

    Saco
    Friday - 2:30PM
    #GeneralDynamics

    mvprights.org/events#block-a15

    #FreePalestine #CeasefireNow
    #Gaza #WorldWarBibi #BibiIsAWarCriminal
    #Genocide #EndGenocide
    #MaineCoalitionForPalestine
    #MaineVoicesForPeace
    #PeaceActionMaine #MaineDSA #JVP #Palestine #Lebanon #Iran #NoWar #PeaceWorks #MaineVoicesForPalestinianRights
    #HumanRightsAreNeverWrong
    #MaineStudentsForPalestine
    #PSL

  13. @clpeloquin fascinant aussi de voir l’information sur General Dynamics, qui est maintenant beaucoup plus connu grâce aux protestations contre le genocide de Gaza. #generaldynamics