Showing posts with label campus anti-drone activity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label campus anti-drone activity. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 13, 2014

SUNRISE ANTI - DRONE WAR PROTEST TO ADDRESS OBAMA AT WEST POINT COMMENCEMENT

Join us, if you think that war criminals
 should not be inspiring our next
 generation of graduates
An anti-drone war protest is planned to address President Obama when he comes to West Point on Wednesday morning, May 28 to speak at the graduation of the Class of 2014.   

Protesters are asked to gather at 6:45 am near the Stoney Lonesome Gate of West Point just off Route 9W, one exit north of the exit leading to Highland Falls, NY, home of West Point.   The protest will end shortly before 10 am when the commencement is scheduled to begin.


Please RSVP as soon as possible to assist in planning.    
Write: nickmottern@earthlink.net  or call at (914) 806-6179.


The Spring Days of Drone Action
 continue nationwide! CLICK HERE
 for more information.




Saturday, March 8, 2014

NYC Screening of Wounds of Waziristan in NYC

Join Amy Goodman of Democracy Now and Madiha Tahir, the film's maker, for a screening of Wounds of Waziristan, a documentary chronicling the impact of the U.S. drone campaign in the tribal regions of Pakistan, this Wednesday March 12 from 6-8 PM at Lerner Hall on the campus of Columbia University. 
Wounds of Waziristan: to be screened 3/12/14, 6 pm at Columbia University
While the event is free, seating is limited, so click here to reserve a spot.

Thursday, October 17, 2013

Oct 23: Albany "No Drones" Workship with Rafia Zakaria


Workshop for Anti-Drone Activists
with Journalist Rafia Zakaria
 
Pakistani-American journalist for DAWN, Pakistan’s largest English-language paper. Also featured in NY Times, Huffington Post, The Nation & Al Jazeera. Lawyer & Director of Muslim Women’s Legal Defense Fund representing domestic violence survivors.
 
Rafia will also speak on:
 
Wed Oct 23, 2013   3:30-5 pm
 
The Impact of the War on Terror and Pakistani Women
Assembly Hall, Campus Center
University at Albany (Uptown Campus)
 
Co-sponsors: UAlbany Department of Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies; UUP Albany Chapter (Peace & Justice Committee); UAlbany Peace Action
 
 
Thurs Oct 24, 2013  1- 2:20 PM
 
Women in Pakistan
Bush Memorial Auditorium, Russell Sage College, Congress and First St., Troy
Student Assembly - Public Welcome
 
Co-sponsors: The WORLD General Education Program and the Department of History and Society at Russell Sage College
 
 
Wed Oct 23, 2013  
7 pm
 
Debunking the Myths of Drone Warfare: A Workshop for Activists
 
Westminster Presbyterian Church
85 Chestnut St. Albany
 
Co-sponsors:
Fellowship of Reconciliation, Grannies for Peace, Bethlehem Neighbors for Peace, 
 Interfaith Alliance of NYS
Justice Committee of the Sisters of St. Joseph, Albany Province
Muslim Solidarity Committee Palestinian Rights Committee
Project SALAM
UAlbany Peace Action
Upper Hudson Peace Action Veterans for Peace
 
 
 
 
Rafia Zakaria’s Visit
Organized by
Women Against War Info@WomenAgainstWar.org