Drones

Drone Attack: Media & 13-Year-Old Yemeni Boy Burned To Death

February 11, 2015 Glenn Greenwald, www.firstlook.org Educate! Canada, Drones, Murder, usa

On January 26, the New York Times claimed that “a CIA drone strike in Yemen. . . . killed three suspected Qaeda fighters on Monday.” How did they know the identity of the dead? As usual, it was in part because “American officials said.” There was not a whiff of skepticism about this claim despite the fact that “a senior American official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, declined to confirm the names of the victims” and “a C.I.A. spokesman declined to comment.” That NYT article did cite what it called “a member of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula” (AQAP), who provided the names of the three victims, one of whom was “Mohammed Toiman al-Jahmi, a Yemeni teenager whose father and brother were previously killed in American drone strikes.”

Stop Drones: ‘Time To Rehabilitate Creech’

January 30, 2015 Staff, www.shutdowncreech.blogspot.com Resist! Drones, Peace, Wars and Militarism

Join us March 4-6, 2015 at Creech Air Force Base, Indian Springs, Nevada, for a national mobilization of nonviolent resistance to shut down killer drone operations in Afghanistan, Pakistan,Yemen, Somalia, and everywhere. Sponsored by CODEPINK: Women for Peace, Nevada Desert Experience (NDE), Veterans For Peace (VFP), Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), Voices for Creative Nonviolence (VCNV) and others. (Learn more about sponsoring/supporting.) CODEPINK will also hold vigils daily on March 2nd and 3rd, prior to the official beginning of this Creech Convergence For Peace, and welcomes everyone to join them. In 2005, Creech Air Force Base secretly became the first U.S. base in the country to carry out illegal, remotely controlled assassinations using the MQ-1 Predator drones, and in 2006, the more advanced Reaper drones were added to its arsenal.

A Future In Prison

January 26, 2015 Kathy Kelly, www.thestringer.com.au Resist! Drones, Prison, Wars and Militarism

The Bureau of Prisons contacted me today, assigning me a prison number and a new address: for the next 90 days, beginning tomorrow, I’ll live at FMC Lexington, in the satellite prison camp for women, adjacent to Lexington’s federal medical center for men. Very early tomorrow morning, Buddy Bell, Cassandra Dixon, and Paco and Silver, two house guests whom we first met in protests on South Korea’s Jeju Island, will travel with me to Kentucky and deliver me to the satellite women’s prison outside the Federal Medical Center for men. In December, 2014, Judge Matt Whitworth sentenced me to three months in federal prison after Georgia Walker and I had attempted to deliver a loaf of bread and a letter to the commander of Whiteman Air Force base, asking him to stop his troops from piloting lethal drone flights over Afghanistan from within the base.

Federal Prison Sentence Begins For Anti-Drone Activist

January 23, 2015 Medea Benjamin, www.commondreams.org Resist! Drones, Peace, Wars and Militarism

On January 23, Kathy Kelly, co-coordinator of Voices for Creative Nonviolence, a campaign to end U.S. military and economic warfare, will begin a three-month jail sentence in federal prison for a protest against drones (also known as “unmanned aerial vehicles”) at Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri. I had a chance to interview her before she had to turn herself in. Medea: Can you just say why you have been particularly moved to take action against drone strikes? Kathy: I think 21st-century militarism is very frightening when you combine the military’s Joint Special Operations Forces with drone and air strike capabilities. The military doesn’t need sprawling bases anymore because they can use these new technologies to control populations and instill tremendous fear. But the use of drones creates resentment and antagonism, and continues to kill civilians.

Hancock Drone Resister Convicted On Unexpected New Charge

January 19, 2015 Upstate Coalition to Ground the Drones and End the Wars, www.PopularResistance.org Resist! Criminal Justice and Prisons, Drones, Wars and Militarism

Bonny Mahoney of Syracuse, New York was convicted by Judge David S. Gideon in DeWitt Town Court on a single count of trespass stemming from her arrest during a nonviolent protest at Hancock Air National Guard Base on April 28, 2013. When Drone Resister Bonny Mahoney arrived in court on January 15 for her jury trial on charges of obstructing governmental administration (OGA) and 2 counts of disorderly conduct (DisCon), she was arraigned on a new charge (trespass) stemming from the same event where she was arrested 17 months earlier with 30 other protesters. Her reasonable request for some time to modify her preparations was refused. Judge Gideon granted a pretrial motion by the attorneys to dismiss the OGA charge on the grounds that it didn’t specify who was obstructed, or how, and the jury was also dismissed. In the end, the only charge Ms. Mahoney was convicted of was the new trespass charge. Attorney’s Jonathon Wallace and Daire Irwin, who attended the trial to support Ms. Mahoney made arrangements to argue another motion before her sentencing hearing on February 12.

Drone Activists Cut Their Way Onto Base

January 7, 2015 John Queally, www.mintpressnews.com Resist! Drones, Law, Protest, United Kingdom (UK)

Four demonstrators opposed to Britain’s prolonged participation in foreign wars and use of armed drones were arrested on Monday after cutting through a fence at the Waddington Royal Air Force base near Lincolnshire, UK. According to the Guardian, RAF Waddington has been the growing focus of recent protests over Britain’s operation of unmanned aerial vehicles, which are controlled from the base. “Behind the rebranding, war is as brutal and deadly as it has always been with civilians killed, communities destroyed, and the next generation traumatized. And so we have come to RAF Waddington, the home of drone warfare here in the UK to say clearly and simply ‘End the Drone War’.”

Drone Protesters Arrested At RAF Base In Lincolnshire

January 6, 2015 Press Association, www.theguardian.com Resist! Drones, Great Britain, Protests

Four people campaigning against Britain’s use of armed drones have been arrested on suspicion of aggravated trespass. Lincolnshire police said two men in their early 50s and two women aged 30 and 64 were detained at RAF Waddington on Monday. Waddington, near Lincoln, has been the focus of recent protests over Britain’s operation of unmanned aerial vehicles, which are controlled from the base. In a statement issued to the BBC, a group calling itself End the Drone Wars named those involved in the protest and said they were from Oxford, Coventry, Nottingham and Leicester. In its statement, the group said: “We come to RAF Waddington to say a clear ‘No’ to the growing normalisation and acceptability of drone warfare.

US Military Preparing New Generation Of Drones

January 5, 2015 Bryan Dyne, www.wsws.org Educate! Drones, Wars and Militarism

The Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has established a research and development program, known as the Fast Lightweight Autonomy Program (FLAP) which aims to develop new types of unmanned aerial vehicles—more commonly known as drones—for urban combat operations, according to the Washington Times. DARPA is preparing to dispense several initial $5 million contracts to companies bidding to produce the new drone models sought by the US military, which will have the ability to fly inside structures, maneuver through tight spaces, and operate autonomously from human controllers, all at speeds of up to 70 kilometers per hour. The drones are specifically designed to mimic the flight capabilities of the goshawk, a bird species. Private sector firms will begin submitting bids as early as Tuesday.

Terrorism ‘Insurance’ Expires

January 4, 2015 Buddy Bell, www.vcnv.org Educate! Drones, Terrorism, Wars and Militarism

In 2002, at a time when insurance providers were unwilling to provide coverage for losses resulting from acts of terrorism, and when construction and utility companies were stalling in their development projects, Congress passed the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act (TRIA). They decided to socialize some of the financial risk, giving a federal government guarantee on insurance payouts exceeding 100 million dollars. Over the next 12 years, Presidents Bush and Obama and six different Congresses made countless decisions to increase the risk of terrorism (and of a bailout under TRIA). Of course, the most brutally profound effects of those decisions were imposed on children, women, and men in other parts of the world. Likely the least affected people were the ones complaining in the business sections of major papers last month.

CIA Document Warned Drone Assassination Program Might Backfire

December 19, 2014 WikiLeaks, www.wikileaks.org Educate! CIA, Drones, Torture

WikiLeaks today, Thursday 18 December, publishes a review by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) of its "High Value Target" (HVT) assassination programme. The report weighs the pros and cons of killing "insurgent" leaders in assassination plots. After the report was prepared, US drone strike killings rose to an all-time high. The report acknowledges that the effect of assassinating insurgent groups' leaders is sometimes lessened by organizations' command structure and succession planning. This is said to be a problem both in relation to al-Qa'ida in Iraq and to the Taliban. Assassinations by drone strike escalated to an all-time high a year after the CIA report was written.

Peace Activists Sentenced On Human Rights Day

December 11, 2014 Buddy Bell, www.popularresistance.org Resist! Criminal Justice and Prisons, Drones, Peace

On December 10, a federal magistrate found Georgia Walker, of Kansas City, MO and Chicagoan Kathy Kelly guilty of criminal trespass to a military installation as a result of their June 1 effort to deliver a loaf of bread and a citizens’ indictment of drone warfare to authorities at Whiteman AFB. Judge Matt Whitworth sentenced Kelly to three months in prison and Walker to one year of supervised probation. In testimony, Kelly, who recently returned from Afghanistan, recounted her conversation with an Afghan mother whose son, a recent police academy graduate, was killed by a drone as he sat with colleagues in a garden. “I’m educated and humbled by experiences talking with people who’ve been trapped and impoverished by U.S. warfare,” said Kelly. “The U.S. prison system also traps and impoverishes people. In coming months, I’ll surely learn more about who goes to prison and why.”

Streaming Video Drones Will Change Protests

November 15, 2014 Kevin Roose, www.fusion.net Strategize! Drones, Surveillance

Camera-equipped drones are everywhere these days. You can see them on the weekends in San Francisco’s Dolores Park, buzzing high up above picnickers and Frisbee throwers. (You can even rent them by the day, from a company like Photojojo.) At my college reunion last summer, my classmates watched in awe as a $500 DJI Phantom drone zipped over the crowd, shooting still photos and video with the GoPro attached to its underside. Easy-to-fly photo drones are becoming cheaper every day. Parrot sells a line of sub-$500 mini-drones, and the auto-flight features on 3D Robotics’ $750 IRIS+ drone have made it a favorite of hobbyists. But despite the growing low-end drone market, there still isn’t a good mid-range option for those who want to use a drone for professional-quality TV and film production, but don’t have the budget for a $50,000 custom rig. That’s about to change.

Meet The Man Who’s Building Robots For Political Resistance

October 22, 2014 George Dvorsky, www.io9.com Create! Drones, Technology, Wars and Militarism

The remarkable story of Chris Csikszentmihalyi was recently chronicled by tech journalist Luke Yoquinto in an article that now appears at the longform journalism startup The Big Roundtable. In it, Yoquinto describes how Csikszentmihalyi became a professor at the MIT Media Lab back in 2001, and how last decade, as he observed drones take over warfare and military interests dominate robotics research, he decided to fight back. But rather than take the Luddite route, he used technology to his advantage; he started to build robots to empower the powerless. To that end, he developed a fabric-wing UAV built of household products (the idea was that it would be devoid of military DNA), a four-wheeled telepresence robot designed to observe wars being fought, and a robotic kayak designed to protest at Guantanamo.

Acting Against Drones: A Global Movement For All

October 21, 2014 Anastasia Taylor, www.codepink.org Resist! CODE PINK, Drones, Palestine, Wars and Militarism

As a young American student I am appalled by the war-mongers who continue to drop bombs, and use killer drones in over seven countries over a six year period. I will not stand by as my government continues to fuel the military-industrial complex that endangers the lives of so many. As a result, I am involved with a group of young activists with CODEPINK that launched a Youth Manifesto declaring that there is No Future in War. I urge my peers to take action against the individuals that use the drone industry to fill their pockets and demand that there is greater transparency on the real motives United States engages in military interventions. We deserve better. The world deserves better. And together we can reclaim our future.

Hundreds Protest NATO Bombing That Allegedly Killed Afghan Civilians

October 15, 2014 Sarah Lazare, www.commondreams.org Resist! Afghanistan, Drones, ISIS, NATO, Wars and Militarism

Hundreds of villagers in the Afghan province of Paktia staged protests on Monday following a NATO bombing on Sunday, which witnesses say struck civilians—killing seven of them, including a child, and wounding one. The protesters brought seven dead bodies from the Udkey area of Gardez city to the capital of the province, according to Abdul Wali Sahi, deputy governor of the province. "The local villagers claim that they were collecting firewood on a mountainside when they were hit by the airstrike. As you can see, there are children among the dead bodies," Sahi told media outlets. "The Afghan nation is tired of such killings. We are going to seriously investigate this incident, and we strongly condemn such a killing, and whoever committed this crime must be held accountable for their action."

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