Members of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom used red poker chips as a symbol of global military spending, redistributing them as they saw fit. Photograph: Mir Grebäck von Melen/WILPF
The Guardian: Peace activists at The Hague decry $1.8tn global military spend in 2014
Female peacemakers at a conference marking the centenary of the 1915 Congress of Women want money diverted away from weapons and into public services.
There is no mistaking Anne Scott’s opinion of nuclear weapons. Standing outside a conference hall in The Hague on a chilly Tuesday lunchtime, the secretary of the Scottish branch of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) sported a bright blue T-shirt with the words “NHS Not Trident” defiantly emblazoned on the front.
Scott, from Edinburgh, had taken a handful of red poker chips from a table and placed them on a tarpaulin, marked “health”, as a symbolic gesture of where she would like government spending on the military to be diverted.
WNU Editor: Only $1.8 trillion spent last year?
Don't knock it
ReplyDeleteWW2 solved FDR's unemployment problem that he could not solve.
and we do have another clueless Democrat in the White House.
1.8 trillion, so they finally got someone to buy three F-35s.
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