Nina Berman, the maker of the film “When Jets Fly,” will be my guest next Thursday noon, 12/30 on WORT’s “A Public Affair” Feel free to spread the word. -Allen When the Jets Fly: New Warplanes Turn U.S. Towns Into Sonic Hellscapes U.S. communities are beset by deafening roars from a generation of louder military […]
F-35
Resolution before County Committees April 13 & 14: register/speak
This week two committees will consider a County Resolution opposing the F-35s and calling for PFAS clean-up. Please take a couple minutes to register on the below items, and feel free to share. Sharing with those around Dane County is greatly encouraged. 1) Before 5pm tomorrow, Tuesday, 4/13, click here to register in support of Res-548 […]
Water is Life Event: Apr 3 @ 12 -3 pm City-County Bldg, Madison
Agua es vida, para todos los seres del mundo Water is life, for all beings of the world Join together in an act of care for our water and environmental justice for our community. Saturday April 3rd 2021, 12 – 3 pm City-County Building, 210 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd, Madison The wells and waterways […]
Lawsuit #2: Safe Skies Clean Water Wisconsin, Press Conference 3.10.21
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 F-35, the Covid stimulus bill, and Congress’s unbalanced priorities
Link to sign Roots Action: Petition to Cancel F-35 Program March 8, 2021, 4:36 AM CST By Hayes Brown, MSNBC Opinion Columnist original article “Is it weird to hate a plane? I don’t mean in the flying or air travel sense; I mean a plane. Specifically, the F-35 II Lighting, aka the Joint Strike […]
Cap Times Editorial: The Fight Against F-35s is Far from Finished
Capital Times Editorial, 3 March 2021 [note: the struggle here involves stopping the F-35’s but also to stop the toxic pollution by forever chemicals and have those responsible clean up the pollution of our soil and water] “Members of the Dane County Board of Supervisors are again wrestling with questions about how to rethink, […]
The F-35 is a Failure
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 […]
Mark Pocan to Chief of Staff of the Air Force
Dear General Brown: “I write today to inquire about recent comments you made regarding a review of the United States Air Force (USAF) tactical aviation force and the future the F-35A,1 a mission the Air Force already selected for Truax Air National Guard Base in my district. While it has been made abundantly clear that […]
Bombardment of Hearing is Unethical: Stop the US Government
Richard Joseph of Cancel the F-35 26 February 2021 Cancel the F-35 is from James Marc Leas. Richard: (I asked Roger A Boshes MD PhD, Professor, Harvard Medical School who has spent a lifetime studying the human brain, to comment on the effect on children of repeated exposure to high decibel military jet noise. His […]
Costs -> Powerless
Move the people or move the jets: stop building housing for poor and people of color where it is noisiest and the most polluted. Stop handing the costs to the powerless and the profits to the powerful. These are flaws in the market. #corruption #externalized costs Environmental Racism Causes People of Color to Face Compound […]