TO KILL A WAR MACHINE is screening Monday June 30th and on various July dates in towns as far removed as Derry (itself no stranger to Occupation) and Penzance, Bristol, London, Newcastle and towns and cities between and beyond. Since the film’s UK creators, peaceful but soon to be listed as terrorist Palestine Action, have groups in the US, Germany and Italy (with other countries sure to follow suit) it might soon be showing in your country.
If not, there are online screenings too. Don’t even dream of missing this.
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The film has some appalling scenes, it’s true, but these are neither gratuitous nor predominant. The focus is on how a group to be categorised, by UK Home Secretary Yvette Cooper, alongside Islamic State and Al Qaeda takes targeted direct action not only against companies which for profit supply Israel’s ongoing mass slaughter but against second and third tier firms which, also for profit, supply them.
Palestine Action is raising costs /lowering rewards of genocide complicity – does a Raytheon factory shut down in Derry impress you? – in some cases to levels that make such dirty work more trouble than it’s worth.
Which of course is why the UK, like other Western states, is responding with increasing levels of state repression, increasing abuses of rule of law. It’s a sign of just how effective direct action, targeted as intelligently as this, can be.
Here’s the listings screen again …
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