Scranton Rally to Oppose Cluster Bombs to Ukraine

U.S. anti-war organizations will hold a rally on July 22 at 11 am at the Scranton (PA) Army
Ammunition Plant to oppose sending cluster bombs, and all weapons, into the Ukraine War.
We urge all who oppose the U.S. sending cluster bombs and any weapons to Ukraine and who
want an immediate ceasefire in the Ukraine war to join us on July 22, at 11 am at the Scranton
(PA) Army Ammunition Plant, where the production of 11,000 artillery shells a month cannot
keep up with the demand for killing.

That the U.S. would even consider sending cluster bombs into the Ukraine War, supposedly to
make up for the lack of artillery shells, is horrifying and also clarifying.

It reveals to the world just how little the U.S. cares for Ukrainian people and their futures
and the futures of the Russian people. Corporations reaping bloody profits from cluster
bombs are the only beneficiaries of this tragic policy and this war.

Cluster bombs prove how ready the U.S. is to turn Ukraine into a desperate, barely
governable country like Afghanistan or Iraq, where it also used cluster bombs, as one
more way to dominate those nations and control their resources.

Cluster bombs expose the lengths to which the U.S. government is willing to go, the
suffering that it is willing to cause, and the proxies that it is willing to exploit in its
ceaseless effort to dominate the planet.

We must note as well that precedents set by the United States on the use of cluster
bombs and the deployment of nuclear weapons to other countries are being used as
excuses by Russia to do the same, and that the last remaining taboo — that against the
use of nuclear weapons, must be upheld for the sake of continuing life on Earth.

On July 22, we will call for:

1. President Joe Biden to announce that the U.S. wants an immediate ceasefire
in Ukraine and the start of negotiations to end the war.
2. An immediate halt to all U.S. weapons shipments into the Ukraine War and
the removal of U.S. nuclear weapons and weaponized drones from Europe.

We urge President Joe Biden to attend the July 22 Scranton rally to discuss his Ukraine
war policy.

Speakers:
 David Swanson, Executive Director, World BEYOND War
 Martha Hennessy, granddaughter of Dorothy Day and formerly imprisoned
nuclear war protester.
 Debra Sweet. Director, World Can’t Wait
 Ariel Gold, Executive Director, Fellowship of Reconciliation USA
 Susan Smith, Fellowship of Reconciliation-USA
 Susan Schnall, National President, Veterans For Peace
 Gloria Caballero Roca – Professor, Bard Micro College, Care Center, Holyoke,
MA

Endorsers: Campaign for a Global Ban on Weaponized Drones, Ban Killer Drones, CODEPINK,
Fellowship of Reconciliation-USA, Bob Cushing, Chair, Gospel Nonviolence Group of the
Association of U.S. Catholic Priests, Pax Christi USA, Veterans For Peace, World BEYOND War, World Can’t Wait.

The Scranton Army Ammunition Plant is operated by General Dynamics, the fourth largest U.S.
weapons producer, with revenue of $38.5 billion in 2022.

PLEASE RSVP:
Contact:
Jack Gilroy – [email protected] – (607) 239-9605
Nick Mottern – [email protected] – (914) 806-6179