in Nebraska, four people are facing felony charges for a protest at the office of the military contractor Northrop Grumman, the sixth-largest military contractor in the world. Jessica Reznicek, one of the four protesters, says she smashed the windows of Northrop Grumman’s building with a sledgehammer in order to call attention to the billions of dollars of taxpayer money funneled to the military contractor. In 2015, Northrop Grumman received $6.9 billion in government contracts—making it second only to rival military contractor Lockheed Martin, which received $11.7 billion in U.S. government contracts in 2015.
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