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Syracuse Post Standard, 10/05: Anti-drone activists, limited to 'Free Speech Zone' at Hancock Air Base, protest without incident

Media Coverage of Drones and Drone Actions

2014
- Syracuse Post Standard, 9/02/14: Do you prefer ‘drones’ or ‘remotely piloted aircraft?’ ‘Fighter’ or ‘Attack’ wing?
  Q&A with 174th commander
- The Buffalo News, 9/01/14: Vietnam veteran turns to activism for redemption
- Syracuse Post Standard: Drone protesters' trials cost taxpayers more than $53,000 extra in OT, guards;
  more trials to come
- Popular Resistance: Seven Arrested At Hancock Drone Air Base Receive Outrageous Bail
- Syracuse Post Standard: Another drone protester is convicted in DeWitt court
- OOP Sentence
  - Waging Nonviolence: Anti-drone activist’s 1-year sentence will not deter movement
  - Rochester Democrat and Chronicle: Bryant: Year in jail unfair for protesting grandmother
  - No Drones New York State: Hancock Show Trial #1: Anti-Drone Protester Convicted of a Misdemeanor
  - Common Dreams: 'Perversion of Justice': Anti-Drone Activist and Grandmother Sentenced to One Year
  - Times Union of Albany: The Limits of Free Speech
  - Syracuse Post Standard: Stiff sentence for Hancock drone protester does not fit the crime (Your letters)
  - Justice Through Music: Pacifist Grandmother Jailed For Protesting Drones and Remote Murder
  - Defending Dissent
    - OOPs Get Serious
    - OOPs-a-Palooza
    - OOPs
  - Albany Times Union, 04/29: ‘Grim Reaper’ drone protester acquitted
  - Syracuse Post Standard, 04/29: U.S. Marine veteran with Grim Reaper costume acquitted of all charges
    Syracuse 1 year after drone protest
  - The Wall Street Journal, 04/29: NY veteran acquitted of drone protest charges
  - Syracuse Post Standard, 04/28: Protest over drones draws big crowd after civil rights activist
    Cornel West energizes crowd in Syracuse
  - World Can't Wait, 04/27: Making Visible the Victims of Drone Wars
  - CNY Central, 04/27: Rally calls for end to drone attacks
  - Syracuse Post Standard, 04/27: Drone Protest At Hancock Air Base
  - Syracuse Post Standard, 04/25: 174th Attack Wing to put out welcome mat for drone protesters
  - Facebook: Cornel West Highlights Spring Days of Action
  - March 25, 2014: Syracuse Post Standard, Citing 700-year-old law,
    judge overturns order barring Hancock drone protester from air base
  - March 21, 2014: Syracuse Post Standard, Drone protests at Hancock Air Base cost the protesters, too (Your letters)
  - March 12, 2014: Syracuse Post Standard, How much are drone protesters' trials costing taxpayers?
  - March 5, 2014: Syracuse Post Standard, Judge questions DeWitt justice's order
    that bars Hancock drone protester from air base
  - Facebook: Drone War Crimes Trial
  - Feb 24, 2014: Syracuse Post Standard, Remaining drone protestor to be sentenced tomorrow in DeWitt
  - Feb 14, 2014: Syracuse Post Standard, Hancock drone protesters released from jail early
  - Feb 11, 2014: Infozine (Kansas), Drone: Death by Metadata, Imprisonment by Activism
  - Jan 24, 2014: Syracuse Post Standard, DeWitt judge sentences Hancock Air Base drone protesters to jail (video)
  - Jan 24, 2014: Syracuse Post Standard, Drone protesters' trial may conclude tonight; or continue on Monday
  - Jan 23, 2014: WAER Syracuse, Drone Protesters Trial Continues in DeWitt
  - Jan 13, 2014: Tompkins Weekly, Drone Protesters Go on Trial
  - Jan 10, 2014: Rochester Democrat & Chronicle, Rochester-area pair caught up in drone trial
  - Jan 7, 2014: Report on Presse France Radio (EN)
  - Jan 7, 2014: Syracuse Post Standard, Drone protesters trial to continue Jan. 23-24
  - Jan 6, 2014: Syracuse Post Standard, Op Ed
  - Jan 6, 2014: WRVO, Trial against drone resisters continues today
  - Jan 6, 2014: Space 4 Peace Blog, Hancock Drone Trial
  - Jan 3, 2014: Popular Resistance, Sixteen Accused Served a War Crimes Indictment to Hancock Air Base
    Where the MQ9 Reaper Drones are Piloted
  - Jan 3, 2014: Drone protesters say in court they were upholding the law, not breaking it
  - Jan 2, 2014: Common Dreams Drone Trial Friday in New York
  - Dec 30, 2013: Syracuse Post Standard Central New York drone test site not welcome by military drone protesters
  - Dec 30, 2013: North Country Public Radio Money to expand drone hangar at Fort Drum
  - Nov 6, 2013: Truthout NY Judge Renews "Order of Protection" Barring Drone Protesters From Air Base
  - Oct 25, 2012: Nuclear Resistor Anti-drone protest shuts down Hancock Air Base – 17 arrested, 13 held in jail
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- Democrat and Chronicle, 02/22: Couple's drone art drives home a point
- Interactive Graphic of Drone Strikes in Pakistan: Drones Pitch
- Dronestagram: Drones View Images
- YouTube Video of Dennis Kucinich Congressional Briefing on Drones, Friday November 16, 2012
- Extended Interview with Medea Benjamin on Making Contact Radio Project: Drones, A New Death from Above
  - Very Informative, lots of food for thought.
  - Part 1 (16 min), Part 2 (26 min), Part 3 (10 min), Part 4 (10 min)
- Rochester Drone hits the Road (Video)
- Medea Benjamin Speaks on CSpan
- Ed Kinane Interview on WBAI
- Drone Trilogy (CodePink) 07/11:
  - Youtube: The Drone Landscape
  - Youtube: The Drone Economy
  - Youtube: The Drone Morality
- 06/28: John Amidon's video of people blocking the front gate at Hancock
- Indy Media Coverage of Medea Benjamin in Rochester, 07/06: :
  - BlipTV: Medea's Talk
  - BlipTV: Q&A
- 06/28: John Amidon's video of people blocking the front gate at Hancock
- 06/01: Great Photos from CodePink Protest at White House
- Youtube, 4/22: Protestors Walking to Hancock AFB prior to arrests.
- Youtube, 2/20: Drones on Trial, Back in Court 2012
- President Obama says drones a necessary tool, and some responses
  - Youtube, 1/30: Obama address Drone Strikes during 'Hangout'
  - Youtube, 2/01: Obama's Drone Questioner Responds
  - Youtube, 2/18: Young Girl Killed - She Never Saw it Coming
- # Links to YouTube: Sentencing Statements from Hancock 38 Sentencing Hearing, December 1
- Wired [Danger Room] Rare Photographs Show Ground Zero of the Drone War
- Christian Science Monitor Slideshow: Drones, America's Unmanned Predators
- # Youtube, 11/22: Unmasking the Illusion, Drones on Trial
- Youtube, 11/14: Demonstration against Drone Strikes in Yemen and tribute to 16 year old victim.
- (Many children and young people. The chants are foreign and eerie. US is criminal. Oddly disturbing.)
- # YouTube: Closing Statements from Hancock 38 Trial, November 6
- # Democracy Now!: Coverage of Hancock 38 Trial, November 5
- # Youtube, Oct, 2011: Hancock 38 Put the Drones on Trial
- # Syracuse Peace Council: Video of 4/22 Hancock Action
- # Rochester IndyMedia: Two Perspectives, Two Drones, One Demonstration and 37 Bodies
- # Drone Activists in Syracuse Talk about Activism and the Drones
- Youtube, 8/11: Code Pink Hijacks AUVSI News Conference
- # Youtube, 8/21: Syracuse Flash Mob
- # Interviews with Anti-Drone Activists at the Washington Encampment 10/06
  - # Ed Kinane, Ann Tiffany, Rea Kramer, Ann Wright
- # Photos of August Drone Making Workshop by Bruce Pease
- Drone and Clowns Storm the Bastille
- PTI, 6/17: Pakistani Politician Imran Khan talks about the Drone Strikes in Pakistan
- Russia Today: 6/08: Predator Drones, Joking over innocent deaths
- # Ed Kinane at RIT: Ground the Drones and End the Wars, Audio, Video
- Frontline, 10/16/09: War by Remote, What do you think?
- # Audio Recordings of Radio Shows
  - Interview with Phyllis Bennis
  - Peter Bianco and Annie Jacobson
  - Interview with Francis Boyle on the Drones
  - Kathy Kelly on Drones and AfPak
- What does a Drone Attack Look Like:
  - Predator Engages Taliban
  - Predator Attacks Car with Hellfire