Drones

Drone Lobby Visits Congress & CODE PINK Shadows Them

April 11, 2014 Anne Meador, www.dcmediagroup.us Resist! Drones, Wars and Militarism

Manufacturers of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, also known as drones, visited members of Congress today on Capitol Hill. Corporate members of the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) put on a drone expo for representatives from the House Congressional Unmanned Systems Caucus. Protestors from CODEPINK were on hand to greet AUVSI representatives as they entered the Rayburn Building. CODEPINK’s co-founder Medea Benjamin has been an outspoken critic of the Obama’s administration’s use of drones. She recently wrote a book on the subject called Drone Warfare: Killing by Remote Control.

Opposition Movement To Drones Growing

April 9, 2014 Kate Chandley, www.nationofchange.org Resist! Drones, Popular Protest

Illegal US drone strikes continue (the Long War Journal says there have been 8 drones strikes in Yemen so far this year), but efforts to curb the use of killer drones have made remarkable headway this year. While the faith-based community has taken far too long to address the moral issues posed by remote-controlled killing, on February 13, the World Council of Churches--the largest coalition of Christian churches--came out in opposition to the use of armed drones. The Council said that the use of armed drones poses a “serious threat to humanity” and condemned, in particular, US drone strikes in Pakistan. This is a breakthrough in the religious community, and should make it easier for individual denominations to make similar pronouncements, as the Church of the Brethren has.

Giant Portrait Shows Drone Operators People Aren’t “Bug Splats”

April 8, 2014 Ashley Feinberg, www.creativeresistance.org Resist! Creative Resistance, Drones, Protest

From CreativeResistance.org and #NotABugSplat: where a drone operator’s sitting, one blurry blob of pixels looks almost exactly like the next blurry blob of pixels, which is how the term “bug splat” worked its way into modern military slang as a way of referring to a kill. Now, though, a giant art installation in Pakistan wants to show drone operators that its people are anything but anonymous white blobs—and that that “bug splat” belongs to an actual human being. The giant portrait was installed by an artist collective in the region of Khyber Pukhtoonkhwa in Pakistan, an area where drone attacks occur on a fairly regular basis. The next time a drone operator looks down, he or she will be seeing the face of an innocent child instead of clusterings of white, shapeless blobs. And even if the installation gets pulled, the portrait was apparently designed to be big enough to register on satellite imagery, ensuring it at least has some staying power on online mapping systems.

Killer Drone Protestors Converge On Creech AFB Base Today

April 7, 2014 Staff, www.popularresistance.org Resist! Drones, Protest

Anti-drone activists from throughout the county, including some driving in cars decorated with “Unarmed Civilians” and “Stop Killer Drones” signs, will participate in five days of protest at Creech Air Force Base, where pilots direct killer Reaper and Predator drones around the world .The Creech AFB actions run Monday, April 7 – Friday, April 11. Protests begin Monday/April 7 at Creech AFB (one hour north of Las Vegas in Indian Springs), and will run all week from 6-8 a.m. and 3-5 p.m. Among the direct actions are a simulated “Drone Attack on a Wedding Party”; “A Funeral Procession,” with white masks, coffins and a giant Mourning Mother puppet; “ONE NATION UNDER SURVEILLANCE” (illegal spying, domestic & foreign); “Call Congress Day for Drone Transparency,” “Fly A Kite, Not a Drone” (colorful kite display); “Celebrate Whistleblowers”; and, on the last day, Friday, April 11, a large convergence of drone resisters will hang “1,000 Drones,” around the military base property (each with names of innocent drone victims).

Court Refuses To Rule On Legality Of Extra-Judicial Killings By Drones

April 6, 2014 Staff, www.ccrjustice.org Educate! Drones, Human Rights

A federal district court today dismissed a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the targeted killing of three American citizens by U.S. drones in Yemen in 2011. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) filed the case on behalf of the families of Anwar Al-Aulaqi, Samir Khan, and Al-Aulaqi’s 16-year-old son, Abdulrahman. The ACLU National Security Project Director Hina Shamsi said: "The court's view that it cannot provide a remedy for extrajudicial killings when the government claims to be at war, even far from any battlefield, is profoundly at odds with the Constitution. It is precisely when individual liberties are under such grave threat that we need the courts to act to defend them. In holding that violations of U.S. citizens' right to life cannot be heard in a federal courtroom, the court abdicated its constitutional role."

Drone Strikers Say Government Unfairly Denies Them Jury Trials

March 31, 2014 Denny Walsh and Sam Stanton, www.sacbee.com Resist! Criminal Justice and Prisons, Drones

At least 18 have been arrested for trespassing since Oct. 30, 2012, some more than once. One was an 88-year-old Lutheran minister, arrested nearly three weeks ago on Ash Wednesday, who was also a U.S. Marine Corps veteran – he served on the honor guard aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay, where the treaty was signed marking Japan’s surrender and the end of World War II. The federal government has begun filing misdemeanor charges of unauthorized penetration of a military installation. The charge carries the potential of up to six months in prison and a fine of up to $5,000, although federal prosecutors have assured judges they have no intention of trying to put any of the protesters behind bars. The government has succeeded so far in persuading two judges to deny protesters jury trials, something the defendants contend deprives them of their Sixth Amendment rights . . .

US Human Rights Record Criticized In UN Report

March 29, 2014 Matthew Weaver, www.theguardian.com Educate! Drones, Guantanamo Bay, Human Rights, NSA, Torture

The UN has delivered a withering verdict on the US's human rights record, raising concerns on a series of issues including torture, drone strikes, the failure to close Guantánamo Bay and the NSA's bulk collection of personal data. The report was delivered by the UN's human rights committee in an assessment of how the US is complying with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights [ICCPR], which has been in force since the mid 1970s. The UN committee urged the US to overhaul its surveillance activities to ensure they complied with US law and conformed to US obligations under the ICCPR. In its 11-page report, the committee also criticised the US for failing to prosecute senior members of its armed forces and private contractors involved in torture and targeted killings.

US Attorney Locks Door To Avoid Anti-Drone Activists

March 25, 2014 Staff, www.PopularResistance.org Resist! Drones, Video, Wars and Militarism

Members of NCNR first brought a criminal complaint against President Obama, CIA Director John Brennan, and others at the CIA who are involved in the drone program to the US Attorney’s office in Alexandria last May when Neil MacBride held the office of US Attorney. After numerous attempts to follow-up on the complaint, no action was apparently taken. A copy of the criminal complaint was then sent to the new US Attorney Dana Boente last week. On Tuesday March 25 six members of NCNR followed up at the US Attorney’s office in person to demand action as drone attacks continue to murder innocent people around the world. NCNR maintains that the Obama Administration and the CIA drone program are in violation of U.S. and international law. When the six activists arrived at the US Attorney’s office at 11:00 am they discovered the doors to the public building were locked. A security officer, John Buffington, came out and told them that they would not be allowed into the building.

Drone Protesters Arrested In Iowa

March 20, 2014 Regina Zilbermints, www.desmoinesregister.com Resist! Drones, Wars and Militarism

Seven activists were arrested Monday outside the Iowa Air National Guard base in Des Moines protesting the U.S. military’s use of drones. The attendance of about 30 was smaller than a Saturday rally at the base that attracted 100 people. But it was the only event that included arrests in an annual week of anti-war rallies and meetings organized by the Catholic Workers and Veterans for Peace. The Iowa Air National Guard’s 132nd Fighter Wing is in the process of transitioning from maintaining and flying a fleet of F-16s to missions involving remotely piloted aircraft. “Iowa is known for being the Field of Dreams. This is making Iowa into killing fields,” said Catholic Worker Frank Cordaro, who helped organize the event. “This is making my neighborhood a legitimate war target.”

CODE PINK Delegation Meets With Homeland Security

March 20, 2014 Medea Benjamin and Alli McCraken www.codepink.org Educate! CODE PINK, Drones

So we invited our friends, and the press, to join us for the movie night. We brought a popcorn machine, set up chairs on the sidewalk across the road from his house, and rigged the projector up to a car battery. Even the neighbors came out with glasses of wine to join us as we watched footage of almost life-sized killer drones projected onto the side of his house and villagers talking about how the drones terrorized their communities and killed their loved ones. When the documentary ended, to our surprise, Johnson himself came out to talk to us. After an intense discussion about the ethics and efficacy of drone warfare, he invited us for a followup meeting once he was confirmed at the DHS.

Obama’s Drones Made Simple

March 17, 2014 Dennis Trainor Jr, www.PopularResistance.org Resistance Report Barack Obama, Civil Liberties, Drones, Human Rights

Under what conditions can we justify the use of violence in our personal lives? I’m certainly no legal expert, but say a person breaks into your house looking to do you harm. Before you know what has happened, they have killed your brother. Sequences of nerve cells fire off shooting adrenaline and cortisol into your bloodstream. Somehow your mind remembers, and your body approximates, some middle school karate kata and you render the intruder defenseless. Scrubbing the blood drippings from your carpet, you call the police, and some form of justice is administered. We would all agree that is self-defense, yes? A justified (in the moral and legal sense term) use of force. Now imagine it is years later that it is you breaking into someone’s house. It is not the home of the person who broke into your house, but it is in the same zip code.

NATO Drones Kill Afghan Soliders

March 8, 2014 Staff america.aljazeera.com Educate! Afghanistan, Drones

A NATO airstrike in eastern Afghanistan on Thursday accidentally killed five Afghan soldiers, government officials said. The deaths are likely to worsen already fraught relations between the U.S.-led NATO coalition and President Hamid Karzai, who has often seized on botched airstrikes to launch bitter criticism of the international military effort in Afghanistan. "At 3:30 a.m. this morning, due to a NATO airstrike in Charkh district, Logar province, five service members of the Afghan national army were martyred and eight others were wounded," Defense Ministry spokesman Zahir Azimi said on his Twitter account. Khalilullah Kamal, the Charkh district governor, told the news agency Agence France-Presse he had visited the site of the attack, which he said was from a U.S. drone.

Three Clergy, Two Veteranss Arrested Protesting Drones at Beale Air Force Base

March 6, 2014 ToBlomé, www.popularresistance.org Resist! Drones, Wars and Militarism

Five people, including three members of the clergy, and two veterans/one from World War II, were arrested during an Ash Wednesday service around 8 a.m. today at the gates of Beale Air Force Base, site of the surveillance drone Global Hawk. Participants, who were charged with trespassing, said they were risked arrested to "memorialize" the children killed by the U.S. government's fleet of killer drones. Beale's drones perform reconnaissance work for U.S. Predator Drones.

Drones: Spring Days of Action In April And May

March 2, 2014 Staff, www.knowdrones.com Organize! Drones, Freedom of Speech and Assembly, Human Rights, Wars and Militarism

An international call for Spring Days of Action – 2014, a coordinated campaign in April and May to: End Drone Killing, Drone Surveillance and Global Militarization -- The campaign will focus on drone bases, drone research facilities and test sites and drone manufacturers. The campaign will provide information on: 1. The suffering of tens of thousands of people in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia and Gaza who are under drone attack, documenting the killing, the wounding and the devastating impact of constant drone surveillance on community life. 2. How attack and surveillance drones have become a key element in a massive wave of surveillance, clandestine military attacks and militarization generated by the United States to protect a global system of manufacture and oil and mineral exploitation that is creating unemployment and poverty, accelerating the waste of nonrenewable resources and contributing to environmental destruction and global warming. In addition . . .

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