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DESCRIPTION:Mt. Diablo Peace & Justice Center \npresents\nMedea Benjamin\nWednesday, 
 June 20, 7:00 PM\n\nOak View Room, Walnut Creek Library, \n1644 North 
 Broadway, Walnut Creek \n\nWeeks after the 2002 American invasion of 
 Afghanistan, Medea Benjamin visited that country. There, on the ground, 
 talking with victims of the strikes, she learned the reality behind the 
 "precision bombs" on which U.S. forces were becoming increasingly reliant. 
 Now, with the use of drones escalating at a meteoric pace, Benjamin has 
 written "Drone Warfare: Killing by Remote Control" as a call to action: "It 
 is meant to wake a sleeping public," she writes, "lulled into thinking that 
 drones are good, that targeted killings are making us safer."\n\nDrone 
 Warfare is a comprehensive look at the growing menace of robotic warfare, 
 with an extensive analysis of who is producing the drones, where they are 
 being used, who "pilots" these unmanned planes, who are the victims and 
 what are the legal and moral implications. In vivid, readable style, the 
 book also looks at what activists, lawyers and scientists are doing to 
 ground the drones, and ways to move forward.\nIn reality, writes Benjamin, 
 the assassinations we are carrying out via drones will come back to haunt 
 us when others start doing the same thing--to us.\n  \nBook sale and 
 signing following presentation.\nSuggested donation: $15 general, $12 Peace 
 Center members, $5 Students with current ID\nNo one turned away for lack of 
 funds.\nWheelchair accessible\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/06/05/18714823.php
SUMMARY:Mt. Diablo Peace & Justice Center presents Medea Benjamin
LOCATION:Walnut Creek Library, Oak View Room\n1644 North Broadway\nWalnut Creek, CA 
 94596
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/06/05/18714823.php
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