Thursday, September 12, 2024 | 4:00pm – 6:00pm | 8th Floor, Social Science Building
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Sponsors: Socio-Spatial Climate Collaborative, or (SC)2, and Climate and Community Institute
The global military industrial complex is diffuse, as are its effects. From raw materials extraction to military manufacturing to military logistics to the ultimate deployment of weapons and personnel, the war machine captures vast material and financial resources, employs millions of workers directly and indirectly, and is having a catastrophic impact on the atmosphere and communities.
This panel will feature think tank, academic, and civil society experts to discuss critical issues and chokepoints in the sprawling apparatus of war that is destroying communities like Gaza in the here-and-now while producing existential ecological damage for vulnerable communities across the world – and organizing that is happening to contest militarism and climate chaos at critical chokepoints.
Panelists will identify and discuss key sites of inputs and outputs from the military industrial complex. And they will discuss organizing opportunities to reimagine and remake economies, from the imperative to destroy and subjugate toward production and distribution systems that promote genuine security through climate and economic justice.
Featuring
- Patrick Bigger, Climate and Community Project and (SC)2, Moderator
- Khem Rogaly, Common Wealth
- Isabel Kain, Researchers against War, University of California Santa Cruz
- Vince Dijanich, Veterans for Peace
- David Vine, American University, DismantletheMIC.org, American University, DismantletheMIC.org