Drones: Made Locally, Killing Globally by Carol Jahnkow & Nancy Mancias San Diego is home to defense contractors General Atomics Aeronautical Systems and Northrop Grumman, the world’s largest and leading manufacturers of drones. General Atomics builds the Predator and Reaper drones. Northrop Grumman provides the software for a similar aircraft, the Global Hawk spy drone. These remotely controlled [...]
Monday, December 14, 2009
A talk given by Nancy Kricorian at a Celebration of Grace Paley: Speaking Truth to Power, Barnard Center for Research on Women and Gender, 12/11/09 * I met Grace Paley in the early 80’s when I was an undergraduate at Dartmouth College. At the time Grace and I were both members of the Upper Valley Committee Against [...]
Thursday, August 13, 2009
At CODEPINK, I’m responsible for reading and responding to our “info” email address. I recently received an email that included this: “Code Pink is a bunch of hypocrites. Why are you remaining silent while Obama sends 27,000 more young Americans to a surge in Afghanistan?” There’s been a steady stream of this kind of criticism [...]
Thursday, July 16, 2009
About a week ago, the blogosphere went wild when Sonali Kolhatkar, the host and producer of Uprising Radio and co-director of the Afghan Women’s Mission, a U.S. nonprofit that funds health, educational and training projects for Afghan women, and Mariam Rawi, a member of the Revolutionary Association of Women of Afghanistan working under a pseudonym, [...]
Monday, July 13, 2009
Just got back from Creech Air Force Base in Nevada, right outside Las Vegas, at a “Ground the Drones” vigil. (Why? Check out our press release.) In trying to engage in civil disobedience by trying to block traffic into the base, three people were arrested including Father Louis Vitale. Several more people were injured. Seeing [...]
Thursday, July 9, 2009
As the media continues to shine its spotlight on the death of celebrity Michael Jackson this week, so many other profound losses go unreported — like those Afghan and Pakistani civilians killed by unmanned U.S. drones operated via remote control in the Nevada desert. Since 2006, we are told drone attacks have killed 14 Al [...]
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
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