PRESS RELEASE Date: September 21, 2015 Contacts: John Amidon: 518-312-6442 Ellen Grady: 607-279-8303 Drones Kill Children Hancock Drone Base Gates Closed FIVE ARRESTED HOLDING HUGE “DRONES KILL CHILDREN” BANNERS ACROSS HANCOCK REAPER DRONE BASE MAIN ENTRANCE This morning, September 21, the U.N.-designated World Day of Peace, five members of the grassroots human rights coalition, Upstate (NY) Drone […]
Read moreExposing Drone Terrorism: Remarks at the 2015 Left Forum by Ed Kinane. Republished from Truthout.org Speakout I’ll begin by noting that most terrorism has not been perpetrated by Islamic-identified people. In fact, despite the relentless deluge of publicity to the contrary, Islamic-identified people commit only a fraction of the world’s terrorism. Most terrorism is large scale. In the 20th and […]
Read moreOn Ramstein: An Open Letter From US Citizens to German Chancellor Angela Merkel authored by Elsa Rassbach, Judy Bello, Nick Mottern, Ray McGovern reprinted from Truthout.org Speakout The letter was written and endorsed by Americans who stand in solidarity with the Yemeni survivors of drone strike victims on behalf of their murdered loved ones. Faisal bin Ali Jaber, the first […]
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 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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