Sunday, July 29, 2012

Whatcom Peace & Justice And VFP Chapter 111 Welcome Author and CODEPINK Cofounder Medea Benjamin

→I had the good fortune to hear Medea speak about the use of killer drones as they become the latest product of the military industrial complex worldwide.  I remember how horrified I was when 60 minutes showed the new way.  It looked like youngsters I've seen playing video games.  Medea speaks about the place we find ourselves with conviction, passion, humor and is incredibly well informed.  She inspires me to keep trying to save the planet so all our descendants have a home.  There is no planet B

Increasing alarm is widespread among activists and intellectuals nationwide about the use of killer drones in modern warfare. Medea Benjamin will address this in a presentation of her new book Drone Warfare: Killing by Remote Control, a comprehensive look at how drones are being used to assassinate people around the world, the legal and moral implications, and how to build a movement to rein in the drones. It also looks at how drones are coming to local police departments, and what that means for our privacy rights.

“In this remarkably cogent and carefully researched book, Medea Benjamin makes it clear that drones are not just another high-tech military trinket,” Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Nickel and Dimed, wrote about the book. “Drone Warfare sketches out the nightmare possibilities posed by this insane proliferation.”

Drone Warfare explores 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.

In 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.    


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check out Medea at Global Exchange and Code Pink  and drones at Code Pink

Get your copy of Medea's book  Drone Warfare: Killing by Remote Control  at Global Exchange

“In this remarkably cogent and carefully researched book, Medea Benjamin makes it clear that drones are not just another high-tech military trinket. Drone Warfare sketches out the nightmare possibilities posed by this insane proliferation.” —Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Nickel and Dimed

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