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Event

Title:: Shut Down Creech!
When:: 03.30.2019 - 04.05.2019
Where:: Creech Air Force Base - Indiana Springs
Category:: Organizing Events

Description

Please come for part or all of this amazing Peace Convergence to nonviolently resist the illegal U.S. drone targeted assassination program. Stay at the newly relocated CAMP JUSTICE peace encampment, set up on the "Goddess Temple" grounds, 3 miles from Creech AFB. Most meals provided. We will send you a transportation form after you register with us, to coordinate ride shares to/from Camp Justice & Las Vegas. Click on tabs at the top of this page for detailed info about: Housing, Transportation, Camp Justice, Meals, Sponsorship, Registration, etc.The Goddess Temple (also called "Temple of Goddess Spirituality") is located 3 miles north on highway 95, from where we vigil daily at Creech. This welcoming oasis offers us shade trees, running water, showers, cooking facilities and much more.

- Nonviolent civil resistance planned for Wednesday, April 3, with preparation & planning taking place on Mon. & Tues., April 1 & 2. Please look carefully at the week's scheduled program, as you plan your trip. But if you can only participate in a few days, we recommend Tues - Thurs, April 2-4.

Peaceful vigils daily, Monday - Friday, April 1 - 5th, during rush hour commute times. 6:30 - 8:30 am and 3:30 - 5:30 pm. On Friday, there will only be a morning vigil, as we all depart at noon.

Thousands of cars enter and exit at commute times, and we will stretch ourselves out along Highway 95 with large signs, banners and other visuals/props throughout the week. We are developing vigil themes that will vary each day and we welcome any creative ideas for themes or offerings of help to make visuals & props.

A pledge to nonviolence guidelines and participation in nonviolence training, if needed, is required for full participation.

Please register HERE, so we can best serve everyone.

WHY WE PROTEST AT CREECH:

In 2005, Creech Air Force Base secretly became the first U.S. base in the country to carry out illegal, remotely controlled assassinations using the MQ-1 Predator drones, and in 2006, the more advanced Reaper drones were added to its arsenal. Creech drone personnel sit behind computers in the desert north of Las Vegas and kill "suspects" thousands of miles away. The more primitive Predators have been mostly phased out. Independent research indicates that the identity of only one out of 28 victims of U.S. drone strikes is known beforehand. Though officials deny it, the majority killed by drones are unknown civilians.

In 2014, it was leaked that the CIA's criminal drone assassination program, officially a separate operation from the Air Force's, has been piloted all along by Creech's super-secret Squadron 17. In November 2015, four Air Force drone veterans (3 of whom were based at Creech) wrote to President Obama, “We came to the realization that the innocent civilians we were killing only fueled the feelings of hatred that ignited terrorism and groups like ISIS, while also serving as a fundamental recruitment tool similar to Guantanamo Bay. This administration and its predecessors have built a drone program that is one of the most devastating driving forces for terrorism and destabilization around the world.”

Since 2009 dozens of activists have been arrested for allegedly trespassing at Creech, while attempting to peacefully interrupt the indiscriminate killing and burning of innocent people by drones.

The US drone program is rapidly proliferating as air bases are being converted to drone bases across the U.S. and abroad, but Creech remains a key drone base in U.S. state-sponsored global terrorism. Creech is where the killer drone program started--it is where we shall end it.

We must put an end to this desecration of our Mother Earth and all creatures who inhabit it.

We must put an end to the dehumanization of lives from Ferguson to Palestine to Syria and Yemen.

We must close all foreign U.S. military bases. Money should be prioritized for human needs, not war profiteering.

We must put an end to drone murder, drone surveillance and global militarization.

Venue

Venue:: Creech Air Force Base
City:: Indiana Springs
State:: Nevada
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