JOIN OUR CAMPAIGN of NONVIOLENT RESISTANCE TO MILITARY DRONES & WAR!
SHUT DOWN DRONE WARFARE!
April 20-26, 2025
Spring Action Week: Holloman AFB
Alamogordo, Southern New Mexico
16 years of persistent resistance! Come for all or part of the week!
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Spring Action 2024, Holloman AFB
NO U.S. DRONES for GENOCIDE! FREE PALESTINE!
Why Holloman AFB?
To oppose and resist the horrors of U.S. drone assassination, for many years we held weeklong Fall and Spring protests at Creech AFB, the "US Command Central" drone base located near Las Vegas, Nevada. In 2023 we expanded our Drone Resistance Campaign to include
Holloman Air Force Base in southern New Mexico, where 700+ drone pilots and operators are trained annually! Our new name is SHUT DOWN DRONE WARFARE!
(Previously known as "Shut Down Creech") We will continue to return to
Creech AFB, Nevada, for fall action weeks; Creech is still the central command center for the illegal US drone warfare complex. Our spring
action weeks now take place at Holloman AFB, near Alamogordo, in Southern New Mexico. Our goal: To break the silence, educate the public and the military, peacefully interrupt "business as usual," and promote GI Resistance in the U.S. military.
As nonviolent "angelic troublemakers" we declare Zero Tolerance for remote-controlled killing and surveillance...RESIST! Join Us!
Check Out Our First Action at Holloman HERE!
April 20-26, 2025:
Spring Action Week: Holloman AFB, Southern NM
Mark your calendars & Join Us!
Come for all or part of the Action week!
Along with Israeli drones, US drones continue to fly over Gaza and the West Bank, terrorizing communities and aiding and abetting in the ongoing slaughter of Palestinians!
Tens
of thousands have been killed with the support of US weapons and the
assistance of US drones. "STOP the GENOCIDE" will be a central theme of
our Spring Action Week! Our anti-drone campaign is more relevant now than ever before. Palestine will continue to take front stage in our actions.
More about Us:
This is an ongoing national mobilization
and anti-drone/anti-war campaign, with participants from across the
country.
Please join us & bring friends to our Nevada and/or New Mexico
actions. Want to join one of our working groups for upcoming actions?
Live near a drone base or other military base and want to help expand
our campaign of resistance to drones and war? Please contact us!
Our
action week includes am and pm themed vigils during commute hours
throughout the week, culminating in a day of nonviolent direct action mid-week.
Participation in peaceful resistance is voluntary, and low risk support roles are equally needed. On April 24, 2024, at Holloman drone training base, 6
activists were arrested for peaceful resistance. All charges
have either been dismissed or sentences very minimal (community service or nominal fine).
Why We Continue Our Resistance at Creech?
Creech
AFB in Nevada is understood to be the “grandfather” of all U.S. drone
bases: The covert U.S. drone assassination program started there, and
it remains the central control center in a complex assassin drone base
network. "Shut Down Creech," started in 2009, with
successful bi-annual week-long peaceful protests thru 2022. We believe our persistence has contributed greatly to the rapid turnover of drone pilots and operators in the program.
Our
goal is to return to Creech AFB each fall for week-long protests until
drone assassination ceases. The primary strategy to achieve this goal is
to facilitate and support GI RESISTANCE.
For better understanding please watch: SIR NO SIR, an important
documentary about GI resistance during the 10 year US war on Vietnam. GI
resistance was a key factor that ended that horrific war. WATCH HERE.
Why We Expanded to Holloman? After many years of bi-annual protests at Creech, the drone pilot/operator training program was moved from Creech to Holloman
Air Force Base. Was that because our persistent protests at Creech had
an impact? Newer recruits are more likely to be influenced by our impactful and non-confrontational protests. Our varied and innovative vigil themes
stir up a "Call to Conscience."
The
secrecy of the drone program keeps it from the public
eye. "Drone strikes" are rarely mentioned in the media or by the
military, and the term "Air Strikes” provides convenient “shelter" from
public scrutiny. Our week of action uncovers the secrecy and educates
the local community, as well as the base employees! Equally important:
The inhumane US drone program causes deep moral injury to our military
personnel themselves, where suicide rates are high. We offer alternatives and support to the new
recruits and other employees, via signs, banners and leaflets that offer
resources and GI support.
What we do know:
-Holloman AFB is the #1 producer of drone pilots and operators in the U.S.! It "graduates more than 700 students annually.” (per Holloman’s website)
-Holloman currently hosts the Royal Air Force RPAS (Remotely Piloted Aircraft System) Formal Training Unit (FTU) and the Italian Air Force RPA training courses.
-Modern
warfare has increasingly become a technical warfare using remotely controlled
killing machines and autonomous weaponry globally. Led by the U.S. and Israel, countries are racing to
obtain the most advanced drones and robotic weapons to compete with a
very frightening global reality. Read attached articles about the role
of drones in Gaza and Ukraine.
U.S.
MQ-9 Reaper drones are currently being used in Gaza to assist Israel in
surveillance work during it's current genocidal campaign. It is unknown
whether these same drones are also being used in targeted assassination
in Gaza. We do know that it is a very secret program, and any U.S.
military veteran or personnel faces a potential harsh prison sentence if
they leak the truth about U.S. drone warfare crimes. Daniel Hale, one
such drone whistleblower, recently completed a 45 month sentence for
doing so: StandWithDanielHale.org Thank you for your courage and sacrifice Daniel.
We
also know that there are U.S. special forces on the ground in Gaza,
covertly assisting Israel in hunting out Hamas in it's network of
tunnels. Aaron Bushnell, the 25 yr. old active duty airmen who
tragically committed self-immolation on February 25, 2024 to expose the U.S.
complicity in the genocide in Gaza, revealed this truth to a close friend just a day before his "extreme act of protest." We
will put Gaza front and center in our protests,
and we will publicly pay tribute to Aaron Bushnell for his courageous
though very tragic act of protest.
A more violent world is being created in our name, with our tax dollars and it must stop!
Won't You Join Us?
SHUT DOWN DRONE WARFARE!
Diplomacy not War…Stop Militarism for the Planet!
-Come for all or part of our spring and fall action weeks. (Combine it with exploring the beautiful southwest New Mexico desert)
-We need help! Please contact us and join a “working group.” (Areas
of need: logistics/meal-planning, artistry/banner-making/vigil ideas,
nonviolence and peace-keeper training, legal observers training,
promotional/outreach/social media, entertainment, and much more).
-Will you ask your organization to sponsor or endorse? Please contact us!
-We
will pledge to nonviolent action and do daily am and pm vigils during
commute hours, M-F. Risking arrest is voluntary during our direct action day, April 23, and there are many other
roles that are equally important. We will also
create lots of time in-between am & pm vigils for nature,
team-building, and just plain old peacemaking fun & joy!
Hope to see you soon!
SHUT DOWN DRONE WARFARE TEAM,
Creech Fall Action Organizers: Virginia, Denise and Toby
2025 Spring Action Organizers: Toby, Scott, Greg, Nick, Charles, Fred, Kathy & Edwina
RELEVANT ARTICLES:
About Holloman:
-US airman Aaron Bushnell claimed to have classified knowledge of US forces fighting in Gaza tunnels on night before setting himself on fire
-US surveillance drones flying over Gaza to help with hostage search -Families of US troops in shock as they deploy to Gaza coast to build emergency pier -US special forces deployed to help Israel track down hostages held in Gaza
Drones in the Ukraine War:
Drones Program