Testimony in the Case of Hancock Protesters from October 25, 2012 by Judith Bello, Presented January 24, 2014 Where I’m Coming From I’m 63 years old. I lived in a space of physical safety all of my life. But when I was a little girl, until about 1962, we had air raid drills in school on a regular basis. When […]
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Removing History from the Textbooks
A guest on Democracy Now! today complained about the Japanese writing recent history out of the textbooks. They don’t want young people to know about Japanese aggression preceding World War II. The powers that be want to hide the atrocities Japan committed while occupying China and Korea. They would erase the local roots of of a war that […]
Read moreNetwork Neutrality Struck Down
I woke this morning to the news that Network Neutrality had lost to an appeal by the corporate providers. This is a big setback, and personally raises in me a sense of despair. Yes. The decision can, and surely will be appealed yet again. But look at the Supremes. these are people who upheld the Citizens United decision. […]
Read moreClass and Race: What Happens When the ‘Have-Nots’ Become ‘Haves’?
SAVE THIS DATE: Tuesday, December 10th, 2013 How are human rights affected by class and race? The International Human Rights Day Committee invites you to a discussion of “Class and Race: What Happens When the ‘Have-nots’ Become ‘Haves’?” through a Dramatic Reading of “Palmer Park” written by Joanna McClelland Glass *** Dear human rights supporters: Every year we gather as […]
Read moreDrone Wars, P3: Who Will Tell the Emperor He Has No Clothes
A year ago October, around the same time I went to Pakistan to meet some Drone victims, visit the countryside where they live, two academic studies were released explicating concerns about the impact of Drone strikes on the civilian population in the Federally Administrated Tribal Area (FATA) of Pakistan along the Afghan border. One was published by a team from […]
Read moreDrone Wars, P2: The Empire Strikes Back
A widening discussion of the use of Drones for targeted assassination in war and in covert actions in countries where we are not at war, has developed since early 2010 when I first began actively protesting their use in these contexts. When I first began tracking news on drones for the Upstate Drone Action website in late 2010, it […]
Read moreDrone Wars, P1: A Victory for the Home Team?
On Ash Wednesday, February 13, 2013, 9 protesters were arrested at the front gate of Hancock Air Base, a control center for MQ-9 Reaper drone attacks in Afghanistan, a country enduring the largest number U.S. drone strikes in the world. Starting with the arrest of 39 people at Hancock in April of 2011, there have been 7 or 8 Civil […]
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Echo of Silence, re. Iranian Chemical Weapons Victims
The film below was recently posted on the Fellowship of Reconciliation Blog by Leila Zand. It appears to have been recently distributed, though the Chemical Weapons attacks visited on Iran and her people are now nearly 30 years in the past. Perhaps the event was triggered by the global discussion around Chemical Weapons attacks in Syria, As an ally […]
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Wounds of Waziristan
Last Fall, I met Madiha Tahir in Pakistan when I went there with the CodePink Delegation to meet the victims of U.S. Drone strikes in Waziristan. I have been working with the Upstate Coalition to Ground the Drones and end the Wars to end the Drone Wars for at least 6 years. As long as I have been protesting outside […]
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Chemical Weapons Update
The Nobel Peace Prize, it’s luster dulled by the wars of Barack Obama and the EU, and Henry Kissinger’s lifetime record of supporting massacres, dictators and Israeli exceptionalism, was presented to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons this year. According to Thorbjørn Jagland, Chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, the award was not necessarily for their current work […]
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