From Witness Against Torture On November 30 and December 1, several hundred people gathered in Raleigh, North Carolina for an extraordinary event: the public hearings of the North Carolina Commission of Inquiry…
Category: Legal Actions
10-22-17 Celebrities Fasting With the Hunger Striking Guantánamo Prisoners That Donald Trump Is Allowing to Die
By Andy Worthington From Andy Worthington | Original Article It’s two weeks since the international human rights organization Reprieve let the world know that, under Donald Trump, the military at Guantánamo…
9-25-17 7 Arrested Delivering War Crimes Indictment to Hancock Reaper Drone Base
From Upstate Drone Action At 9 AM, 7 members of the grassroots group Upstate Drone Action once again were arrested as they delivered a citizen’s war crime indictment to the chain of…
9-1-17 Protest John Yoo During Poli-Sci Meeting
By Scott Jaschik From Inside Higher Ed | Original Article Critics hold signs during talk by John Yoo, demanding that controversial Berkeley professor be fired and excluded from speaking at such meetings….
7-3-17 Steven Bradbury ‘Just Following Orders’? Or Working an Illegitimate System for Fame and Fortune?
From Fire John Yoo! | Original Article From 2005-2009, Steven G. Bradbury was acting head of the Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel under George Bush. During this time he…
6-29-17 4 arrested protesting drones at Iowa Air National Guard
By Charly Haley From The Des Moines Register | Original Article A group of protesters blocked access to the Iowa Air National Guard base at the Des Moines airport for more than…
6-27-17 Germany Takes Historic Step Away From Weaponizing Drones
From KnowDrones | Original Article Memory of Nazi Atrocities May Be a Factor For the first time in history, a national legislative body has taken a position against installing weapons on drones….
5-5-17 Demonstrations continue at Beale Air Force Base against drone attacks
By Matthew Pera From The Union | Original Article See more photos here. Protestors at Beale Air Force Base have been arrested on almost 200 occasions, said Shirley Osgood, a Grass Valley…
4-14-17 9 Arrested At Good Friday Hancock Drone Action
From Upstate Drone Action Syracuse, NY – On Good Friday, April 14, nine non-violent civil resisters of Upstate Drone Action were arrested at the main entrance of Hancock Air National Guard Base…
3-10-17 Charges Dismissed Against 12/23 “Nativity Four” Hancock Reaper Drone Protesters Following Previous Week’s Jury Acquital of the “Big Books” Hancock Drone Protesters
By Upstate Drone Action In a surprise move, DeWitt Town Court Judge David Gideon dismissed charges against all four Upstate Drone Action activists protesting the hunter/killer MQ9 Reaper drones piloted over Afghanistan…
2-21-17 5 Face DeWitt Jury on 2/28 for their 2015 “Big Books” Anti-Weaponized Drone Action @ Hancock Airbase
From The Upstate Drone Action Coalition On March 19, 2015 on the 12th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, seven members of the Upstate Drone Action Coalition were arrested at Hancock…
2-1-17 War Criminals Watch Adviser Ann Wright Arrested at Sessions Hearing
Ann Wright stood up and called out several tlimes, “I say no to Jeff Sessions, no to hatred, not to racism, not to the ban on refugees”during the hearing held on Jan….
1-12-17 Witness Against Torture Arrested in DC Actions Against Torture & Trump’s Cabinet Nominees
From Witness Against Torture Clad in orange jumpsuits and Shut Down Guantanamo t-shirts, activists with Witness Against Torture took over the Hart Senate Building with a message for Senators, staffers, and the…
1-12-17 Brutal GTMO Commander Tapped for Homeland Security Chief
From a presentation made by San Francisco World Can’t Wait on Jan. 11, 2017 at the rally and march on the anniversary of the opening of Guantanamo prison. Some of you may…