APRIL DAYS OF ACTION AGAINST DRONES
APRIL DAYS OF ACTION 2013 – A National Uprising to Stop Drone Spying and Killing
CODEPINK and other national and local groups have joined to form the Network for Stopping Drone Spying and Warfare and are organizing April Days of Action 2013 to generate a public uprising across the United States to stop drone spying and drone warfare.
We urge you to select one or more of the days in April listed below to organize actions in your community to focus on drone-related activities where you live. The national coordinator for each set of days is listed. Please be in touch with that person to ask questions and to let them know the days on which you will focus.
April 4 – 6: Drone Manufacturing
Organizers around the country are encouraged to identify drone manufacturing facilities in their regions and organize demonstrations, teach-ins and other actions calling for an end to drone attacks and an end to the manufacture of weaponized and surveillance drones. Coordinator – Joe Scarry – jtscarry@yahoo.com
April 16 — 18: Drone Research/Training
Organizers around the country are encouraged to identify colleges and universities in their regions doing drone research and/or training of drone pilots and to call for an end to research and training related to drone warfare. Coordinator – Marge Van Cleef – mvc@igc.org
April 27 – 28: Drone Bases
Organizers around the country will be encouraged to organize protests at drone bases in their regions. People will be encouraged also to participate in demonstrations planned during this period at the Reaper drone base at Hancock Air Base near Syracuse, NY.
Coordinator – Dave Soumis – davidso1@charter.net
You can find out more about drone research in your area by Googling the names of local colleges and universities along with the words “unmanned aerial systems” or “unmanned aerial vehicles”. For a list of corporations and institutions doing drone manufacturing and research see this link (from the website of the Association of Unmanned Systems International)
http://www.auvsi.org/MembershipandChapters/CorporateMembers
Please join in this unique nationwide movement, the April Days of Action 2013. For more information, go to www.dronewatch.org.
Distributed on Sunday, March 17, 2013 by the New Haven Sunday Vigilers http://newhavensundayvigil.wordpress.com; ctpcnh@gmail.com:
RESIST THIS ENDLESS WAR
Join us every Sunday, 12-1 p.m., here at Broadway, Park and Elm Streets, New Haven.
Here is a recent article on our vigil in Yale Daily News.
Forty two years later, still protesting
Published letter to the editor explaining what is missing in the article
I applaud the way you are waging peace. My wife and I have a website that someone put up for us, beans4peas, but it remains unactive, because we haven’t learned how to manage it ourselves. So, I am doubly impressed by what you are doing. Roger Cuthbertson (Garbanzo)
I have read your statement, “War ON Terrorism — War IS Terrorism,” and fully subscribe to its contents. My group, Grandmothers Against the War, firmly believes, also, that war is NOT the answer, that war as a response to 9-11 has generated more and more terrorism and shattered the lives of people around the globe and those here at home.
We invite you to join OUR vigil when you’re in New York City — every Wednesday on the west side of 5th Ave. between 49th and 50th Sts. in front of Rockefeller Plaza from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. We’re always there, weather notwithstanding. We Peaceniks must connect with one another!
Yours, Joan Wile, Founder, Grandmothers Against the War
Author, “Grandmothers Against the War: Getting Off Our Fannies and Standing Up for Peace” (Citadel Press 2008)
I attended college in New Haven during the turbulent years between 1969 and 1973. It’s encouraging to see there are still a few people in the Elm City willing to stand up for a worthy cause. Thank you for reminding us of the need to never waver from the course.
Dan Hopkins
Springfield, Mass.