VFP NYC  Wednesday February 21, 2024 6:30pm ET presents Pat Elder/ The Poisoning of Gaza

 

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 Pat Elder will discuss the Military Poisoning of the people and environment of Gaza, as well as military poisoning of US troops as what many vets are doing to get compensation and medical help. 

 

 

The U.N. estimates that, as of late December, 70% of all schools in Gaza, many of which served as shelters for Palestinians fleeing Israel’s onslaught, had been severely damaged. Hundreds of mosques and churches have also been struck and almost all of Gaza’s 36 hospitals have been hit and are no longer functioning adequately. According to Human Rights Watch, Israel is using a lack of food and drinking water as a tool of warfare. We’ll examine the deadly contamination that accompanies the Israeli onslaught.

 

The thousands of Israeli and western-supplied bombs dropped on Gaza bring not just death but a toxic legacy from explosive chemicals, dust, and debris from destroyed buildings that pollute the air and the ground. Israel’s military offensive in Gaza is leaving a new layer of toxic chemicals in Gaza’s soil, adding to those left behind from wars it has waged before.

 

Pat Elder is a member of World BEYOND War’s Board of Directors. He is the author of Military Recruiting in the United States, and the director of the National Coalition to Protect Student Privacy, an organization that works to counter the militarization of America’s high schools. Elder was a co-founder of the DC Antiwar Network and a long-time member of the Steering Committee of the National Network Opposing the Militarization of Youth. His articles have appeared in Truth Out, Common Dreams, Alternet, L.A. Progressive, Sojourner’s Magazine, and U.S. Catholic Magazine. He has been instrumental in helping to convince more than a thousand schools to take steps to protect student data from recruiters. Elder helped to organize a successful series of demonstrations to shut down the Army Experience Center, a first-person shooter video arcade in a Philadelphia suburb. Pat Elder worked to pressure the U.N. Committee on the Rights of the Child to call on the Obama Administration to adhere to the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict regarding military recruiting practices in the schools. Elder hold a master’s in government from the University of Maryland.

 

Pat’s recent article: Poisoning Gaza - Peace & Planet News (peaceandplanetnews.org)