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DESCRIPTION:Modern warfare has come to rely more and more on killer drones, making war 
 increasingly insulated from direct human contact. The technology, while 
 flawed, has made it easier to engage in our forever wars without causing 
 citizen outrage as was seen during the time of the war with Vietnam.\n\nBut 
 there has been organized resistance to the use of these killing machines, 
 primarily aimed at the pilots and support personnel who operate them. 
 Protests have centered on the call to refuse to fly killer drones. The 
 deeper goal of protestors goes beyond ending the use of these weapons, to 
 demilitarizing our society from the ground up.\n\nThis webinar will focus 
 on drone technology and current concerns about its use in Iran, Ukraine, 
 and elsewhere. In addition, presenters, with many years of experience in 
 protest, education and outreach to the U.S. military and the communities 
 where they live, will share strategies and lessons learned, and the 
 benefits of nonviolent direct action.\n\nPresenters\n\nNick Mottern is 
 co-coordinator, with Kathy Kelly, of BanKillerDrones.org, which has, since 
 2011, assisted with education and non-violent direct action at killer drone 
 control centers inside the U.S., particularly at Creech AFB in Nevada, 
 Hancock Air Guard base in Syracuse, NY, and Holloman AFB in Alamogordo, 
 NM.\n\nToby Blomé has been organizing ongoing and weeklong protests at US 
 drone bases since 2009, that have included Creech AFB in Nevada, Beale AFB 
 in California, and, since 2023, Holloman AFB, in New Mexico, the largest 
 drone training base in the US. She is co-founder and coordinator of 
 ShutDownDroneWarfare.org., and is also a member of BanKillerDrones.org. In 
 2024, she co-founded the PeoplesArmsEmbargo.org, helping to organize 
 protests at Travis AFB in Fairfield, CA, due to it’s complicity in aiding 
 the genocidal campaign in Gaza.\n\nMary Anne Grady Flores is a longtime 
 internationalist, a Catholic Worker, a grandmother, and justice and peace 
 activist. Her organizing with Upstate Drone Action has focused on ending 
 MQ-9 Reapers - killer drones -murdering Black and Brown people from the 
 Global South specifically from Hancock Drone Airbase that shares its campus 
 with Syracuse’s civilian international airport. She is keen on connecting 
 issues of environmental destruction propelled by racist industrial-scale, 
 never-ending wars, profiting only the weapons manufacturers. Mary Anne 
 says, “The tension lies in how we hold ourselves to account and those in 
 power. How much are we willing to sacrifice?”\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2026/07/23/18887631.php
SUMMARY:Webinar: Refuse to Fly Killer Drones
LOCATION:Zoom\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/fsJylcBIQ6G8yZheNAoSQw
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2026/07/23/18887631.php
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