No Bombs in Our Backyard (Watervliet Rally demanding no Bombs for Israel)

On Saturday, September 14, 2024, Hudson Mohawk Magazine Roaming Labor Correspondent Willie Terry attended a Mass Rally and Press Conference in Watervliet’s Seventh Street Park across from Watervliet Arsenal. They were demanding that the government stop using the arsenal to make weapons to be shipped to Israel to kill the Palestinian people. The Watervliet Arsenal was the designated manufacturer for Elbit’s $103 Million direct contract with the IDF for mortar weapons systems as recently as 2017 and is still used to store weapons that serve only to cause destruction and death around the world. In this labor segment, Willie spoke to Doug Bullock, member of the Albany Central Labor Council & Solidarity Committee of the Capital District, and Joe Lombardo, National Coordinator for the United National Anti-War Coalition, about their views of the rally and its demand.