by John Amidon, Reposted from the Albany Times Union Sitting in my kitchen, the house is silent. I have a moment to reflect on my arrest at Creech Air Force Base. I was one of 34 men and women who tried to keep drone pilots from entering the site in Indian Springs, Nev. My friends wonder what I accomplished? Have […]
Read moreTaking Responsibility for Drone Killings President Obama and the Fog of War by Brian Terrell, reprinted from Voices for Creative Nonviolence When President Barack Obama apologized on April 23 to the families of Warren Weinstein and Giovanni Lo Porto, an American and an Italian, both hostages killed in a drone attack in Pakistan in January, he blamed their tragic deaths […]
Read moreToday at the Ithaca Catholic Worker Peace Vigil we held signs in support of the call to close the Ramstein US Drone Base in Germany. As we stood on the corner with our signs many traveling by honked at us in support and gave us the thumbs up. Tom Joyce of Ithaca said , “I’m here today because I want to show my support […]
Read moreReport Back From: Carol Baum of the Syracuse Peace Council and the Upstate Coalition to Ground the Drones and End the Wars Just wanted to let you know that today (May 21) we held a solidarity vigil to close the US Drone Base in Germany, Ramstein. We stood outside Hancock Air Base (in Syracuse), getting some (but not a lot […]
Read moreMother Earth is Weeping for her Children: The US Military Must Stop Environmental Ecocide Guest Post by Joy First of NCNR As I traveled to DC to risk arrest in an action organized by the National Campaign for Nonviolent Resistance (NCNR) I was feeling both nervous, but also knowing this is what I needed to be doing. This would be […]
Read moreWhen the Reapers Come Home A Look at the plan to Open US Domestic Airspace to Military Drones Guest Post by Barry Summers “The stuff from Afghanistan is going to come back” That was the statement from Department of Defense official Steve Pennington in the 2/13/12 LA Times, the day before the 2012 FAA Modernization and Reform Act was signed […]
Read moreEnd the Wars at Home and Abroad UNAC Conference in Secaucus, NJ May 8-10 Please come to UNAC Conference 2015 and experience a united movement for peace and justice inside this country and around the world. Ed Kinane, Judy Bello, Nick Mottern, Malachy Kilbride will join Medea Benjamin, Kathy Kelly, David Swanson, Osagyefu Sekou, Abayomi Azikiwe and Glen Ford, and […]
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German activists are engaged in drone resistance around US Ramstein base which houses a critical repeater that is necessary for drone strikes in West Asia and Africa. Ramstein has been a critical asset to US wars since the US occupation of West Germany after World War II. Now it’s drone control. There are a number of things going on in […]
Read moreTo our classmates and Members of the NYU Community: Below, please find our response to recent events at NYU Law concerning student organizing around and support for the Statement of No Confidence in Harold Koh. *** “We do not kill our cattle the way the US is killing humans in Waziristan with drones.” –Rafiq ur Rehman
Read moreNick Motten of Knowdrones.com has created a video ad to run on TV that calls out to drone pilots asking them to stop flying. The ad is quite graphic and emotionally demanding. It has stirred up some controversy and interest in areas where it has been shown so far. Here is the Ad: Airing ads is a very expensive business. […]
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