Organizing Notes
Bruce Gagnon is coordinator of the Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space. He offers his own reflections on organizing and the state of America's declining empire....
About Me
- Name: Bruce K. Gagnon
- Location: Brunswick, ME, United States
The collapsing US military & economic empire is making Washington & NATO even more dangerous. US could not beat the Taliban but thinks it can take on China-Russia-Iran...a sign of psychopathology for sure. We must all do more to help stop this western corporate arrogance that puts the future generations lives in despair. @BruceKGagnon
Thursday, May 02, 2013
MARYSVILLE/BEALE
AFB, CA. – Five people were arrested around 8 a.m. on April 30 after dozens of
anti-drone demonstrators blocked the entrance to Beale Air Force Base for hours,
resulting in hundreds of vehicles being prevented from entering the base.
The
California Highway Patrol had to be called in to clear traffic which had lines of hundreds of cars in
several directions after peace advocates from Sacramento, San Francisco, Nevada
City and as far away as Fresno protested President Obama’s U.S. killer drone
program.
Those
arrested were briefly held on misdemeanor charges, which could result in six
months in jail if convicted in federal court. In a similar action, 31 people
were arrested at Hancock Air Base in Syracuse, NY on Sunday.
Last
October, nine people were arrested at Beale during protests – and five are
facing months in prison if convicted in a trial set for Sacramento Federal Court
this summer (August 12).
Beale
AFB is home to the U2 and the Global Hawk, the unmanned surveillance drone that
is an “accomplice” in drone killings. Activists arrested attempted to deliver a
letter to the Beale AFB commander that demanded:
(1) An immediate ban on the
use of all drones for extrajudicial killing (2) A halt all drone surveillance
that assaults basic freedoms and inalienable rights and terrorizes domestic life
in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen and Somalia (3) A prohibition on the sale,
and distribution of drones and drone technology to foreign countries in order to
prevent the proliferation of this menacing threat to world peace, freedom and
security and (4) The U.S. must immediately stop this lawless behavior of drone
warfare that violates many international laws and treaties.
“US
military and CIA Drone attacks have killed thousands of innocent civilians,
including women and children, in the Middle East, Somalia, Pakistan, and
Afghanistan. In the name of combating terrorism against the U.S. we are
terrorizing innocent people, and creating many more enemies and potential
terrorists in the process,” said a statement issued by Veterans for Peace, Code
Pink, Chico Peace and Justice Center, Nevada County Peace Center, Peace Fresno,
WILPF and World Can’t Wait.
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