Keep Lockheed Martin Out of SJSU, Say No to Trump's War!

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From Mexico to Palestine, Lockheed Martin Arms Trump's Crimes

Lockheed Martin is an “aerospace and defense” company and the world's largest weapons manufacturer. The war-profiteering corporation has an interest in aiding the Trump administration's agenda of war and genocide in the Middle East, and the war at the US-Mexico border with the mass deportation of immigrants.

Lockheed Martin and the Middle East

Lockheed Martin has direct ties with the settler state of Israel and makes the company directly responsible for the siege in Gaza and the expansion of settlements in the occupied West Bank, efforts declared illegal by the International Court of Justice in the summer of 2024. Since October 7, 2023, Israel and its army have killed more than 55,000 people and children in Gaza and more than 1000 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank. This is genocide, and it was accomplished, in part, due to Lockheed Martin delivering F-35 fighter jets and Hellfire missiles. Billions of dollars in weapons and bulldozers were provided to Israel by President Trump and former President Joseph Biden to level schools, hospitals, and residential buildings. In the last year, escalations of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's holy war for a “greater Israel”, have expanded the violence to other countries such as Lebanon, Yemen, Syria, and now Iran. On June 22, Trump made direct missile strikes on Iran to topple the sovereignty of the Iranian people. Donald Trump is on the precipice of creating another pointless war in the Middle East. It will be our generation who will be sent to fight it, and Lockheed Martin will arm it in their shared mission with Trump to create a “Gold Dome” space-to-ground global surveillance and missile interception system.

Lockheed Martin and the Border

In addition, Lockheed Martin holds contracts worth billions of dollars with U.S. Customs and Border Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement, providing surveillance technology that helps to brutalize, detain, and deport immigrants in Trump’s push for mass deportations. Since his first day in office, President Trump unleashed I.C.E. agents into our communities, disappearing family members, college students, and children. Here in San Jose and the South Bay, I.C.E. has made multiple arrests of immigrants in the process of residence and unlawfully brutalized and detained a Sunnyvale father, Ulises Peña Lopez. Donald Trump says that undocumented immigrants within American borders were his target, but he made direct attacks on San Jose State by revoking the visas of more than a dozen students who were here to study at our university. Lockheed Martin is one of the largest companies in border security, backing C.P.B. with Blackhawk helicopters and warplanes to patrol an “extended border” much outside the country.

No Tech for Genocide at SJSU

Since 1967, San Jose State students have demanded “No War Games on Campus” against the university’s reckless recruiting partnerships with war profiteers such as Dow Chemical, which manufactured napalm during the deadly Vietnam War. Lockheed Martin now stands as the number #1 recruiter of SJSU alumni. For a public university to align itself with a predatory political entity that stands on the same side of the aisle as a president who wants to drown our nation in war is shameful. SJSU administration must protect students by denying Lockheed Martin access to this fall's STEM career fair and every employment event on campus. Sign the petition to say: Keep Lockheed Martin off campus! No to Trump’s War in the Middle East and No to Trump’s Border War and Mass Deportations!

To: SJSU Career Center
From: [Your Name]

To whom it may concern, students, faculty, staff, and community members are alarmed that Lockheed Martin is listed as San Jose State University’s career center partner. Lockheed Martin is an “aerospace and defense” company and the world's largest weapons manufacturer. The war-profiteering corporation has an interest in aiding the Trump administration's agenda of war and genocide in the Middle East, and the war at the US-Mexico border with the mass deportation of immigrants. Hence, students and community members demand that Lockheed Martin be removed from its status as a “partner” with the SJSU Career Center and that it be prohibited from recruiting students on campus.

Lockheed Martin has direct ties with the settler state of Israel and makes the company directly responsible for the siege in Gaza and the expansion of settlements in the occupied West Bank, efforts declared illegal by the International Court of Justice in the summer of 2024. In the last year, escalations of Prime Minister Benjamin Natenyahu's holy war for a “greater Israel”, have expanded the violence to other countries such as Lebanon, Yemen, Syria, and now Iran. On June 22, Trump made direct missile strikes on Iran to topple the sovereignty of the Iranian people. Donald Trump is on the precipice of creating another pointless war in the Middle East. It will be our generation who will be sent to fight it, and Lockheed Martin will arm it in their shared mission with Trump to create a “Gold Dome” space-to-ground global surveillance and missile interception system.

Lockheed Martin also holds contracts worth billions of dollars with U.S. Customs and Border Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement, providing surveillance technology that helps to brutalize, detain, and deport immigrants in Trump’s push for mass deportations. Donald Trump says that undocumented immigrants within American borders were his target, but he made direct attacks on San Jose State by revoking the visas of more than a dozen students who were here to study at our university. Lockheed Martin is one of the largest companies in border security, backing C.P.B. with Blackhawk helicopters and warplanes to patrol an “extended border” much outside the country.

As a public university, to align itself with a predatory political entity that stands on the same side of the aisle as a president who wants to drown our nation in war is shameful. SJSU administration must protect students by denying Lockheed Martin access to this fall's STEM career fair and every employment event on campus. We say: Keep Lockheed Martin off campus! No to Trump’s War in the Middle East and No to Trump’s Border War and Mass Deportations!