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 […]
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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 […]
News Release – North and Eastside State Legislative Candidates Respond to Safe Skies Clean Water Questionnaire; Oppose F-35 Jets at Truax Field
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 3, 2020 North and Eastside State Legislative Candidates Respond to Safe Skies Clean Water Questionnaire; Oppose F-35 Jets at Truax Field Responding to a questionnaire from Safe Skies Clean Water Wisconsin, most candidates for the State Legislature in districts surrounding Dane County Airport are opposed to the stationing of F-35 fighter […]
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 […]
More PFAS contamination found in airport runoff
The Wisconsin State Journal | 6 May, 2020 | Chris Hubbuch original article “Dane County says it has found additional sources of harmful chemicals in water that drains from the Madison airport and plans to test a new technology for treating the water. The county said in a news release issued Wednesday afternoon that […]
PFAS, COVID and potential environmental racism
The draft environmental impact study acknowledged that there will be “significant disproportionate impacts to low-income and minority populations as well as children.” Although much of the US government is phasing out fluorine based firefighting foam use, due to having jets with composite bodies like the Lockheed Martin F-35, the fluorine based foams will continue to be […]
High PFAS toxin levels found in Starkweather Creek sediment [by Truax Field ANG base]
The Cap Times | 24 April 2020 | Steven Elbow Original Article Starkweather Creek Watershed Map “Test results of PFAS in troubled Starkweather Creek sediment show high levels for one of the more toxic varieties of the chemical group. [per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances] The results add to concerns about PFAS pollution in the creek, […]