Wir bitten die Kirchenleitungen in Deutschland, den Bundestag, den Bundesrat, die Bundesregierung und den Herrn Bundespräsidenten herzlichst darum,
1.) sich für Nichtentwicklung, Nichtproduktion und Nichtexport von Drohnentechnologie zu engagieren, soweit diese absehbar für Krieg oder für die Überwachung und Unterdrückung von Menschen eingesetzt wird
2.) sich für ein internationales Abkommen zur Ächtung von bewaffneten Drohnen und autonomen Kampfsystemen einzusetzen
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More people will join this Gandhian wave.
People clearly understand that we must protect the peace, the innocents, social progress here at home and defend our basic right to protest injustice and wars. We have no other choice.
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http://space4peace.blogspot.de/2013/04/protecting-drone-crimes.html
Signatories include:
Chris Cole (Drone Campaign Network); Jeremy Corbyn (MP for Islington North); Lindsey German (Convenor, Stop the War Coalition); Dennis Halliday (former UN Assistant Secretary-General); Kate Hudson (CND); Dr Rowan Williams (former Archbishop of Canterbury); Rafeef Ziahdah (War On Want).
Veteran peace protestor Helen John this afternoon told an estimated 600 anti-drone protestors she would like to organise a mass walk-in at RAF Waddington.
Ms John, a founder of the Greenham Common protests, spoke at the rally outside the base attended by campaigners who had marched from Lincoln.
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Millions of irreproachable Muslims are bewildered and enraged by this global vendetta which seems determined to annihilate modernism, occidental values, and also to destabilise some of the poorest and most hapless of nation states for reasons not made clear at all.
The setting for the first drone command centre on UK soil may be incongruous – RAF Waddington, with the medieval towers of Lincoln cathedral visible in the distance – but the disjunction is not a new one.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/apr/28/drones-doorstep-raf-waddington-attitudes
Three women and one man from the Berlin Peace Coordination intervened yesterday during the parliamentary debate in Berlin regarding possible German acquisition of weaponized drones. The anti-drone activists, who are co-founders of the campaign “No Combat Drones!,” sought to call attention the gravity of the upcoming decision by the German government, either for or against weaponized drones, in light of the growing international struggle to ban such weapons.
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http://warisacrime.org/content/anti-drone-protest-german-parliament
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