FOCUS FOR 2018 – AFGHANISTAN. WHAT DO YOU THINK?
In the weeks of the winter holidays – spending time with my family, cooking, sending cards, buying presents – I had gnawing at me that knowledge that I would be writing this new year’s bulletin. [Continue reading…]
TIME TO CALL ANEW FOR DISARMING DRONES
Those of us who have been advocating for an end to drone attacks and the disarming of drones have “ancestors” in those who, in 1899, persuaded The Hague Convention to adopt a five-year ban on dropping bombs from hot air balloons and “other new methods of similar nature”, like airplanes. [Continue reading…]
ANTI-DRONE WAR ARRESTS CONTINUE
On December 28, 2017, as documented in the photos linked below, four protesters – Catholic Workers and members of Veterans For Peace – were arrested at the Iowa National Guard Armed Drone Command Center in Des Moines. This is the latest in a series of such protests at that base. [Continue reading…]
CHRISTMAS ARRESTS ALSO AT THE UNITED STATES STRATEGIC COMMAND
Also on December 28, 2017, six peace activists from Wisconsin, South Dakota and Iowa, were arrested outside the gates of Offutt Air Force Base, the home of STRATCOM, the United States Strategic Command, outside Omaha, Nebraska. [Continue reading…]
15 ARRESTED IN U.N. YEMEN PROTEST
On December 11, 2017, 15 people were arrested for blocking the entrance to the U.S. mission to the U.N. in protest of the U.S. support for the Saudi aerial bombardment of the people of Yemen, people who were pummeled with U.S. drone and cruise missile attacks for years prior to the current Saudi assault. [Continue reading…]