U.S. Citizens Join Runway Occupation at NATO Nuclear Air Base Volkel, Netherland

U.S. Citizens Join Runway Occupation at NATO Nuclear Air Base Volkel, Netherland

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According to Wikipedia:  “It is believed that since the early 1960s, USAF nuclear weapons have been stored at Volkel Air Base, to be used by the host nation’s aircraft.”

“The USAF 703rd Munitions Support Squadron (703rd MUNSS) is in charge of maintaining and securing the weapons.  As of 2008, 22 B61 nuclear bombs are believed to be in storage at Volkel, to be used by the Dutch 311 and 312 F-16 squadrons at the base.”      [jb]

Early Tues., August 8, ten anti-war & climate activists including six from the United States, were detained by police after they occupied the runway at Volkel airbase demanding the withdrawal of the U.S. nuclear bombs stationed there, and an end to nuclear weapons-related CO2 emissions.
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Upstate Drone Action Earthday 2023, Delivering Subpoenas to Friends of the Merchants of Death

Upstate Drone Action Earthday 2023, Delivering Subpoenas to Friends of the Merchants of Death

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by Jack Gilroy, published in Veterans For Peace Newsletter | Spring 2023 25

Click HERE to see a playlist of 1 or 2 minute  videos from each site: Syracuse Federal Bldg, Chase Bank, Bishops Chancellary, Lockheed Martin and Hancock Air Base. Filmed and edited by Nate Henshaw, produced by Mary Anne Grady Flores

An Earth Day celebration mocking the clever fools of the war machine produced a lot of grim fun in Syracuse, New York, on Friday, April 21. A coalition of peace groups including Upstate Drone Action, Veterans For Peace Chapter 90, Peace Action, UpState PaxChristi, and Ithaca Catholic Worker had already issued subpoenas to six merchants of death and their enablers in the Syracuse community to testify at the November 2023 Merchants of Death Tribunal. Now it was time to hear from the war enablers themselves.  Continue reading “Upstate Drone Action Earthday 2023, Delivering Subpoenas to Friends of the Merchants of Death”

Shut Down Drone Warfare, April 15-22

Shut Down Drone Warfare, April 15-22

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5 Anti-drone Activists Arrested April 19, including 3 Veterans,

while Blockading the Main Gate to Holloman Air Force Base

Co-sponsored by CODEPINK, Veterans For Peace and Ban Killer Drones

Blocking the front gate at Holloman Airforce Base

THE EVENT WAS A HUGE SUCCESS!
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Key Questions Remain Unanswered About U.S. Afghan Drone Killing

Key Questions Remain Unanswered About U.S. Afghan Drone Killing

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
January 9, 2023
Contact Nick Mottern, (914) 806-6719,
BanKillerDrones

On January 6, the New York Times offered new evidence of Pentagon efforts to cover up mistakes made in its August 29, 2021 drone killing of 10 members of an Afghan family, but a U.S. organization opposing drone warfare says there still is no official explanation of the intelligence failures that led to the attack.  Continue reading “Key Questions Remain Unanswered About U.S. Afghan Drone Killing”

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – OCT. 16, 2022

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – OCT. 16, 2022

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Contact: Nick Mottern, Co-coordinator, BanKillerDrones.org
(914) 806-6179

U.N. SECETARY GENERAL IS BEGGED TO CALL FOR HALT IN USE OF WEAPONIZED DRONES
IN UKRAINE WAR AND ELSEWHERE.

The anti-war group BanKillerDrones.org, which emphasizes the inhumanity and escalatory danger of weaponized drones, begs U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres to call on all sides in the Ukraine War to immediately stop using weaponized drones of any kind in the interest of reducing the level of killing, maiming and terror and to contain the war, which is spreading rapidly.  Continue reading “FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – OCT. 16, 2022”

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