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From: Joy First <joyf...@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 10:38 AM
NCNR Organizing Call February 4, 2015
Present – Max, Malachy, Joy, Ellen
NCNR is organizing a march from the Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA) to the Pentagon on April 22. The purpose is to call for an end
to the destruction of our Mother Earth by the US military through
pollution, depleted uranium, nuclear weapons etc.
Letters – Max is working on a letter to Gina McCarthy, head of the
EPA, and to the Secretary of Defense at the Pentagon. When these
letters are ready they will be circulated for signatures and then
mailed to the EPA and the Pentagon. There will be an attempt to
deliver the letters on April 22.
Program – We are working on lining up a few speakers at the EPA and at
the Pentagon. If you know someone who can talk about these issues
connecting the Pentagon to the destruction of the planet, please
contact joyf...@gmail.com
In the meantime Max, Malachy, and Joy will be contacting possible speakers.
Civil resistance action, risking arrest - There will be a civil
resistance action as we attempt to deliver the letters at the EPA and
at the Pentagon. If you are thinking about risking arrest and want
more information, or if you know you want to risk arrest, please
contact Joy at joyf...@gmail.com
Route – We are working on determining the route for the march from the
EPA to the Pentagon. For those of you who can’t march the four miles,
there will be an option to take the metro from the EPA to the Pentagon
and meet up with the group there. We can communicate via cell
phones to coordinate coming together at the Pentagon.
Outreach – The call to action is attached to this email and pasted in
below. Please share this widely through your lists.
We would also like to encourage peace groups around the country to
share the call with their group. If you are a member of another peace
group, or know of another peace group, please let Joy at
joyf...@gmail.com know that you will be contacting them and asking
them to share the call to action.
Announcements
BIG THANKYOU to Code Pink for action with Kissinger. Dangling
handcuffs in his face. Unbelievable response from McCain.
Remember Plowshares. There was a NY Daily News article about Megan
Rice living in a “hell hole” that has brought attention. There is
going to be an appeal for Plowshares activists on March 12 in
Cincinnati.
David Barrows update – David went to court on Monday. At the last
moment the government filed motion in limine and David’s trial has
been pushed out until the end of May. Charge has mens rea element and
that means David has to talk about why he was there. Mark Goldstone
is working with David on this.
Letter to judges who were involved with CIA 5 trial in October 2013 –
Max is working on a letter to send to the judges and will circulate
when ready.
Next call - March 4
THE NATIONAL CAMPAIGN FOR NONVIOLENT RESISTANCE ISSUES A CALL TO ACTION
January 22, 2015
In times of great injustice and despair, we are called to act from a
place of conscience and courage. For all of you who are sick of heart
over the destruction of the earth through pollution and
militarization, we call on you to get involved in an action-oriented
march that speaks to your heart and mind, marching from the EPA to the
Pentagon on April 22, Earth Day.
For those of us who marched in New York City on September 21, 2014, we
saw hundreds of thousands of citizens taking to the streets to save
Mother Earth. There was a serious anti-war presence in the march
making the connection between militarization and the destruction of
the earth.
A lame-duck President Obama has, on occasion, done the right
thing—supported the dreamers, recognized the insanity of official U.S.
policy on Cuba and continues to release prisoners from the
concentration camp in Guantanamo. It seems now is the time to
challenge this administration to do more by ending the killer-drone
program, and to convince environmentalists to be vocal critics of the
Pentagon’s role in the destruction of Mother Earth.
The ineffectiveness of drone warfare, and thus the need to end it, is
clear. Thanks to Wikileaks we have access to a July 7, 2009 secret
report produced by the Central Intelligence Agency's Office of
Transnational Issues discussing the failure of drone warfare in making
the world safe. See
commondreams.org/news/2014/12/18/leaked-internal-cia-document-admits-us-drone-program-counterproductive
. "The potential negative effect of HLT [High Level Targets]
operations," the report states, "include increasing the level of
insurgent support […], strengthening an armed group's bonds with the
population, radicalizing an insurgent group's remaining leaders,
creating a vacuum into which more radical groups can enter, and
escalating or de-escalating a conflict in ways that favor the
insurgents.”
The effect of militarization on the environment is clear. By starting
the march at the Environmental Protection Agency, we will try to
encourage environmentalists to join the action. A letter would be sent
to Gina McCarthy, Environmental Protection Agency, Office of the
Administrator, 1101A, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, D.C.
20460, to seek a meeting to discuss the Pentagon’s role in ecocide.
If the EPA refuses to meet with the citizen activists, consideration
would be given to do nonviolent civil resistance at the agency.
A letter would also be sent to Chuck Hagel, The Pentagon, 1400
Defense, Arlington, Virginia 22202, requesting a meeting to discuss
the Climate Crisis, acerbated by U.S. warmongering. Again failure to
get an appropriate response from Hagel’s office could result in
nonviolent civil resistance.
The Call to Action highlights the need for the environmental agency to
recognize the destructive role the military machine plays in climate
chaos and to take action to remediate the situation.
According to Joseph Nevins in Greenwashing the Pentagon Monday, June
14, 2010 [commondreams.org/views/2010/06/14/greenwashing-pentagon],
“The U.S. military is the world’s single biggest consumer of fossil
fuels, and the single entity most responsible for destabilizing the
Earth’s climate.”
The Pentagon is aware that national security could be affected by
climate chaos. However as Nevin tells us, “Such ‘greenwashing’ helps
to mask the fact that the Pentagon devours about 330,000 barrels of
oil per day (a barrel has 42 gallons), more than the vast majority of
the world’s countries. If the U.S. military were a nation-state, it
would be ranked number 37 in terms of oil consumption—ahead of the
likes of the Philippines, Portugal, and Nigeria—according to the CIA
Factbook.”
To see another example of the military’s destructive nature, see
Okinawa: A Small Island Resists U.S. Military's "Pivot to Asia"
[http://fpif.org/okinawa-small-island-trying-block-u-s-militarys-pivot-asia/]
by Christine Ahn, which appeared December 26, 2014 in Foreign Policy
in Focus. We are including some of the points made in the article:
“Takeshi Miyagi, a 44-year old farmer, said he abandoned his fields in
July to join the resistance by monitoring the sea by canoe. Miyagi
says he and other activists are ensuring the protection of the
biologically rich ecosystem of the Henoko and Oura Bays and the
survival of the dugong. The Japanese Ministry of the Environment lists
the dugong — a marine mammal related to the manatee — as “critically
endangered.” It is also on the list of U.S. endangered species.
“Okinawans are also pointing to the historic chemical contamination by
U.S. military bases. Last month, the Japan Ministry of Defense began
excavating at the Okinawa City soccer field where barrels containing
toxic herbicides were discovered last year. In July, the Japanese
government unearthed 88 barrels containing ingredients used to produce
Agent Orange in reclaimed land next to the Kadena Air Force Base.”
Finally, read Climate Change Challenges by Kathy Kelly
[http://vcnv.org/climate-change-challenges]: “. . . it seems the
greatest danger – the greatest violence – that any of us face is
contained in our attacks on our environment. Today’s children and
generations to follow them face nightmares of scarcity, disease, mass
displacement, social chaos, and war, due to our patterns of
consumption and pollution.”
She adds this: “What’s more, the U.S. military, with its more than
7,000 bases, installations, and other facilities, worldwide, is one of
the most egregious polluters on the planet and is the world’s largest
single consumer of fossil fuels. Its terrible legacy of forcing its
own soldiers and their families, over decades, to drink lethally
carcinogenic water on bases that should have been evacuated as
contaminated sites is covered in a recent Newsweek story.”
If you are concerned by the challenges facing Mother Earth and want to
end the killer drone program, get involved with the National Campaign
for Nonviolent Resistance on April 22, Earth Day.
Can you join us in Washington, D.C. for the EPA to the Pentagon?
Can you risk arrest?
Would you be able to sign onto the letters?
If you can’t come to D.C., can you organize a solidarity action?
National Campaign for Nonviolent Resistance
Max Obuszewski mobus...@verizon.net
Ellen Barfield elle...@yahoo.com
Joy First joyf...@gmail.com
Malachy Kilbride malachy...@yahoo.com
Paki Wieland pakiw...@gmail.com
To unsubscribe from this list, just go to
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From: Joy First <joyf...@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 10:38 AM
NCNR Organizing Call February 4, 2015
Present – Max, Malachy, Joy, Ellen
NCNR is organizing a march from the Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA) to the Pentagon on April 22. The purpose is to call for an end
to the destruction of our Mother Earth by the US military through
pollution, depleted uranium, nuclear weapons etc.
Letters – Max is working on a letter to Gina McCarthy, head of the
EPA, and to the Secretary of Defense at the Pentagon. When these
letters are ready they will be circulated for signatures and then
mailed to the EPA and the Pentagon. There will be an attempt to
deliver the letters on April 22.
Program – We are working on lining up a few speakers at the EPA and at
the Pentagon. If you know someone who can talk about these issues
connecting the Pentagon to the destruction of the planet, please
contact joyf...@gmail.com
In the meantime Max, Malachy, and Joy will be contacting possible speakers.
Civil resistance action, risking arrest - There will be a civil
resistance action as we attempt to deliver the letters at the EPA and
at the Pentagon. If you are thinking about risking arrest and want
more information, or if you know you want to risk arrest, please
contact Joy at joyf...@gmail.com
Route – We are working on determining the route for the march from the
EPA to the Pentagon. For those of you who can’t march the four miles,
there will be an option to take the metro from the EPA to the Pentagon
and meet up with the group there. We can communicate via cell
phones to coordinate coming together at the Pentagon.
Outreach – The call to action is attached to this email and pasted in
below. Please share this widely through your lists.
We would also like to encourage peace groups around the country to
share the call with their group. If you are a member of another peace
group, or know of another peace group, please let Joy at
joyf...@gmail.com know that you will be contacting them and asking
them to share the call to action.
Announcements
BIG THANKYOU to Code Pink for action with Kissinger. Dangling
handcuffs in his face. Unbelievable response from McCain.
Remember Plowshares. There was a NY Daily News article about Megan
Rice living in a “hell hole” that has brought attention. There is
going to be an appeal for Plowshares activists on March 12 in
Cincinnati.
David Barrows update – David went to court on Monday. At the last
moment the government filed motion in limine and David’s trial has
been pushed out until the end of May. Charge has mens rea element and
that means David has to talk about why he was there. Mark Goldstone
is working with David on this.
Letter to judges who were involved with CIA 5 trial in October 2013 –
Max is working on a letter to send to the judges and will circulate
when ready.
Next call - March 4
THE NATIONAL CAMPAIGN FOR NONVIOLENT RESISTANCE ISSUES A CALL TO ACTION
January 22, 2015
In times of great injustice and despair, we are called to act from a
place of conscience and courage. For all of you who are sick of heart
over the destruction of the earth through pollution and
militarization, we call on you to get involved in an action-oriented
march that speaks to your heart and mind, marching from the EPA to the
Pentagon on April 22, Earth Day.
For those of us who marched in New York City on September 21, 2014, we
saw hundreds of thousands of citizens taking to the streets to save
Mother Earth. There was a serious anti-war presence in the march
making the connection between militarization and the destruction of
the earth.
A lame-duck President Obama has, on occasion, done the right
thing—supported the dreamers, recognized the insanity of official U.S.
policy on Cuba and continues to release prisoners from the
concentration camp in Guantanamo. It seems now is the time to
challenge this administration to do more by ending the killer-drone
program, and to convince environmentalists to be vocal critics of the
Pentagon’s role in the destruction of Mother Earth.
The ineffectiveness of drone warfare, and thus the need to end it, is
clear. Thanks to Wikileaks we have access to a July 7, 2009 secret
report produced by the Central Intelligence Agency's Office of
Transnational Issues discussing the failure of drone warfare in making
the world safe. See
commondreams.org/news/2014/12/18/leaked-internal-cia-document-admits-us-drone-program-counterproductive
. "The potential negative effect of HLT [High Level Targets]
operations," the report states, "include increasing the level of
insurgent support […], strengthening an armed group's bonds with the
population, radicalizing an insurgent group's remaining leaders,
creating a vacuum into which more radical groups can enter, and
escalating or de-escalating a conflict in ways that favor the
insurgents.”
The effect of militarization on the environment is clear. By starting
the march at the Environmental Protection Agency, we will try to
encourage environmentalists to join the action. A letter would be sent
to Gina McCarthy, Environmental Protection Agency, Office of the
Administrator, 1101A, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, D.C.
20460, to seek a meeting to discuss the Pentagon’s role in ecocide.
If the EPA refuses to meet with the citizen activists, consideration
would be given to do nonviolent civil resistance at the agency.
A letter would also be sent to Chuck Hagel, The Pentagon, 1400
Defense, Arlington, Virginia 22202, requesting a meeting to discuss
the Climate Crisis, acerbated by U.S. warmongering. Again failure to
get an appropriate response from Hagel’s office could result in
nonviolent civil resistance.
The Call to Action highlights the need for the environmental agency to
recognize the destructive role the military machine plays in climate
chaos and to take action to remediate the situation.
According to Joseph Nevins in Greenwashing the Pentagon Monday, June
14, 2010 [commondreams.org/views/2010/06/14/greenwashing-pentagon],
“The U.S. military is the world’s single biggest consumer of fossil
fuels, and the single entity most responsible for destabilizing the
Earth’s climate.”
The Pentagon is aware that national security could be affected by
climate chaos. However as Nevin tells us, “Such ‘greenwashing’ helps
to mask the fact that the Pentagon devours about 330,000 barrels of
oil per day (a barrel has 42 gallons), more than the vast majority of
the world’s countries. If the U.S. military were a nation-state, it
would be ranked number 37 in terms of oil consumption—ahead of the
likes of the Philippines, Portugal, and Nigeria—according to the CIA
Factbook.”
To see another example of the military’s destructive nature, see
Okinawa: A Small Island Resists U.S. Military's "Pivot to Asia"
[http://fpif.org/okinawa-small-island-trying-block-u-s-militarys-pivot-asia/]
by Christine Ahn, which appeared December 26, 2014 in Foreign Policy
in Focus. We are including some of the points made in the article:
“Takeshi Miyagi, a 44-year old farmer, said he abandoned his fields in
July to join the resistance by monitoring the sea by canoe. Miyagi
says he and other activists are ensuring the protection of the
biologically rich ecosystem of the Henoko and Oura Bays and the
survival of the dugong. The Japanese Ministry of the Environment lists
the dugong — a marine mammal related to the manatee — as “critically
endangered.” It is also on the list of U.S. endangered species.
“Okinawans are also pointing to the historic chemical contamination by
U.S. military bases. Last month, the Japan Ministry of Defense began
excavating at the Okinawa City soccer field where barrels containing
toxic herbicides were discovered last year. In July, the Japanese
government unearthed 88 barrels containing ingredients used to produce
Agent Orange in reclaimed land next to the Kadena Air Force Base.”
Finally, read Climate Change Challenges by Kathy Kelly
[http://vcnv.org/climate-change-challenges]: “. . . it seems the
greatest danger – the greatest violence – that any of us face is
contained in our attacks on our environment. Today’s children and
generations to follow them face nightmares of scarcity, disease, mass
displacement, social chaos, and war, due to our patterns of
consumption and pollution.”
She adds this: “What’s more, the U.S. military, with its more than
7,000 bases, installations, and other facilities, worldwide, is one of
the most egregious polluters on the planet and is the world’s largest
single consumer of fossil fuels. Its terrible legacy of forcing its
own soldiers and their families, over decades, to drink lethally
carcinogenic water on bases that should have been evacuated as
contaminated sites is covered in a recent Newsweek story.”
If you are concerned by the challenges facing Mother Earth and want to
end the killer drone program, get involved with the National Campaign
for Nonviolent Resistance on April 22, Earth Day.
Can you join us in Washington, D.C. for the EPA to the Pentagon?
Can you risk arrest?
Would you be able to sign onto the letters?
If you can’t come to D.C., can you organize a solidarity action?
National Campaign for Nonviolent Resistance
Max Obuszewski mobus...@verizon.net
Ellen Barfield elle...@yahoo.com
Joy First joyf...@gmail.com
Malachy Kilbride malachy...@yahoo.com
Paki Wieland pakiw...@gmail.com
To unsubscribe from this list, just go to
https://lists.riseup.net/www/sigrequest/nodrones - if you are having
trouble, please just email nodron...@gmail.com
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