Protest at Blue Angels Airshow Saturday in Brunswick, Maine

Protest at Blue Angels Airshow Saturday in Brunswick, Maine

 

Dear fellow Maine activists,

 

I’ve just returned from a month-long trip to the Asia-Pacific.  Coming up quickly this weekend at the former Navy base in Brunswick will be ‘The Great State of Maine Air Show’ featuring the Navy Blue Angels stunt team.

 

I learned yesterday that Maine Veterans for Peace had declined to organize a protest at the airshow.  Feeling it important to stand in protest at this event I’ve decided on short notice to put out a call for a protest presence in front of the former Navy Base, now called Brunswick Landing and Executive Airport, in Brunswick.

 

We will gather from 10:00 am until 1:00 on Saturday, September 5.

 

It’s obvious that this airshow is a major recruiting gimmick for the Pentagon and is a horrible waste of resources especially during this time of growing government austerity.  The carbon bootprint from such a massively polluting event once again underscores the reality that the US military is the largest polluter on the planet.  Finally we should all be reminded of the indiscriminate killing that is done by these kind of warplanes in the real world.

 

If you are so motivated please join those of us who plan to hold banners and signs outside the airshow.  Let me know if you have any questions.  Thanks.

 

Bruce K. Gagnon
Coordinator
Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space
PO Box 652
Brunswick, ME 04011
(207) 443-9502
http://www.space4peace.org 
http://space4peace.blogspot.com  (blog)

Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth. - Henry David Thoreau