By Fran Quigley From Counterpunch.org | Original Article Jessica Reznicek, 34, an Iowa peace activist, was arraigned yesterday and charged with two felonies for breaking three windows with a sledgehammer at the…
Category: Reports of Demonstrations
2-4-16 WarCriminalsWatch.org Meets Petraeus
By Debra Sweet Often, since 2008, War Criminals Watch has thrown up protests when (mostly) Bush-era officials spoke publicly. This week, instead of protesting outside, some of us went inside when General…
1-28-16 Jerry Berrigan Memorial Drone Blockade Hancock Air Drone Base Today – Twelve Activists Arrested
By Upstate Drone Action On Thursday morning, January 28, thirty life sized cutouts of Syracuse peacemaker Jerry Berrigan blockaded the main entrance of Hancock Air National Guard Base outside Syracuse, NY. The…
1-28-16 Grandmother and Long-time Activist Joyce Ellwanger Guilty of Trespass in Wisconsin
By Debra Sweet Joyce Ellwanger is part of the protest community at Volk Field in Wisconsin, an Air National Guard base which also trains drone operators. She was convicted of trespass on…
1-20-16 A Drone Protestor Heads to Jail
By Bill Moyers From Moyers & Company | Original Article A US drone aircraft lands at Afghanistan’s Jalalabad Airport. (Noorullah Shirzada/AFP/Getty Images) Mary Anne Grady Flores is in jail today and…
1-19-16 Photographing Drone War Protest Lands Peace Activist, Grandmother 6 Months in Prison – Part 1
From Democracy Now | Original Article An upstate New York peace activist and grandmother is heading to jail today to begin a six-month sentence for photographing a protest at a base where…
1-19-16 Drone War Protester Mary Anne Grady Flores Speaks Out Ahead of Six-Month Jail Term – Part 2
From Democracy Now | Original Article AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, The War and Peace Report. I’m Amy Goodman, with Part 2 of our discussion with an Ithaca, New York,…
1-18-16 Guantanamo isn’t just about 90 prisoners
By Debra Sweet Protesters across the U.S. and at U.S. embassies in London and Mexico City last week demanded the closure of the U.S. torture camp at Guantánamo Bay first set up…
1-6-16 Guantanamo Will Close When the World Knows the Truth
IN 2002, the Bush regime set up a primitive prison camp at the U.S. military base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Over six years they held 776 men there without charges, using what…
12-9-15 World Can’t Wait Initiates Protest to STOP U.S. War
By Rem O’Donnelley From Worldcantwait.net | Original Article World Can’t Wait Initiates Protest to STOP U.S. War A week after the terrorist attack in Paris, a crucial protest demonstration took to the…
11-16-15 Protest When Kissinger Spoke at Westchester Community College
From lohud | Original Article Watch video of protest at bottom of page here. VALHALLA In the wake of the Paris terror attacks, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger painted a dark portrait…
09-26-15 Large Protest Against Drone Strikes at Ramstein Base in Germany
From Stars and Stripes | Original Article RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, Germany — Carrying signs telling the U.S. military “to go home” and “to stop war,” hundreds gathered for several hours outside Ramstein…
09-21-15 Five Arrested Holdign Huge ‘Drone Kill Children” Bannners Across Hannock Reaper Drones Based main Entrance
From the Upstate Drone Action Coalition This morning, September 21, the U.N.-designated World Day of Peace, five members of the grassroots human rights coalition, Upstate (NY) Drone Action [upstatedroneaction.org], were arrested as…
8-26-15 Wisconsin Walk for Peace and Justice: Nine Arrested at Volk Field
By Joy First Voices for Creative Nonviolence engaged with a number of Wisconsin peace groups to organize an 8-day 90-mile walk across southwest Wisconsin from August 18-25. The purpose of the walk…
8-18-15 Anti-War Protest At the Chicago “Air & Water Show”
The Chicago Chapter of World Can’t Wait writes: World Can’t Wait welcomed people coming to the annual Chicago Air & Water Show on August 15 with a banner that set the record…