BREAKING: Five people are on the roof of the Raytheon facility in Cambridge, MA. Raytheon's parking garage has also been blockaded. We are here demanding that Raytheon stop profiting from war, genocide, and colonial violence. #FreePalestine#YemenCantWait#EndAllWars
LIVE UPDATE: The 5 people on the roof have locked to each other. We are not going anywhere.
police are on the roof; our friends are still chanting
Police are in three different huddles. Raytheon employees are in another huddle. We are telling them all to quit their jobs.
Local bakery @iggysbakery just brought protesters breakfast. Thank you!! Cambridge hates Raytheon!
Cambridge police are beginning to try to extract our friends, and are blocking what they're doing, after one friend said "you're hurting me."
At least 20 officers and a dog on the roof. Tax dollars, baby!!
They are still trying to extract our friends. They've set up curtains (including our banner) to block all lines of sight but we are yelling affirmations toward them. We're still here.
Our friends have been removed from the roof and arrested. We love them.
URGENT: Our friends are being denied their rights and being intimidated in jail. Please call the Cambridge police at 617-349-3300 to demand their release.
we are on our way to get our sweet friends out of jail
at the cambridge police station holy shit
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BREAKING. We just disrupted war profiteer and Raytheon executive @OSullivanMeghan as she taught a class about climate change at Harvard University's Kennedy School.
We continued the disruption until @OSullivanMeghan left the classroom.
Two of the banners hung from the roof read: Two of the banners read "End All Wars, End All Empires", and "Raytheon profits from death in Yemen, Palestine & Ukraine".
Raytheon is the largest producer of guided missiles in the world and is the second largest military contractor. Their headquarters is in Waltham, MA, just minutes from here.
Raytheon has made billions in profits from Israel’s occupation of Palestine, Saudi Arabia’s war on Yemen, the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan, and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. They also have numerous contracts with ICE and other border enforcement agencies around the world.