MiaK 🏴 🇵🇸Global uprising in defence of the welfare state: Germany edition
Thousands of civil servants took to the streets of Hannover last week, to protest against cuts to essential services in favour of defence spending.
New low reported from Germany today, where the police and government have been spying on and attempting to intimidate politically active *schoolchildren* in Kiel.
Unsere Zeit reports: "We Know Who You Are: Intelligence and Police Fail in Attempts to Intimidate School Strike Activists in Kiel"
Coming soon to a US Airforce Base near you ...
Veterans for Peace and the Center on Conscience and War are reporting large increases in contact from active duty US service members wishing to register as conscientious objectors 🥳 ✊ ☮️
Here are some of the deployment zones where soldiers have literally laid down their arms and returned home:
"It is crucial we develop an international anti-war movement to show those warmongers that we, the people, are united against imperialism, and are ready to stand together to support this anti-war movement."
A huge international anti-war conference is taking place in London this Saturday, attended by trade unions, community organisers and left-wing politicians from across the world.
Here, a teacher in France explains why it's so important:
@oiligoi Turns out there *was* a big march in Brussels 😂
More than 12,000 people attended a protest organised by World Beyond War and Stop ReArm Europe in Brussels last weekend.
https://worldbeyondwar.org/world-beyond-war-joins-stop-rearm-europe-mobilisation-in-brussels/
Leo 
< Ai riservisti vengono riconosciuti strumenti economici e occupazionali molto consistenti:
130 euro netti per ogni giornata addestrativa, premio annuale di 1.300 euro per il completamento dei richiami, aspettativa garantita sul posto di lavoro, decontribuzione totale per il datore di lavoro e tutela contro effetti occupazionali successivi al richiamo.
Non è una misura neutrale. >
https://sbilanciamoci.info/la-riforma-crosetto-della-difesa-una-riserva-permanente-per-la-guerra/
La riforma Crosetto della Difesa: una “riserva permanente” per la guerra - Sbilanciamoci - L’economia com’è e come può essere. Per un’Italia capace di futuro
I disegni di legge Crosetto i cui testi hanno cominciato a circolare – riforma dello strumento militare e rafforzamento della capacità di difesa nazionale – non riportano l’Italia alla coscrizione universale. Disegnano qualcosa di diverso: la costruzione di uno Stato sempre più predisposto a fare della guerra una certezza.
"For global political and economic elites, perpetual instability is no longer a failure to be corrected but a baseline structural condition around which modern global capitalism is choosing to organize itself."
https://fpif.org/the-rise-of-the-conflict-permanence-industry/
#EndCapitalismByAnyMeansNecessary #WelfareNotWarfare #Politics
"Made statistically invisible": The German federal government no longer publishes figures on conscientious objectors.
If they don't count them, they're not there, right?
A joint statement signed by more than a hundred people and organisations warned that the expansion of AI in military 'kill chains' risked greater civilian bloodshed and a lack of accountability.
Access Now and Amnesty International are among those citing Israeli use of AI in Gaza genocide as a warning for the future.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/tech-rights-groups-call-halt-military-ai
