Arms embargo

In Five Cents: Sudan's Arms Embargo Debate, we explain why the Security Council kept existing sanctions in place without extending the arms ban across the country.

We'll look at what the restrictions cover, why members disagreed over expansion, and what the decision means for weapons flows and civilian protection.

The starting point is the boundary of the existing ban.

To explore those practical challenges, you can generate two new five cents: Tracking Weapons into Darfur and Drones and Dual-Use Export Controls.

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And this week on Full Circle, we hit the streets to bring you some important information.

On tonight's show, we'll hear some sounds and voices from the Oakland People's Arms Embargo Community Picket outside the FedEx Hub in Oakland.

The group says FedEx continues to ship weapons components to Israel, even though they've been alerted by activists about the war crimes Israel is committing.

Then in the second half of the show, we'll hear from Billy X. Jennings, Black Panther Party member and memorabilia collector.

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But I'm excited to get into the first segment of the night because earlier this morning, I went out to the FedEx building in Oakland with hundreds of other people that were there to say to FedEx, stop shipping military components to Israel.

And the Oakland People's Arms Embargo says that for over two years now, the people of Gaza have faced a brutal genocide at the hands of Israel.

and that our Oakland airport has been used to fuel this genocide by shipping military cargo to Israel multiple times each week to enable this violence.

Joining us to talk about United Airlines' role in helping the US and Israel slaughter people across West Asia, and how people's movements are organizing to disrupt this partnership, are two campaigners with the Palestinian Youth Movement, Bilal El Sisi and Shatha Mah- Mahmoud.

Bilal is also with the People's Embargo for Palestine, and Shatha is also with the Arms Embargo Now Canada.

Bilal and Shatha, thank you so much for being with us today on the Electronic Intifada Podcast.

Thank you so much for having us.

And as Bilal mentioned, the COOP systems and the MGS systems that are used on the armored vehicles, um, and the screens on the F-35 fighter jets, it is integrated in every single capacity, and I think that you cannot actually overstate the role that Elbit has played in this continued genocide and bloodshed across the region.

Hmm.

And, uh, just in the past year or so, the Oakland People's Arms Embargo for Palestine was heavily campaigning around a similar, uh, airline, FedEx, uh, and its shipments of F-35 components from the Oakland International Airport here in Northern California, and now we see pressure on United for doing the same thing.

Talk about the campaign.