Thank you Josie. Brave souls . . . acquitted and then carried away.

I've been meaning to send you Larry James's statement on the Hoffman report he sent this week, since we're the "evil people from Ohio" that he refers to. Many faith groups, VFP and others wrote to the Ohio Board regarding his actions, which he also mentions in his rant. This has gone all over the American Psychological Association division listservs.

Just happens that the APA's annual convention is next week in Toronto. Deborah and I are scheduled to present, and Ben Davis is also going.

On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 9:25 AM, Josie Setzler <josiesetzler@PROTECTED> wrote:

These 4 are friends of  mine from Witness Against Torture. 

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Ed Kinane <edkinane@PROTECTED>
Date: Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 10:16 PM
Subject: hancock anti-drone resisters jailed tonite
To: upstatedroneaction@PROTECTED, drones no <nodrones@PROTECTED>, PEACE-LIST@PROTECTED
Cc: jonathan wallace <jonathan.wallace80@PROTECTED>, Lewis Oliver <eamon.millar@PROTECTED>, Judy bello <judith@PROTECTED>

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                      contact: Ellen Barfield 410) 908-7323

29 July 2015                                                                 Jules Orkin, 201) 566-8403

                                                                                        Ed Kinane, 315) 478-4571

                                                                                         www.upstatedroneaction.org

 

          HANCOCK ANTI-DRONE RESISTERS JAILED TONIGHT

 

Four anti-drone resisters were sentenced tonight in Judge Joseph J. Zavaglia’s DeWitt (NY) Town Court for alleged trespass at a “die-in” on April 28, 2013 at Hancock Air Base, home to the 174^th Attack Wing of the NY National Guard, just north of Syracuse, NY. At their four-day trial this past June trial the six-person jury acquitted the four of disorderly conduct and obstruction of government administration.

   

The four are members of Upstate Drone Action Coalition – a scrupulously nonviolent, loosely-knit grassroots network which, since 2009 has actively opposed the Hancock Reaper drones flying missions over Afghanistan. The Reaper, an unmanned robot, is notorious for violating international law by killing, maiming and terrorizing civilians in several U.S. undeclared wars.

 

There have been over 160 anti-drone arrests at Hancock resulting in bails as high as $10,000, numerous trials, many incarcerations, and Orders of Protection (a legal device usually meant to protect spouses and other vulnerable persons against violence).

 

The four defendants are: Joan Pleune of Brooklyn, Beverly Rice of Manhattan, Ellen Barfield of Baltimore, and Jules Orkin of Bergenfield, New Jersey. Pleune is a former Freedom Rider; Barfield, Rice and Orkin are active with Veterans for Peace.

 

All four were identically sentenced to one year’s conditional discharge, $250 fine, $125 court costs and a two-year order of protection. Both Pleune and Rice told Judge Zavaglia, through their attorney Lewis Oliver, that they would not agree to the conditional discharge – which led him to sentence the two to 15 days in Jamesville Penitentiary. Pleune and Rice were taken from court in handcuffs.###

[[drone sentencing july 2015]]

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