Drones

Law Students Protest Harold Koh As Human Rights Lecturer

April 14, 2015 Staff, www.rethinkkoh.wordpress.com Resist! Drones, human, Libya, Student Activism, Wars and Militarism

We need more principled people in government. We need people who will not advocate, as Mr. Koh has, the position that “[J]ustice for enemies ‘can be delivered through trials. Drones can also deliver.’” We need people in government who won’t make paternalistic and Orientalist generalizations about Middle Easterners by calling the U.S. diplomatic withdrawal from the Middle East in 2001 “akin to removing adult supervision from a playground populated by warring switchblade gangs.” Koh, On American Exceptionalism, 55 Stan. L. Rev. 1479, 1490-91 (2003). We need people in government who are principled enough to resign when the government it serves pursues an immoral and illegal path that jeopardizes innocent lives, rather than defend this pursuit. We need human rights lawyers in government who will refuse to sit behind a desk and make decisions based on questionable U.S. intelligence about who lives and who dies, and then compare such decisions to the law school admission process. It has not escaped our attention that Mr. Koh is regarded as one of the most respected and powerful international lawyers of our time. This does not deter us from our commitment to holding accountable members of our community who, like Mr. Koh, seem to have traded fealty to international law for a “ringside seat” at the table, at the cost of thousands of lives. The costs of remaining silent are simply too high.

Earth Day March: EPA To The Pentagon

April 14, 2015 National Campaign for Nonviolent Resistance, www.facebook.com Resist! Climate Change, Drones, Earth Day, Environment, EPA, Pentagon, Wars and Militarism

For all of you who are sick of heart over the destruction of the earth through pollution and militarization, we call on you to get involved in an action that speaks to your heart and mind, from the EPA to the Pentagon on April 22, Earth Day. [Details below.] In Climate Change Challenges by Kathy Kelly: “. . . it seems the greatest danger – the greatest violence – that any of us face is contained in our attacks on our environment. Today’s children and generations to follow them face nightmares of scarcity, disease, mass displacement, social chaos, and war, due to our patterns of consumption and pollution.” She adds this: “What’s more, the U.S. military, with its more than 7,000 bases, installations, and other facilities, worldwide, is one of the most egregious polluters on the planet and is the world’s largest single consumer of fossil fuels. If you are concerned by the challenges facing Mother Earth and want to end the killer drone program, get involved with the National Campaign for Nonviolent Resistance on April 22, Earth Day.

Former CIA Station Officer To Face Charges Over Drone Strike

April 9, 2015 Jon Boone, www.theguardian.com Resist! CIA, Drones, Law, Pakistan

The former head of the CIA in Pakistan should be tried for murder and waging war against the country, a high court judge ruled on Tuesday. Criminal charges against Jonathan Banks, the former CIA station chief in Islamabad, were ordered in relation to a December 2009 attack by a US drone which reportedly killed at least three people. Justice Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui of the Islamabad high court also ruled charges should be brought against John A Rizzo, formerly the top CIA lawyer who gave the legal green light for drone strikes. Banks’s name was first dragged into the public domain in 2010 when a tribesman called Karim Khan began legal action against the supposedly undercover spy chiefover an attack by an unmanned aircraft on his home in North Waziristan which he said killed his brother and son.

Charges Dismissed For Four Hancock Drone Protesters

April 2, 2015 Judy Bello, Ed Kinane, John Honeck, Julienne Oldfield, Andrew Schoerke, Resist! Drones, Freedom of Speech and Assembly, Wars and Militarism

On April 1, 2015 in the DeWitt Town Court, after hearing about 90 minutes of motions, Judge Robert Jokl dismissed all charges against four defendants charged following protests at Hancock Air National Guard Base “in the interest of justice.” Attorneys Jonathan Wallace, Kathy Manley and Kim Zimmer presented motions on behalf of John Honeck of Hamlin, NY, Julienne Oldfield of Syracuse, NY, Andrew Schoerke of Shaftsbury, Vermont and Mary Snyder of Vestal, NY, who were charged with trespass, two counts of disorderly conduct, and obstruction of government administration, a misdemeanor. The four defendants were among 31 arrested in a nonviolent die-in at the front gate of Hancock Base on April 28, 2013 following a weekend drone conference in Syracuse. Seventy nine year old Jack Gilroy, who was charged in the same protest, served three months in jail following a jury trial last summer. Other protesters will be tried on charges stemming from this same event in June. This dismissal follows our march 19 “big books” action at Hancock’s main gate in which seven protesters were arrested with similar charges. They will be arraigned in late April.

Grandmother Serves Time For Trying To Stop Killer Drones

April 1, 2015 Joy First, www.popularresistance.org Resist! Criminal Justice and Prisons, Drones, Wars and Militarism

MAUSTON, WI – Bonnie Block, a Madison, WI grandmother and long-time peace activist, was found guilty of trespassing in a jury trial in the Juneau County Courthouse on Wednesday, April 1, 2015. The penalty for the charge was a $232 fine or 5 days in the Juneau County Jail. In a moving sentencing statement, Block stated, “I can’t in good conscience pay the fine. It would be giving consent to the outcome of a legal process I believe was unfair and which sets dangerous precedents for those of us engaged in nonviolent civil resistance and seeking justice for victims of US drone warfare.” (See below for complete statement.) After sentencing Block to 5 days in jail, Judge Paul Curran told Block that he would allow her to have lunch with her husband and son before reporting to the Juneau County “Justice” Center to begin her sentence.

Vets To Drone Operators: We Will Help You Resist

March 22, 2015 Staff, www.couragetoresist.org Resist! Drones, Militarization, Wars and Militarism

Last week, veterans of the U.S. wars in Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan arrived in Nevada to join protests outside Creech Air Force Base against Drone Warfare. We were not protesting against you, the airmen (and women) who are drone operators and support personnel. We were reaching out to you because we understand the position you that you are in. We were once in that position ourselves, some of us quite recently. We know what it feels like to be caught up in strange and brutal wars not of our own making, and not clearly in the interests of our nation. We want to share some of our hard won truths, and to offer you our support. We know that drone operators and support personnel have a tough job. We understand that you are not playing video games, but rather engaging in life and death situations on a daily basis. You are not targeted and don’t have to worry about being killed and wounded. But you are human beings with feelings who suffer nonetheless. You have a conscience too.

Giant Books Shut Down Drone Base

March 20, 2015 Carol Baum, www.popularresistance.org Resist! Drones, Peace, Wars and Militarism

At 9:15 am on March 19, the 12th anniversary of the U.S.’ illegal invasion of Iraq, seven members of the Upstate Coalition to Ground the Drones and End the Wars shut the main gate of the Hancock Drone Base (near Syracuse, NY) with a giant copy of the UN Charter and three other giant books – Dirty Wars (Jeremy Scahill), Living Under Drones (NYU and Stanford Law Schools), and You Never Die Twice (Reprieve). The nonviolent activists also held a banner quoting Article 6 of the U.S. Constitution, stating that every treaty signed becomes the supreme law of the land. They brought the books to Hancock to remind everyone at the base of the signed treaties that prohibit the killing of civilians and assassinations of human beings. The group attempted yet again to deliver a citizens indictment for war crimes to the Hancock Air Base chain of command.

ACLU Seeks Transparency In Drone Killings

March 17, 2015 Matthew Spurlock, www.aclu.org Resist! Drones, Human Rights, Wars and Militarism

Targeted killings have been a central part of U.S. national security strategy for more than a decade, but the American public still knows scandalously little about who the government kills, and why. Today we're filing a new lawsuit in our continuing fight to fix that. The CIA and the military use drones to target suspected "militants," "insurgents," and "terrorists" in at least half a dozen countries. American drone strikes have killedthousands of people abroad, many of them children. The program has engenderedpervasive fear and anger against the United States in countries where the attacks frequently occur. Our government's deliberative and premeditated killings – and the many more civilian deaths from the strikes – raise profound legal and ethical questions that ought to be the subject of public debate.

Breaking: Hundreds Converge On Creech Air Force Base

March 6, 2015 CODEPINK, www.opednews.com Resist! Drones, Wars and Militarism

Hundreds of people from more than 18 states have converged at Creech Air Force Base for an event organized by the peace group CODEPINK coined #ShutDownCreech to protest the flight of killer drones from the base. Activists have created 100 tombstones with the names and ages of children murdered by US drone strikes in Pakistan and Yemen. These will be displayed along the Drone Victim Memorial Highway, aka Route 95, that runs by Creech AFB. Dozens of veterans from all over the country (most members of Veterans for Peace and Iraq Veterans Against the War) are among the activists.

Are Pilots Deserting Washington’s Remote-Control War?

March 6, 2015 Pratap Chaterjee, www.tomdispatch.com Resist! Drones, Wars and Militarism

The U.S. drone war across much of the Greater Middle East and parts of Africa is in crisis and not because civilians are dying or the target list for that war or the right to wage it just about anywhere on the planet are in question in Washington. Something far more basic is at stake: drone pilots are quitting in record numbers. There are roughly 1,000 such drone pilots, known in the trade as “18Xs,” working for the U.S. Air Force today. Another 180 pilots graduate annually from a training program that takes about a year to complete at Holloman and Randolph Air Force bases in, respectively, New Mexico and Texas. As it happens, in those same 12 months, about 240 trained pilots quit and the Air Force is at a loss to explain the phenomenon.

Gagged And Censored: Justice Not Served For Drone Protester

March 6, 2015 Bonnie Block and Joy First, www.popularresistance.org Educate! Criminal Justice, Drones, Free Speech

Bonnie said that this trial is about a constitutional free speech issue and the jury should be the ones to decide on whether she was trespassing or had a constitutional right to be on the base sharing her literature. The judge responded that deciding about constitutional issues is not up to the jury and Bonnie will not be allowed to bring that up. Bonnie will now be going to trial on April 1 without being able to offer a strong defense. Her ability to do so has been taken away by the prosecutor and the judge before the trial even begins. This happens so many times in trials for protestors and it is outrageous. We are gagged and then we are censored. As we consider this grave miscarriage of justice in Wisconsin, we realize it is all part of a bigger system of illegal actions by our government.

CNN Cable Commercial Criticizes U.S. Drone Attacks

March 3, 2015 Know Drones, www.popularresistance.org Resist! Drones, Peace, Wars and Militarism

LAS VEGAS, NV – Disturbing images of children killed and mutilated by U.S. drones are shown in a graphic and controversial television commercial now airing here on CNN and other cable networks – it is thought to be the first-ever anti-drone war commercial to appear on U.S. television. The spot is airing on CNN, MSNBC and other networks in the Las Vegas area, just a few miles from Creech Air Force Base, a major drone operating and training facility.Sponsored by KnowDrones.com, the spot began airing Feb. 28 and will run through March 6 in the Las Vegas television market. The commercial is expected to be airing in other U.S. markets soon. Major protests opposing the U.S. drone program are taking place at Creech AFB this week by peace, veterans and humanitarian groups from around the nation, including CODEPINK and Veterans for Peace.

Urgent Solidarity Action Request For Shut Down Creech

March 1, 2015 Nick Mottern, www.PopularResistance.org Resist! Drones, Wars and Militarism

On February 28, 2015, Nick Mottern of Know Drones sent an alert making an urgent solidarity request for the upcoming protest at the Creech Air Force Base. The protest is being held from March 4-6, 2015 at Creech Air Force Base, Indian Springs, Nevada, and is a national mobilization of nonviolent resistance to shut down killer drone operations in Afghanistan, Pakistan,Yemen, Somalia, and everywhere. Toby Blome, one of the organizers of Shut Down Creech, is urging that we all organize a vigil or other solidarity event for this coming Friday, March 6 when there will be a major event at Creech AFB drone base outside Las Vegas, NV. This is being done in Albuquerque, NM, as indicated below, and in Poughkeepsie, NY and Des Moines, IA. This is very last minute, but any show of solidarity and public outreach will be very important.

The Front Page Rule

February 21, 2015 Kathy Kelly, www.vcnv.org Educate! Afghanistan, Drones, Pakistan, Wars and Militarism

After a week here in FMC Lexington Satellite camp, a federal prison in Kentucky, I started catching up on national and international news via back issues of USA Today available in the prison library, and an “In Brief” item, on p. 2A of the Jan. 30 weekend edition, caught my eye. It briefly described a protest in Washington, D.C., in which members of the antiwar group Code Pink interrupted a U.S. Senate Armed Services budget hearing chaired by Senator John McCain. The protesters approached a witness table where Henry Kissinger, Madeleine Albright and George Schulz were seated. One of their signs called Henry Kissinger a war criminal. “McCain,” the article continued, “blurted out, ‘Get out of here, you low-life scum.’” At mail call, a week ago, I received Richard Clarke’s novel, The Sting of the Drone, (May 2014, St. Martin’s Press), about characters involved in developing and launching drone attacks.

IDF Expects UGVs, Robots To Play Ever-Greater Roles In Combat

February 20, 2015 Yaakov Lapin, www.jpost.com Educate! Drones, Israel, Robots, Technology, Wars and Militarism

The army will deploy new unmanned ground vehicles that can carry remote-controled weapons and sensors for surveillance missions to patrol the Gazan border this year. The Tomcar-based Guardium, produced by Israeli defense company G-NIUS Autonomous Unmanned Ground Vehicles, has spent the past six years patrolling the Gaza border, carrying out reconnaissance missions. This year, it will be replaced by a UGV called Border Patroller, which will soon enter operations. The new UGV, also produced by G-NIUS (a joint venture company established by Israel Aerospace Industries and Elbit Systems), is based on the Ford F-350 Super Duty Truck, which the army has converted into a remote-controled vehicle.

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