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Title:
Stop Drone Warfare - Earth Day - Syracuse NY
When:
04.22.2021 - 04.22.2021 09.00
Category:
Community Events

Description

Following another successful blockade and presence at Hancock Airfield on Valentine's Day, the Upstate Drones Network is planning a similar action on Earth Day.

Runaway climate change and the connection to outrageous military spending will be the theme. The US military has the largest carbon and greenhouse gas footprint of any organization in the world, larger than that of each of 140 countries, including industrialized countries, such as Sweden, Denmark, and Portugal. One of the military's jets, the B-52 Stratofortress, consumes about as much fuel in an hour as the average car driver uses in seven years.

This will also be the 10th anniversary of the first big civil resistance action at Hancock, April 22, 2011. 38 resisters were arrested that day. As in the last two actions at the base, a number of participants will blockade the entrance with Earth Day signs and banners. These participants intend to leave at the first warning from police. This will be a good opportunity for someone to experience an act of civil resistance with minimal risk of arrest.

Participants will be meeting at the Unitarian Universalist May Memorial parking lot, 3800 E. Genesee St. in Syracuse at 10:15 am to organize carpools to the base. Please contact Tom Joyce 607- 277-7426 or Mary Anne Grady Flores 607- 280-8797 if you would like to carpool -leaving @ 9am from Ithaca on Thursday, April 22nd.
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