JOIN OUR CAMPAIGN of NONVIOLENT RESISTANCE TO MILITARY DRONES & WAR!
October 13-19, 2024: Fall Action Week: Creech AFB, NV (near Las Vegas)
April 19-26, 2025: Spring Action Week: Holloman AFB, Southern NM
Sponsored by Veterans For Peace, Ban Killer Drones & CODEPINK
Note: The week's schedule is still being developed. Thanks for your patience. We are volunteers for peace!
Spring Action 2024, Holloman AFB
RECENT CHANGES:
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 our fall action week; Creech is still the central command center for the illegal US drone warfare complex. Our spring
action week takes place at Holloman AFB, near Alamogordo, New Mexico.
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!
SHUT DOWN DRONE WARFARE!
Fall Action Week: October 13-19, 2024
Creech Killer Drone Base, Indian Springs, Nevada
(North of Las Vegas)
Co-sponsored by CODEPINK, Veterans for Peace & Ban Killer Drones
Mark your calendars & Join Us!
Come for all or part of the Action week!
(Please register even if you are unsure of your exact plans. This helps us tremendously in best meeting everyone's needs.)
US drones are flying over Gaza, 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 fall action week! Our campaign is more relevant than ever before.
Background:
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.
Participation in peaceful resistance is voluntary, and low risk support
folks are equally needed. On April 24 at Holloman drone training base 6
activists were arrested for peaceful resistance. Thus far, charges
have either been dismissed or sentences minimal.
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
peaceful and non-confrontational protests. Our 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. We offer alternatives and support to the new
recruits and other employees, via signs, banners and leaflets that offer
resources for 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)
-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. Risking arrest is voluntary during direct action, and there are many other
roles throughout the week that are equally important. We will also
create lots of time in-between for nature,
team-building, and just plain old peacemaking fun!
Hope to see you soon!
SHUT DOWN DRONE WARFARE TEAM,
Creech Action Organizers: Virginia, Denise and Toby
Holloman Action Organizers: Virginia, Ken, Denise, Charles, Toby, & 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