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WHY PROTEST AT RAYTHEON? Raytheon provides the US military with drone software enabling it to attain “real-time access to actionable intelligence” gathered by drones around the world.  That’s the drone technology that helps a drone pilot in a Nevada desert decide when to fire a Hellfire missile. Raytheon also produces a 500-pound bomb called the Paveway for use by larger drones like the Predator.  It’s developing a 100-pound missile called the Monsoon to challenge the dominant role of the 100-pound Hellfire made by competitor Lockheed Martin. But Raytheon is discovering that smaller may be better, and is now developing lightweight drone bombs… It produced the Griffin, which weighs less than one-third of the 100-pound Hellfire missile.  By 2010, Raytheon had already received more than $40 million in contracts from the US Army for the Griffin. (NOTE: Raytheon describes the Griffin as a "low-collateral-damage weapon" - admitting the weapon kills innocent people.) Even smaller is the 13-pound, 2-foot long Small Tactical Munition designed, in the words of program manager Cody Trestchok, to meet an “emerging need” for missiles to be strapped onto smaller drones that have been, up until now, only used for surveillance.  Raytheon also designed its own Cobra drone to carry this little bomb. And keep an eye out for what Popular Science calls a “Supersonic Shape-Shifting Bomber.”  With a target completion date of 2020, a Raytheon unmanned bomber -- also called Switchblade – will have adjustable wings that will purportedly enable it to “loiter just outside enemy territory for more than a dozen hours and, on command, hurtle toward a target faster than the speed of sound.” Source: Excerpts from "Drone Warfare - Killing By Remote Control" by Medea Benjamin

DRONE PROTEST CHANTS Some of the chants below are specific to Raytheon, but you can change the name to General Atomics, Lockheed Martin or any of the other warmongering weapon manufacturers who profit from war! HEY HEY – HO HO – KILLER DRONES HAVE GOT TO GO NO DRONES – NO WAR – (THE MIDDLE EAST/SOMALIA/YEMEN/PAKISTAN) CAN’T TAKE NO MORE NOT A PENNY – NOT A DOLLAR – WE WONT PAY FOR HUMAN SLAUGHTER RAY-THE-ON - SHAME ON YOU! (CHILDREN/YEMENIS/AFGHANS/SOMALIS) DIE BECAUSE OF YOU RAY-THE-ON - WE’RE ON TO YOU - BUILDING BOMBS SINCE WORLD WAR TWO. 1, 2, 3, 4 - RAY-THE-ON LOVES WAR…….. 5-6-7-8 - RAY-THE-ON SELLS HATE RAY-THE-ON, WAR PIGS - BUILDING BOMBS AND KILLING KIDS RAY-THE-ON MAKES WAR TOYS - KILLING GIRLS AND KILLING BOYS KILLER DRONES ARE A CRIME, FROM PAKISTAN TO PALESTINE OBAMA’S DRONES KILL KIDS, EVEN MORE THAN BUSH’S DID HEY OBAMA HERE’S THE PLAN – STOP THE DRONES IN PAK-I-STAN YOUR DRONES SPY AND KILL, THEN YOU FOOT, US THE BILL