International Cancel RIMPAC Campaign convenes, mobilizes in the streets of San Diego

The Cancel RIMPAC Campaign conducted a summit and mobilized people to the streets of San Diego June 28-30 and GDC was in attendance! RIMPAC, or Rim of the Pacific exercise, are the largest maritime warfare exercises led by the US military, with 26 countries participating in weapons testing, military training, and fascist collaboration (Israel, India, Japan, the Philippines attend).

RIMPAC causes immense physical, environmental, economic, and spiritual damage to Hawaii + native Hawaiians where it’s conducted biannually (the US navy launches from San Diego). The US and its imperialist conspirators have a geostrategic interest in military and settler occupations of the Asia-Pacific (Kanaky, Hawaii, South Korea, the Philippines, etc.) as staging sites for 1. imperial expansion 2. provoking war with China.

The International Women’s Alliance, Bayan US, and Resist US-Led War along with grassroots and transnational organizations against imperialism convened the last weekend of June to mobilize against the environmental destruction, gendered violence, and threats to indigenous sovereignty worldwide that RIMPAC creates. Learning from transnational organizing will strengthen and guide our mass work at the local level.

These are photos from the mobilization June 30 on the streets of San Diego down (left) to the San Diego naval base (right). The USS midway pictured right was used to bomb and attack Vietnamese people. Organizations from Hawaii, California, Midwest, across the U.S. and the world gathered to rally and march.

Right in our backyard, in the 7 square mile Sterling Heights-Warren weapons corridor, weapons manufacturers and developers like BAE Systems, General Dynamics Land Systems, Detroit Arsenal, etc. design weaponry for the U.S. military and the IOF. How do we effectively sustain the fight against the war machine? How can we build mass organizations to fight the empire from its core?

Today the world revolutionary movement is led by the masses of the Global South and those struggling for self determination within the colonial U.S borders. These struggles are connected, and there can be no genuine self-determination for Palestine, for African nations, for Pasifika, for the world, unless the power that the U.S. holds is uprooted. We must engage in any and all forms of struggle against the enemy, we must defend all those people engaged in this fight.

A’OLE RIMPAC! RESIST NATO! STOP THE US-ZIONIST WAR MACHINE! LONG LIVE INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY!