At 5:30 am on February 2, 2024, fifteen protesters blocked all entrances to Raytheon Corporation and BAE Systems in south Louisville, successfully shutting down daily operations for the day. LMPD arrested the protestors and they spent half a day in jail. Ten of the protestors plead guilty and accepted a deal while five remained and decided to take the case to trial.
This webinar welcomes three members of the Raytheon 5 to discuss their journey from arrest to spectacle of their gag-ordered trial, where all five were found guilty of trespassing on key infrastructure assets.
Presenters
Scott Rosario Mottola is a writer, organizer, and service industry worker. They are an original founding board member of Locals for Liberation and currently live in Louisville, KY.
Sonja Wilde-de Vries is a lifelong queer anti-racist and social justice organizer. She/they is a daughter of holocaust survivors. Wilde-de Vries is also a documentary film filmmaker (Out: The Making of a Revolutionary, Gay Cuba ) has published several books of poetry, including “ Planting A Garden In Baghdad “ and co-founded “Queers for Cuba” Wilde-de Vries considers Palestine to be the epi-center of Liberation for all and in her free time communes with trees and wild critters. Wilde-de Vries has been to occupied Palestine several times.
Ash Eisenmenger, is an artist who’s been involved in the movement for collective liberation in various capacities since awakening to systemic oppression through an AORTA Cooperative workshop in 2014. She dreams of living to see a world in which we’re all free.
Greg Tichenor is a social and racial justice advocate and activist. He is a public school teacher of 18 years in Louisville, KY.
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