from Global Sisters Report, a project of National Catholic Reporter
Longtime activists teach peace
September 26, 2019
Monthly Archive for September, 2019
photo by John Amidon
from Upstate Drone Action
30 Pine Nut farmers in Afghanistan killed by a U.S. Drone Strike – Was Hancock Drone Base Responsible?
Syracuse, NY – At approximately 10:30 a.m. on September 24, 2019, six members of Upstate Drone Action (UDA) were arrested while expressing deep anguish and grief over the recent U.S. drone attack in Afghanistan responsible for killing at least 30 pine nut workers, and for the numerous other civilians slaughtered by the U.S. government. Holding a banner reading “Drones Fly, Children Die – Our Hearts Are Breaking”, the six activists requested that the Sheriff’s department enforce the law and stop the killings by the drone assassination program conducted at Hancock Field and other Air Force bases across the U.S. They were arrested while standing in the road at the main gate entrance of Hancock Field in Syracuse, New York.
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The Wind Blows Where It Wills by Mark Colville June, 2019 Glynn County Detention Center Settling into a semi-quiet space to put pen to paper, I’m preoccupied with news of a trial that is proceeding in federal court in Tucson, Arizona. A man named Scott Warren is facing up to twenty years in prison on […]
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