One approach to prevent the F-35 fighter jets from coming to Truax Field is changing the mission of the 115th Fighter Wing to one of the other 44 missions available to Air National Guard units. Safe Skies has asked Governor Evers and Adjutant General Knapp of the Wisconsin National Guard to evaluate a new mission […]
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Pushing Billions in Arms Sales Is Not an ‘Accomplishment’
It matters to whom the weapons are flowing and how they will be used William D. Hartung December 19, 2020 Director, Arms and Security Project at the Center for International Policy original article https://www.defenseone.com/ideas/2020/12/pushing-billions-arms-sales-not-accomplishment/170900/ “Earlier this month, the Pentagon and the State Department did their annual briefing on U.S. arms sales. The gist […]
WPR : Lawmakers Seek To Strip DNR’s Ability To Regulate PFAS Foam Under Emergency Rule
Bill Limiting DNR Authority To Be Introduced In State Assembly, Senate By Danielle Kaeding WPR Published: Thursday, December 17, 2020, 4:00pmOpen article to listen to audio Link to original article Link to Safe Skies PFAS page “Republican lawmakers want to rein in environmental regulators and restrict their ability to regulate firefighting foam containing so-called forever […]
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 […]
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 […]