Mass blockade at Travis Air Force Base protests the arming of Israel

‘Stop Travis No US weapons for genocide!’ shutdown all 4 entrances 112024 by People’s Arms Embargo by The People’s Arms Embargo, Popular Resistance Travis Air Force Base, Fairfield, Calif. – On Nov. 20, as reported by police authorities, 28 people were arrested in a mass nonviolent rally and “human blockade” that blocked all four entrances into Travis Air Force Base, the state’s largest air base, to “Nonviolently stop the supply chain for weapons to Israel.” All arrestees were charged with misdemeanor “failure to comply with a lawful order” and released by 4 p.m. the same day and given January court dates. Travis has been a key air base transporting US weapons to Israel in its yearlong military offensive in Gaza, which many experts, nationally and globally, are calling a genocide.& In the early rainy morning, base personnel heading for work were confronted by about 100 demonstrators, some carrying “bloody” shroud-covered (mock) baby or child corpses because, they said, “This is what genocide looks like.” To institute a “People’s Arms Embargo,” peace protestors ultimately blocked all four Travis AFB gates, successfully putting “our bodies between these bombs and the children of Gaza by blocking workers loading these bombs onto planes headed...