David Hartsough is a legendary peace activist who first amassed an FBI file in the mid 1950s at the age of 15 when he organized a vigil outside a Nike missile plant where he grew up near West Chester, Pennsylvania.
On November 20, Hartsough was one of 75 protesters who tried to block weapons shipments to Israel from the Travis Air Force Base in Fairfield, California, an hour north of San Francisco.
Sponsored by CODEPINK, WORLD BEYOND WAR, Veterans for Peace and 21 other peace groups, the protest was timed for “World Children’s Day,” which was appropriate since more than 12,000 children—and 700 infants—have been confirmed killed by Israel in the war in Gaza.
Twenty-eight of the protesters were arrested after forming a “human blockade” across all four entrances into Travis Air Force Base to to “interrupt” the flow of U.S. weapons that are being transported from Travis AFB to Israel.
These weapons are being used in Gaza by Israel to carry out its ongoing military campaign against Palestine, considered by many experts to be a genocide. (more...)
Peace Activists Try and Block Arms Supplies to Israel
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