This post was written by Sharon Miller, San Francisco intern for CODEPINK On May 11, 2011, the House Armed Services Committee voted to approve the Fiscal Year 2012 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). This bill includes, among other things, an expansion of the legal basis for the so-called War on Terror. It passed the committee [...]
Friday, May 21, 2010
CODEPINK began day two of our “Ground the Drones” campaign at the General Atomics HQ in San Diego bright and early. Our vigil outside the CEO’s home the day before had garnered some local media attention, so it was no surprise that news of this protest had traveled quickly. Members of the community let us [...]
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
CODEPINK held a somber vigil outside of the home of General Atomics CEO James Neal Blue this morning in La Jolla, California. Members of the women’s peace group arrived at 10AM to find several news vans and police cars waiting for them. Unfurling banners that read, “Drone Attacks = Terror,” the three protesters set up [...]
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
Did you hear the joke about the predator drone that bombed? Medea Benjamin and Nancy Mancias At the 2004 Radio and Television Correspondents’ Dinner, President Bush joked about searching for WMDs under Oval Office furniture. The joke backfired when parents who had lost their children fighting in Iraq said they found the joke offensive and [...]
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
by Stephanie Westbrook Originally posted at After Downing Street As a visitor to our nation’s capital, I cannot tell you how disconcerting it is to step off the metro and find yourself face to face with a F-35 fighter jet. Where you would normally expect to find ads for cell phones or museum exhibitions, Washington’s [...]
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Drones: Made Locally, Killing Globally by Carol Jahnkow & Nancy Mancias San Diego is home to defense contractors General Atomics Aeronautical Systems and Northrop Grumman, the world’s largest and leading manufacturers of drones. General Atomics builds the Predator and Reaper drones. Northrop Grumman provides the software for a similar aircraft, the Global Hawk spy drone. [...]
Friday, May 20, 2011
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