Ground the Drones & End the Wars
Join us for a weekend of resistance to US war making April 21-22
- April 21: Weekend in the Warzone Workshops,Workshop Topics:
Getting Underneath the US Drone War
Fellowship of Reconciliation Iran Project
Drones 101
International Law
Click for more info Keynote Speaker: Medea BenjaminCo-founder of CodePink, and author of the recently published Drone Warfare: Killing by Remote Control
Click for more info - April 22: Leafletting * Walk to the Base * Action @ Hancock
- Click Here for Schedule and Details
- The use of the reaper drone is in direct violation of International Laws and the US Constitution
- Extrajudicial Killing
- Violation of Due Process
- Wars of Aggression
- Violation of National Sovereignty
- The Killing of Innocent Civilians
- Crimes Against Peace
These actions are violations of the United Nations Charter, which the US was a Charter Signatory in 1945, and the Kellog Briand Pact, signed by the US in 1928 and archived in Washington DC. We are bound by Article 2, Secion 6 of our Constitution, which states:
“All Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, anything in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding.”
Sponsored by: Upstate Coalition to Ground the Drones and End the Wars, UNAC (United National Antiwar Coalition), Fellowship of Reconciliation, World Can’t Wait, NYSDAP (New York State Direct Action for Peace), The Upstate Anti-War Network, The Syracuse Peace Council, Broome County Peace Action, Ithaca Catholic Worker, Peace Now Ithaca, Slocum House, Rochester Against War, Interfaith Peace Network of WNY, Peace Education Fund of WNY, Western New York Peace Center, Veterans for Peace #128, Voices for Creative Nonviolence, Colonel Ann Wright, Bethlehem Neighbors for Peace from Albany, Occupy Buffalo, 2012 Know Drones National Tour, St Joseph Catholic Worker/Rochester