This spring, we will spread protest against the U.S. use of
drones for targeted killing and surveillance. A call has gone out, which you can
sign here. Plans are rapidly coming together for protest at
drone manufacturing sites, military bases that deploy drones, and campuses where
drone research and training are quickening.
World Can't Wait will focus
on reaching students especially, and in bringing out the voices of people who
are targeted in the U.S. dirty wars. Join our planning discussion Thursday
evening (details on the right) or email me with your thoughts and plans.
An international
call for Spring Days of Action – 2014, a coordinated campaign in April
and May to:
End Drone Killing, Drone
Surveillance and Global Militarization
The campaign will focus on drone bases, drone research facilities and test
sites and drone manufacturers.
The campaign will provide information
on:
1. The suffering of tens of
thousands of people in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia and Gaza who are
under drone attack, documenting the killing, the wounding and the devastating
impact of constant drone surveillance on community life.
2. How attack and surveillance drones have
become a key element in a massive wave of surveillance, clandestine military
attacks and militarization generated by the United States to protect a global
system of manufacture and oil and mineral exploitation that is creating
unemployment and poverty, accelerating the waste of nonrenewable resources and
contributing to environmental destruction and global warming.
In addition
to cases in the Middle East, Africa and Central Asia, we will examine President
Obama's "pivot" into the Asia-Pacific, where the United States has already sold
and deployed drones in the vanguard of a shift of 60% of its military forces to
try to control China and to enforce the planned Trans-Pacific Partnership. We
will show, among other things, how this surge of "pivot" forces, greatly enabled
by drones, and supported by the US military-industrial complex, will hit every
American community with even deeper cuts in the already fragile social programs
on which people rely for survival. In short, we will connect drones and
militarization with "austerity" in America.
3. How drone attacks have effectively
destroyed international and domestic legal protection of the rights to life,
privacy, freedom of assembly and free speech and have opened the way for new
levels of surveillance and repression around the world, and how, in the United
States, increasing drone surveillance, added to surveillance by the National
Security Agency and police, provides a new weapon to repress black, Hispanic,
immigrant and low-income communities and to intimidate Americans who are
increasingly unsettled by lack of jobs, economic inequality, corporate control
of politics and the prospect of endless war.
We will discuss how the
United States government and corporations conspire secretly to monitor US
citizens and particularly how the Administration is accelerating drone
surveillance operations and surveillance inside the United States with the same
disregard for transparency and law that it applies to other countries, all with
the cooperation of the Congress.
Read more and endorse this call to action.
Cheers to Deb Vanpoolen for Calling
General Petraeus a War Criminal!
Debra Sweet & Deb Van Poolen, December 2013, wishing Chelsea Manning a
Happy Birthday
Friday, January 31, David Petraeus spoke in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Deb Van
Poolen writes, in The Story of My Arrest at David Petraeus' Speaking
Engagement:
“As Petreaus was asked various questions by the
moderator, he responded to each of them with simplistic statements. For
example, he said there is no debate in his mind about Snowden: the damage he
did was “colossal”. He mentioned “cyber theft” and “Islamic extremism” as major
concerns for the US government. He also said the United States is best
positioned to be the world leader in fracking because US mining companies have
superior “technical expertise”. As he discussed Israel, Iran and Syria with
racist overtones, I resisted the intense cloud of brainwashing in preference to
focus on my next steps. His talk about fracking had triggered an idea: I
decided my action would be a humble effort to frack the thick fog of doublespeak
overwhelming in the room.”
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Thursday February 6 World Can't Wait
Conversation
New participants welcome. We'll be talking,
planning, questioning, digging into what's most important to work on in
2014.
Nick Mottern of KnowDrones.com will be on, as well as others
working on the April/May protests of drones.
We will also discuss the
Tuesday February 11 The Day We Fight Back, protesting NSA surveillance on the
anniversary of the death of Aaron Swartz.
Register for dial-in info.
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