Ithaca Catholic Worker Mary Anne Grady Flores’ first letter, Feb.11, 2016 Greetings, Dear Friends— Joy swept through our cell block, Jamesville County Jail, Pod 4, Thursday, January 28. That evening some of the fifty-nine women in our Pod rushed up and knocked on my cell door. They reported the six o’clock news had shown twelve drone resisters handcuffed, sitting on […]

HANCOCK REAPER DRONE WORKERS: HONOR YOUR OATH To the men and women of the 174th Attack Wing of the NYS National Guard: Each of you, when you joined the United States Armed Forces raised your right hand and solemnly swore to uphold the United States Constitution. Article VI of that Constitution states: This Constitution, and the Laws of the United […]

A press conference was held for Mary Anne Grady Flores at 4:30 on Tuesday, Jan 19 before she was taken away to serve her six month sentence in the Jamesville Correctional Facility.      Mary Anne is a life long activist, mother and grandmother and daughter, proprietor of a small Latino catering business in Ithaca, NY.  During her absence, Mary Anne will […]

Drone Pilots’ Open Letter to President Obama, Ash Carter and John Brennan To: President Barack Obama The White House Washington, D.C. Secretary Ashton B. Carter Department of Defense Director John O. Brennan Central Intelligence Agency November 18, 2015 Dear President Obama, Secretary Carter and Director Brennan: We are former Air Force service members. We joined the Air Force to protect […]

Colonel Ann Wright’s Statement 1-19-16 As Grandmother Mary Ann Grady Flores is taken to jail today for violating an “Order of Protection” requested by the Commander of the U.S. National Guard Hancock Drone base, Syracuse, NY, I, as a retired U.S. Army Colonel with 29 years in the US military find it quite embarrassing and ludicrous that a U.S. military […]

Guest Post by Charles Piers0n; Originally published on Counterpunch.org, January 1 2016 as ‘The  Year in Drones, 2015′ 2015 was another glorious, blood-soaked year for US killer drones. One story began in 2014, but it was not until 2015 that we knew how it ended. In February 2014, the Associated Press reported that the Obama Administration was contemplating a drone […]

SU Professor, Minnie Bruce Pratt, on Drones and our work at Hancock Base, originally published in Workers World. Minnie recently spoke to Ed Kinane about her articles, so I thought it would be nice to draw attention to them here in our blog. http://www.workers.org/articles/2015/10/25/brave-new-resister-explodes-secret-u-s-drone-kills/ Spanish translation:   http://www.workers.org/articles/2015/10/27/resistente-expone-asesinatos-por-drones-eua/ http://www.workers.org/articles/2015/10/18/undrone-upstate-walk-opposes-u-s-wars/ http://www.workers.org/articles/2014/08/22/jury-acquits-anti-drone-protester/ http://www.workers.org/articles/2014/05/02/anti-drone-events-central-new-york/ http://www.workers.org/articles/2015/03/23/protests-decry-12-years-of-u-s-wars-abroad/ http://www.workers.org/articles/2014/10/09/anti-drone-protest-stop-u-s-wars/ http://www.workers.org/articles/2013/05/19/drone-base-picketed/