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CODEPINK Reminds General Atomics that Making a Killing Isn’t Good for Business

CODEPINK began day two of our “Ground the Drones” campaign at the General Atomics HQ in San Diego bright and early. Our vigil outside the CEO’s home the day before had garnered some local media attention, so it was no surprise that news of this protest had traveled quickly. Members of the community let us [...]

NO Drones Vigil at CEO’s home in La Jolla

CODEPINK held a somber vigil outside of the home of General Atomics CEO James Neal Blue this morning in La Jolla, California. Members of the women’s peace group arrived at 10AM to find several news vans and police cars waiting for them. Unfurling banners that read, “Drone Attacks = Terror,” the three protesters set up [...]

Did you hear the joke about the predator drone that bombed?

Did you hear the joke about the predator drone that bombed? Medea Benjamin and Nancy Mancias At the 2004 Radio and Television Correspondents’ Dinner, President Bush joked about searching for WMDs under Oval Office furniture. The joke backfired when parents who had lost their children fighting in Iraq said they found the joke offensive and [...]

Drones: Made Locally, Killing Globally

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. [...]

Creech Air Force Base: A Place of Disbelief, Confusion & Sadness

By Nancy Mancias While many Americans spent their Thanksgiving holiday sitting around the table feasting on turkey and slumbering over the TV to watch football, members of CODEPINK Women for Peace used this Thanksgiving holiday to raise awareness about the war in Afghanistan. Creech Air Force Base, just north of Las Vegas, is the headquarters [...]

Life or Death: a trade-off by Cecile Pineda

The Obama administration has made a $128 billion request to fund war operations in Afghanistan and Iraq for the coming fiscal year.  $128 billion is a very interesting figure. By 2019, the Urban Institute concludes that a single payer health plan would save $20 billion annually based on a projected 6% annual increase in baseline [...]