The Gathering Video Shows How War Economy is Connected to Poverty and Violence

From Repairers of the Breach (http://www.breachrepairers.org/):

November 11 was Armistice Day, rebranded as Veterans Day in the 1950s by Ronald Reagan to shift our mourning of the countless lives lost to war to a celebration of the war economy.¹

The Gathering partnered with Veterans for Peace, CODEPINK, and the Afghan Peace Volunteers to hear from Matthew Hoh, an Iraq War Veteran; Basir Bita, an Afghan grassroots activist; and Rev. Nelson Johnson of the Beloved Community Center on how the war economy has affected them personally, and how it’s connected to poverty and violence at home and abroad.

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We hope you’ll listen on your commute, while you’re making dinner, or with family and friends around your digital device to hear why the war economy is a moral issue, and what you can do to take action for peace.

And as we continue to build a #PoorPeoplesCampaign to challenge the interlocking systems of violence in America, please help us share this Movement with others and invite them to join us.

1. “Why doesn’t the US observe Armistice Day? We’re more comfortable with war than peace.” The Guardian, Nov. 11, 2014.