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Elliot Swain

Elliot Swain is a Baltimore-based activist, public policy graduate student and researcher for CODEPINK.

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In a 2015 speech to the U.S. Congress, the very Congress that is so beholden to the war machine, Pope Francis asked why deadly weapons were being sold to those who inflict untold suffering on society. The answer, he said, was money, “money that is drenched in blood, often innocent blood.” (Photo: Fibonacci Blue/Flickr/cc)

As Congress Feeds the Merchants of Death, the People Must Divest

If neither major political party will stand up to this status quo, what can be done?

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