With a focus on the current terrible dangers of nuclear war and the imperative of taking action to reduce them, the Defuse Nuclear War live stream marks the 40th anniversary of when a million people gathered in Central Park for nuclear disarmament on June 12, 1982. This online serves as a catalyst for grassroots organizing….
Channel 3000 | Posted: January 13, 2022 MADISON, Wis. — Local activists gathered at the Dane County Regional Airport on Thursday to protest the transition to new F-35 jets at the airport. Demonstrators said they want local officials to stop the construction of new facilities to handle the planes at Truax Field and instead clean…
The meeting has been recorded and can be accessed tomorrow morning on the WNG PFAS site: https://ng.wi.gov/pfas along with an email for comments. Comment period is 30 days, up to 2/14/22. Comments may be emailed to william.myer.2@us.af.mil. January 11 at 6:00 pm, MATC’s Mitby Theatre: Open house on PFAS investigation. Officials with the National Guard and…
WORT-FM, Madison, Wisconsin | DECEMBER 30, 2021 BY A PUBLIC AFFAIRCommunities across the country are living with military fighter jets overhead. Here in Madison, F35 Jets are scheduled to bed down in early 2022, despite public outcry. A new film by documentarian, photographer, Nina Berman, “When Jets Fly” shows the experiences in Whidbey Island off the coast of Seattle….
December 17, 2021, The Intercept | by Nina Berman Read online U.S. communities are beset by deafening roars from a generation of louder military aircraft — and they are fighting back. THE SOUND of the U.S. military’s latest generation of warplanes is quite literally deafening. The vibration shakes your insides. Conversation stops. Stress floods your…
Watch “The Trauma of Fighter Jets”, a video created by filmmakers in Burlington, Vermont about the impact of the F-35s in their community. Hear about what some other groups are facing and doing about it. Whidbey Island’s Sound Defense Alliance in Washington State is dealing with hundreds of “Growler” flights each week, among other things….
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July 7, 2021 This event is being held to stop the Canadian government from buying a new fleet of costly-carbon intensive combat aircraft, find out more about the #NoNewFighterJets campaign here: www.nofighterjets.ca This webinar features peace activists from Canada, Israel, Wisconsin and Vermont about how they are resisting the procurement, use and basing of fighter…
Video recording of the press conference announcing the recent lawsuit. It’s available here on Youtube. (comments are disabled) Safe Skies Clean Water Wisconsin filed a lawsuit on March 10, 2021 in the U.S. District Court of Washington, D.C. against the U.S. Air Force for preparation of a faulty and illegal Environmental Impact Statement (EIS). The…
The Pentagon has spent about $1.7 trillion on a jet that Trump loved to talk about. But the military never got its money’s worth. MSNBC’s Brian Williams explains. Aired on 02/25/2021. The US Air Force Quietly Admits the F-35 Is a Failure <https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/320295-the-us-air-force-quietly-admits-the-f-35-is-a-failure> By Joel Hruska on February 25, 2021 “The Air Force has…