Some Toronto Workers Picket the Israeli Arms Supplier Pratt & Whitney

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The following was posted on the Socialist Project’s website, which shows some workers and social organizations picketing Pratt and Whitney, which supplies engines for some of the aircraft used to bomb Gaza. Only if such efforts occurred internationally and were coordinated could the current genocide have been stopped:

Toronto Picketers at Pratt and Whitney

WAR/PEACE  •  December 18, 2023  •   and 

On Tuesday morning of December 12, more than two hundred workers and union members from across the Toronto area picketed the Mississauga manufacturing plant of defence contractor Pratt & Whitney Canada. As Israel pursues its deadly assault on Gaza for a third month, the picket lines interrupted business as usual at an aerospace giant that makes engines for aircrafts that the Israeli military is using to carry out its bombing campaign against Palestinian lives and infrastructure. Encountering banners that read “Stop Arming Apartheid” and “Arms Embargo on Israel Now” as they arrived for morning shift, cars were turned away from the entrance to the factory.

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https://socialistproject.ca/2023/12/toronto-picketers-at-pratt-and-whitney/

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