Fourteen of us peaceniks arrived from around Maine on August 6 at Bath Iron Works to remember Hiroshima Day when the US dopped an atomic bomb on that city followed by another one on Nagasaki on August 9, 1945.
What we saw when we arrived at the shipyard, where they build 'destroyers' for the Navy, looked like someone had dropped a bomb there. We learned that BIW (owned by General Dynamics Corp.) was destroying a big parking lot, a large building and then on the other side of the street three suitable homes were knocked down all for high-rise parking garages for the growing work force.
Maine's US Senator Angus King (a so-called Independent but always a warmonger) had made sure to extract large sums of taxpayer dollars for the company to build these new structures. With now about 7,000 workers at the shipyard more parking is needed.
The expansion is in preparations for endless war$ not only with Iran but also with Russia and China as the US-NATO vainly attempt to destroy the growing movement toward a multi-polar world and BRICS. Currently around seven new Aegis destroyers are under construction at BIW.
The recent attack on Iran that killed 170 at the Minab girls school was a 'double-tap-strike'. Cruise missiles were fired from US destroyers near the Strait of Hormuz. After the first hit the school administration called the parents and when parents came a second strike hit the school again. It's likely that one or more of the destroyers firing the missiles were built at BIW.
We held signs for an hour and while there one man repeatedly rode his hoverboard up and down Washington Street carrying a Palestinian and Veterans For Peace flag the entire 1/4 mile length of the BIW shipyard.
~ Photos and video by MB Sullivan
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