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Stop the Militarization of our Communities!!!

February 1, 2022 By Bob Kinsey

Dear Friends,

Join us this coming Friday for the First Friday Film & Discussion that we are cosponsoring with First Unitarian Society – Madison and many others who are united for peace and justice.

 

Friday, February 4, 2022 – 6:30 – 8 pm

We will be showing two short documentary films:

1. Jetline: Voices from the Flight Path, and 

2. When the Jets Fly: New Warplanes Turn US Towns Into Sonic Hellscapes. 

Residents of Whidbey Island on the west coast & Burlington, Vermont on the east coast are being traumatized by US fighter jets. Madison, Wisconsin could be next. Learn what people are doing to resist the militarization of our communities.

A discussion led by local and national leaders will follow the film showings. 

* Retired Air Force Colonel Rosanne Greco spent 30 years in active service specializing in strategic intelligence, nuclear weapons and arms control. Former chair of the South Burlington City Council and an active Unitarian Universalist, Greco has been fighting the basing of F-35s in Vermont for ten years.

* Omar Poler lives in the Eken Park neighborhood of Madison and has been organizing with his neighbors to stop the F-35 “beddown” and protect water from PFAS contamination. He is a member of Eken Park Resistance and likes to be outside with his wife, Twyla, and two young children. 

* Terra Huey is the social media coordinator for the Sound Defense Alliance, a coalition of groups throughout Northwest Washington and the Salish Sea representing thousands of Washingtonians. SDA is recognized for getting Real-Time Noise Monitoring into the National Defense Authorization Act, passed last year by Congress.

Register for Zoom Link to Film & Discussion at:

https://tinyurl.com/FebFilmNoF35

A link to the event will be sent to your email address soon after you register and again after 6pm on Friday, 2/4. Registration ends at 6pm on Friday, 2/4. For more information call Tim at 608-630-3633.

Please help us spread the word by sharing this Facebook event: https://tinyurl.com/FFFFeb4NoF35Fb

February First Friday Films with First Unitarian Society: Films and Talk about F35s in Madison, WI
February Fourth First Friday Film & Discussion – 2/4/22 – 6:30 – 8 pm Join First Unitarian Society – Madison, Safe Skies Clean Water Wisconsin, and other unity builders for the next First Friday Film… 

 

Cosponsors of this event include:

CodePink, Safe Skies Clean Water Coalition, WI Unitarian Universalist State Action Network, Family Farm Defenders, Eken Park Resistance, Interfaith Peace Working Group, WI Network for Peace & Justice, Sound Defense Alliance, Peace Action-WI, Madison Vets for Peace, and Nukewatch.

In Solidarity,
Christine Manwiller, for Nukewatch

Filed Under: Events, Uncategorized

About Bob Kinsey

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Disarmament Quotes

Viewing Trinity Test July 16,1945: "Now we are all Sons of Bitches"

Kenneth BainbridgeDeputy Director Manhatten Project

“Everything I did at Kings Bay was a result of my faith and my commitment to challenge the idols whose only purpose is to destroy human life on an unimaginable scale. I went to Kings Bay to use my body to refuse to bow down to these idols. I went to try to bring attention to the idolatry that it is requiring of our nation and its people. I went in a spirit of prayer and repentance. I went in hope that this witness might invite other people to reflect on the obscenity and on the idolatry that it is before God.”

Liz McAlisterKings Bay Protestor 2019

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending he sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children...This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the cloud of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron." --spoken to the American Society of Newspaper Editors 1953

Dwight EisenhowerUS President 1953-1961

We are prone to self-righteousness if we call ourselves peacemakers, and yet do not perceive how the peace issue cuts through all the economic and social issues that we often try to keep separate. If the race for nuclear arms is encouraged by our fear of losing the affluent ways of life that we have taken for granted, then we must see how our fears and desires have left so many other human beings naked and hungry.

Malsolm Warford"The Church's Role in a Nuclear Age

A world free of the threat of nuclear weapons is necessarily a world devoid of nuclear weapons…. Nuclear weapons pose an intolerable threat to humanity and our habitat…. Others subscribe to Churchill’s assertion ‘Peace is the sturdy child of terror.’ For me, such a peace is a wretched offspring, a peace that condemns us to live under a dark cloud of perpetual anxiety, a peace that codifies mankind’s most murderous instincts….The beast must be chained, its soul expunged, its lair laid waste.

General Lee ButlerFormer Commander, Strategic Air Command, April 28, 1996

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