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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Institute for Public Accuracy . [mailto:accuracy@accuracy.org]
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<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, September 26, 2017 3:43 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> francis.a.boyle@gmail.com<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Killer Drone Protesters Arrested<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Just Security just published the piece: "How Obama's Drones Rulebook Enabled Trump." Last week, the <em><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">New
York Times</span></em> reported: "Trump Poised to Drop Some Limits on Drone Strikes and Commando Raids."</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="http://www.syracuse.com/crime/index.ssf/2017/09/drone_protesters_block_hancock_air_base_in_dewitt_with_bloody_dollar_signs_7_arr.html" target="_blank">Syracuse.com</a>
reports that: "Seven drone protesters were arrested</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt">
<span class="aqj">Monday</span> morning at the Hancock Field Air National Guard Base in DeWitt.</span><br>
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<span style="font-size:13.5pt">"The Upstate Drone Action protesters blocked the entrance to the base with several large signs and banners, and refused to remove them.</span><br>
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<span style="font-size:13.5pt">"'Officers from the base came out and told us to leave, and when we didn't, we were arrested,' Upstate Drone Action founding member Ed Kinane said. 'We're trying to make a statement about the war crimes being committed at the
air base with drones that kill human beings.' ...</span><br>
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<span style="font-size:13.5pt">"Those charged were: Ann Tiffany, of Syracuse; Dan Burgevin, of Trumansburg; Kinane, of Syracuse; Harry Murray, of Rochester; Julienne Oldfield, of Syracuse; Mark Scibilia-Carver, of Trumansburg; and Rae Kramer, of Syracuse.</span><br>
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<span style="font-size:13.5pt">"The protesters said they placed a 'huge dollar sign dripping with blood in the main entrance way to the base.</span><br>
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<span style="font-size:13.5pt">"'The six-foot high dollar signs dramatize what the group believes determines the many overseas wars the Pentagon/CIA engages in: Corporate greed,' Upstate Drone Action said in a news release announcing the arrests. </span><br>
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<span style="font-size:13.5pt">"In 2010, the Hancock base became the site of the 174th Attack Wing of the National Guard's MQ-9 Reaper drone operations and the first to have an MQ-9 remotely piloted aircraft squadron. The drones have missions in Afghanistan
and elsewhere."</span><br>
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<span style="font-size:13.5pt">ED KINANE, <a href="mailto:edkinane340@gmail.com" target="_blank">
edkinane340 at gmail.com</a></span><br>
<span style="font-size:13.5pt">JUDY BELLO, <a href="mailto:judith@papillonweb.net" target="_blank">
judith at papillonweb.net</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/elladabella13" target="_blank">
@elladabella13</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:13.5pt"> See the <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2017/09/26/rich-mans-war-poor-peoples-blood" target="_blank">
news release</a> from <a href="http://upstatedroneaction.org/" target="_blank">Upstate Drone Action</a>. Julienne Oldfield said: “The Hancock Reaper terrorizes whole communities, generating desperate refugees.” Mark Scibilia-Carver adds that “U.S. taxpayers
fund this terrorism keeping the pot boiling and creating enormous ill will toward the United States -- instead of funding health, education and infrastructure here." Video of protest is on
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHBnj8HbmMU&feature=youtu.be" target="_blank">
YouTube</a>. </span> <o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:13.5pt">See by Norman Solomon from earlier this year: "<a href="https://exposefacts.org/killer-drones-in-the-empire-state" target="_blank">Killer Drones in the Empire State</a>."</span><br>
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<span style="font-size:13.5pt">See pieces on Truthout by Kinane, including "<a href="http://www.truth-out.org/author/itemlist/user/45267" target="_blank">Weaponized Drones And The Phony 'War On Terror.'</a>"</span><br>
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<span style="font-size:13.5pt">For more information, contact at the Institute for Public Accuracy:</span><br>
<span style="font-size:13.5pt">Sam Husseini, <a href="tel:%28202%29%20421-6858" target="_blank">
(202) 421-6858</a>, David Zupan, <a href="tel:%28541%29%20484-9167" target="_blank">
(541) 484-9167</a></span><br>
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<span class="aqj"><span style="font-size:13.5pt">September 26, 2017</span></span><br>
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<span style="font-size:13.5pt">Institute for Public Accuracy</span><br>
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<span style="font-size:13.5pt"><a href="tel:%28202%29%20347-0020" target="_blank">(202) 347-0020</a> *
<a href="http://accuracy.org" target="_blank">accuracy.org</a> * <a href="mailto:ipa@accuracy.org" target="_blank">
ipa@accuracy.org</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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