by Harry Richardson and Barb Smith of Safe Skies Clean Water Wisconsin As many residents will tell you, noise from both commercial and military aircraft at the county airport is a burden to those living on the east and north sides of Madison. The proposed deployment of a squadron of F-35 fighter jets will greatly […]
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F-16 Noise Survey ~ Share Your Opinion ~
Safe Skies Clean Water is sponsoring an F-16 fighter jet noise survey. Your survey responses will be compiled and shared with you, the public, and officials from Madison, Dane County Board, County Airport and Truax Field. We hope the survey will have a high participation rate so that we can conclusively show to our community leaders, the […]
Cap Times: F-35 Project is the Military-industrial Complex at its Worst
John Nichols | September 17, 2019 “Let’s review some headlines from the past several years regarding Lockheed Martin’s F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program, shall we?” Cap Times: F-35 Project is the Military-industrial Complex at its Worst Wisconsin has a rich tradition of objecting to the absurd excesses of the military-industrial complex. It goes back […]
An Update on the F-35 Resistance – A Public Affair – Thursday w/ Allen Ruff
The fight to keep F-35 fighter jets from “bedding down” in Madison has not stopped. We persist. A Public Affair Radio Program… An update from the F-35 RESISTANCE Sign on in support of Eken Park Resistance letter.
Sign the letter: Eken Park Resists the F-35 Jets & Military Industrial Complex
If you’d like to learn more,or sign on in support… please be in touch with Eken Park Resistance at ekenparkresistance@gmail.com Link to —> Eken Park Resistance Letter Dear Community Leaders, In April, our neighborhood learned that we face a bleak future––one that will disproportionately impact those of us who are people of color, low […]
Faith Leaders Oppose F-35 Fighter Jets, Wisconsin State Journal 7-29-2020
A full-page ad appeared in the Wisconsin State Journal today – July 29, 2020 – speaking against the F-35 fighter jets for reasons of social and environmental justice, and world peace. It’s signed by a long list of clergy and other faith leaders who call the proposed deployment “morally offensive”. Wisconsin State Journal Ad, Faith […]
Scientific American: Defund the Pentagon, Too
Let’s Defund the Pentagon, Too | 8 July 2020 | John Horgan Related Links: The Poor People’s Campaign: Moral Budget cuts the military budget Defund the Pentagon – Contact your representatives People over Pentagon original article We must begin moving beyond militarism, as Martin Luther King urged more than 50 years ago “Toward the end […]
Uncle Sam: clean up your mess
Wisconsin State Journal | 27 May 2020 | Brad Geyer I live next to the Truax Field military base in Madison. The U.S. government has poisoned the water and should clean it up. The federal government plans to spend more than $50 million to expand the base. It plans to bring in a squadron of […]
Decision to base F-35s in Madison ignores public health concerns
The Cap Times | 29 April 2020 | Bruce Barrett and Paula Rogge original letter “Today we are dealing with the COVID-19 crisis. Our federal, state and local government officials have been working hard to contain the pandemic, and the public has followed social distancing instructions to “flatten the curve” until effective testing, […]
Air Force picks Truax for F-35 base; Madison opponents consider legal response
The Cap Times | 15 April 2020 | Steven Elbow original article While the U.S. Air Force cleared the final bureaucratic hurdle Wednesday to bring a squadron of F-35 fighter jets to Truax Field, opponents say they might take to the courts to stop the move. “We have retained some attorneys a while ago […]