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SUMMARY:Faithful Witness in a Time of Endless War: Drone Warfare & God’s Call to Peacemaking
DESCRIPTION:\nFaithful Witness in a Time of Endless War: Drone Warfare and God’s Call to Peacemaking conference- June 24-25\, 2016\n\n The Peace Action Education Fund is co-sponsoring “Faithful Witness in a Time of Endless War\, Drone Warfare and God’s Call to Peacemaking” conference on Friday evening & Saturday morning – June 24-25\, 2016 at Christopher Dock Mennonite High School 1000 Forty Foot Road\, Lansdale\, PA 19446 culminating with a public witness on Saturday afternoon\, June 25 at the: Horsham Drone Command Center County Line & Easton Road\, Horsham\, PA 19044. Registration is required for this event.\n\nFAITHFUL WITNESS IN A TIME OF ENDLESS WAR  \nDrone Warfare and God’s Call to Peacemaking\n\n\nRegister online at www.peacecoalition.org\nFriday 7:00-9:00 PM and Saturday 8:00 AM- 12:00 PM – June 24-25\, 2016 \n       Christopher Dock Mennonite High School         \n1000 Forty Foot Road\, Lansdale\, PA 19446 \nCulminating with a public witness on Saturday 1:00-2:30 PM\, June 25 at the: \nHorsham Drone Command Center \nCounty Line & Easton Road\, Horsham\, PA 19044 \nBlessed are the peacemakers\, for they will be called children of God (Matthew 5:9)\n \nChristopher Aaron: spent two years working at the CIA on the predator drone program\, and a total of five years in US intelligence agencies. He was deployed twice to Iraq and Afghanistan from 2006-2009. Former army Chaplain who served in Afghanistan and resigned due to moral objections to Drone Warfare. \nMedea Benjamin: an American political activist\, best known for co-founding Code Pink.  She is the author of the book Drone Warfare: Killing by Remote Control. \nShane Claiborne: a Christian activist\, author and one of the founding members of the intentional community The Simple Way in Philadelphia speaking about Jesus and peacemaking. \nThe Rev. Kelly Denton-Borhaug\, Ph.D: chair of the Religion Department and Co-director of the Minor in Peace and Justice Studies\, Moravian College\, Bethlehem\, PA. Author U.S. War Culture\, Sacrfice and Salvation\n\nMs. Blew Kind: performs “Buzzing of a Bee\,” a spoken word piece that connects violence and white supremacy to drone warfare and calls into question the morality of militarized drones. \nMuhammed Malik: Co-Founder of Muslims for Ferguson\, Former Executive Director of Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) in Miami. Mr. Malik is an intersecional organizer within anti-war and anti-racism movements.\n\nTitus Peachey: Former Peace Education Coordinator of Mennonite Central Committee\, Akron\, PA. \nRobert M. Smith: Coordinator of Brandywine Peace Community and initiator of monthly demonstrations at new drone command center in Horsham\, PA. \nSponsoring organizations (list in formation): 1040forpeace; American Friends Service Committee; Brandywine Peace Community; Center on Conscience & War (CCW); Franconia Mennonite Conference; Germantown Friends Meeting; Interfaith Network on Drone Warfare; LEPOCO; Mennonite Central Committee East Coast; Mennonite Church USA Peace and Justice Network; National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee; Peace Action Education Fund (PAEF); PA Council of Churches; Pennsylvania Interfaith Network against Drone Warfare; Philadelphia-Area Anti-Drone Network; Plains Mennonite Church; Salford Mennonite Church & the Justice & Peace Ministry of Salford\, PA; The Simple Way \n\n
URL:http://www.brandywinepeace.com/event/faithful-witness-in-a-time-of-endless-war-drone-warfare-gods-call-to-peacemaking/
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SUMMARY:IGNITE PEACE! End Drone Terror: Say NO to Drone War Command Center at the Horsham PA Air Guard Station.
DESCRIPTION:\n\n\n \nSaturday\, June 25 \, Noon – 2p.m. – IGNITE PEACE in Horsham\, PA at the fully operational drone war command center. \nStand in protest of the  remote-controlled violence of drone warfare\, the policy of “endless war”\, its related hatred and fear dominating these times.\n\nEnd Drone Terror\, Say NO to the Drone War Command Center at the Horsham PA Air Guard Station\, Route 611/Easton Road and County Line Road\, in Horsham\, PA.\nSee directions and map below.  Recommended parking in the Regal Cinemas Warrington Crossing on Rout 611 just beyond County Line Road.  Dress according to the weather and bring a umbrella in the event of rain.\nThe U.S. Air Force has established a drone war command center at the Horsham Air Guard Station.  From there\, MQ-9 Reaper drone can be piloted by remote control to launch their deadly Hellfire missiles against people on the other side of the world. \n\nSince April 2013\, and the announcement that a drone war command center was planned for the Horsham PA Air Guard Station\, there have been focused protests at the base (last Saturday of the month\, Noon – 2p.m.) as well as other events throughout the region. \n\n\nJoin the campaign to stop the drone war command center in Horsham which is due to be fully operation this year\, 2015. Make an appeal to computer drone war operators or prospective operators whose hands are on the “killing sticks” at the Horsham command center:  JUST WALK AWAY; End the Violence.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n http://truth-out.org/news/item/29466-are-pilots-deserting-washington-s-remote-control-war\n\n\n(See appeal to drone operators for Horsham\, PA  below)\n\n\n\n…We know that drone operators –are being trained for remote-controlled attack missions from Horsham. Human beings\, with consciences\, families\, friends\, and hearts\, will fly\, by remote control\, drone aircraft and launch Hellfire missiles against people thousands of miles away. \n\nThe drone war command center in Horsham is operational. The campaign to stop the drone command center will\, as part of the demonstrations in the coming months\, be making direct and open public appeal to drone operators to take their hands from the computer ‘killing sticks’\, to listen to their consciences\, and to consider their responsibility for stopping the killing and establishing peace. Therein lies hope! \n\nWe all share a responsibility to stop drone warfare and spying\, to stop the wars\, violence\, and poverty\, that grip our world\, to stop the corporations that build the missiles\, bombs\, and drones\, and profit from the world’s suffering.  Stop the drone war command center in Horsham\, PA. \n\nPeace will happen when people make it so.We thank and join with our sisters and brothers at Veterans for Peace\, Code Pink\, Catholic Workers\, KnowDrones\, all our campaign’s endorsing groups\, and resisters at other domestic drone related bases around the country in our appeal to drone operators. \n\nVeterans for Peace have appealed to drone operators earlier  at the Creech Air Force drone command base in Nevada\, as part of an act of nonviolent civil resistance.  \n\nWe make the same appeal here in Horsham at the drone war command center.\nhttp://www.veteransforpeace.org/pressroom/news/2015/03/04/message-us-veterans-drone-operat ors-and-support-personnel-cr\n\n\nNonviolence Discipline for Demonstration Participants\n\n\nTo assist in the unity of demonstration participants\, and to project justice\, our humanity\, and moral message:\n1. We will not carry weapons.\n2. We will not vandalize or destroy property.\n3. We will not use or carry alcohol or illegal drugs.\n4. We will not run or make threatening motions.\n5. We will not insult\, swear at\, or attack anyone\, refraining\, in the words of Dr. Martin Luther King\, Jr.\, from “the violence of fist\, tongue\, or heart.”\n6. We will not assault\, verbally or physically\, those who oppose or disagree with us.\n7. Our attitude\, conveyed through our words\, symbols and actions\, will be one of peace\, openness\, and respect toward everyone.\n8. We will remain focused on the message of the demonstration\, cooperate with the planning of the demonstration\, and help maintain its nonviolent discipline.\n9. If an individual has a serious disagreement with the organizers of the action that cannot be resolved\, the individual will withdraw from the action.\n10. We will maintain — in word and deed — our nonviolent resolve for peace and justice.\n\n\nInitiated by the Brandywine Peace Community and the American Friends Service Committee\, the nonviolent campaign to stop the drone war command center has the endorsement of a growing list of groups and activists: Bryn Mawr Peace Coalition; BuxMont Coalition for Peace Action; Catholic Peace Fellowship; Coalition for Peace Action (Princeton\, NJ); Death Walk Against Drones; LEPOCO (Lehigh-Pocono Committee of Concern); Germantown Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers); Global Women’s Strike/Phila.; Granny Peace Brigade—Philadelphia; Green Party of Philadelphia; Greens of Montgomery and Bucks County; Main Line Peace Action; Pacem in Terris (Wilmington\, DE); Payday men’s network/Phila.; Peace & Justice Ministry of St. Vincent’s Roman Catholic Church in Germantown; Philly Against War; Peace Center of Delaware County; Philadelphia Catholic Worker; Shalom House/Circle of Hope; Veterans for Peace; Vietnam Veterans Against the War; Women’s International League for Peace & Freedom (WILPF)\, Phila-Delco.\n\n\n\nBackground\n\nMarch 2013  the U.S. Air Force announced\, along with local\, state\, and federal officials\, chief among them U.S. Representative Patrick Meehan (R\, CD 7)\,  plans to establish a drone war command center within the 111th Fighter Wing of the Pennsylvania Air National Guard\, at Horsham Air National Guard Station.\n\nThe purpose of the drone war command center in Horsham is remote-controlled killing. From Horsham\, computer piloted “Reaper” drones are directed to targets thousands of miles away.\n\nThese attack drones carry deadly Hellfire missiles and laser-guided bombs that are fired by computer “pilot” command from the U.S. against people in Pakistan\, Afghanistan\, Yemen\, Syria\, and Somalia.  Drone strikes have killed thousands of people\, mostly civilians and children whose images and faces may have appeared on the pilot’s computer monitor.\n\nThe multi-million-dollar drone command center in Horsham is a central part of the growing network of drone bases\, training sites\, and command centers\, crisscrossing the U.S\, funded by billions of U.S. tax dollars\, and enabling remote-controlled drone strikes around the world.  Millions in federal dollars were appropriated in October 2013 for the PA drone command center\, which is now fully operational and conducting drone killing ‘missions’ from Horsham\, PA.\n\nMore on drone warfare and spying: \n\nhttps://theintercept.com/drone-papers/\n\nMore on drone warfare\, www.knowdrones.com\n\n\n\n\n\n\n‘Meet the Reaper’\, the MQ-9 Reaper DroneUnmanned\, remote-controlled\, 66 foot wingspan\, 4\,900 lbs.\, 230 mph cruise speed\, 1\,150-mile range\, 50\,000 max. altitude\, $53.5 million (FY 2006 dollars)=cost of four aircraft with sensors\, (not counting weaponry and remote-control technology) \nReaper Weaponry: Hellfire Missiles (Lockheed Martin); Paveway/GBU-38 Laser-Guilded Bombs (Raytheon)\n\n\n\n\n\n
URL:http://www.brandywinepeace.com/event/ignite-peace-end-drone-terror-say-no-to-drone-war-command-center-at-the-horsham-pa-air-guard-station-4/
LOCATION:Horsham PA Air Guard Station\, Route 611 and County Line Road\, Horsham\, PA\, 19044\, United States
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