Debra Sweet | July 9, 2014 A hearty “thank you” to Courage to Resist, which just issued a call to “all U.S. military personnel to resist any effort to pursue a new…
Category: Reports on Protest & Resistance
Protesters Outside Obama’s West Point Speech Call on Army to Refuse to Fly Drones
Nick Mottern | May 31, 2014 On Wednesday, May 28, about 25 protesters mounted a sunrise anti-drone war witness at the two gates to West Point where family and friends of cadets…
Global Protests Say Shut Down Guantanamo – End Indefinite Detention
Debra Sweet | May 26, 2014 ALERT: Ominous action taken in the U.S. is a Senate vote this week to authorize Obama to move all the 154 prisoners to prisons in the…
Student Protest Forces Condoleezza Rice to Pull Out of Rutgers Commencement
Interview by Revolution | May 5, 2014 On May 2, Condoleezza Rice released a statement that she was bowing out of an invitation she had received to give the commencement speech at…
Making Visible the Victims of the Drone Wars
Debra Sweet | April 29, 2014 Sunday I was in Syracuse, NY for a mass protest against drones, and of the outrageous “orders of protection” granted by a local judge against specific…
Three Weeks into Days of Action to Stop US Drone Wars & Surveillance: More than 90 Actions
Debra Sweet | April 23, 2014 CIA drone strikes over the last few days have taken the lives of “more than 3 dozen militants” according to US and Yemen government statements. They…
Hancock 17 Drone War Crimes Resisters’ Verdict Is In
Press Release from Upstate Drone Action | February 7, 2014 All found guilty of disorderly conduct but acquitted of trespassing; Order of Protection extended 2 years; Judge decides to send a message…
The Story of My Arrest at David Petraeus’ Speaking Engagement
Deb Vanpoolen | February 3, 2014 The Essential Facts:As I sat in that room, I decided my action would be designed to send a fissure through David Petraeus’ edifice of lies with…
Talking with Muslim Students about Protesting the US Drone War
World Can’t Wait – San Francisco | January 27, 2014 In January, just after the Close Guantanamo NOW Tour left the Bay Area, World Can’t Wait gave a workshop about the U.S….
Close Guantanamo Billboard Goes Up Outside Torture Taxi Airport
Tarak Kauff | January 8, 2014 Yesterday a billboard went up in North Carolina. Not your typical commercial billboard. The placement and the content were unique. The billboard with graphic artwork depicting two…