DM Armed Drone Command Center Campaign 2017 Summary Report by Frank Cordaro, March 2018 Via Pacis, p.1
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First Annual DM Holy Innocents / F&R Retreat
Dec 29, 2017 – Four Des Moines Drone Command protesters out of jail; 1 plea guilty and 3 going to trial .. 1st Court Date Feb 1 … stay tune for more to come ..
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/national-cw-e-mail-list/Tcv5KpSj-Bo
Dec 28, 2017 – News Release: 4 arrested at the DM Drone Command after Feast of Holy Innocents Retreat at DMCW, spending night in jail before Jail Judge tomorrow a/m.
Dec 22, 2017 – News Release: Dec 28 – DMCW & VFP return to IA Drone Command Center @ 1:30 p.m. Witness & Direct Action …some risking arrest …
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/national-cw-e-mail-list/_G0Hg_RJ2LI
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/national-cw-e-mail-list/_G0Hg_RJ2LI
Nov 14, 2017 – Dec 27/28 1st Annual DM Holy Innocents / F&R Retreat with NYCW Brian Hynes and DMCWJulie Brown, Liturgy with Fr Carl Kabat ..
Nov 3, 2017 – Join us! Dec 27/28 Feast of Holy Innocents/F&R Retreat & Witness at DM’s Armed Drone Command Center . . .message from DMCW
+++ Sept 1, 2017 “Kathy Kelly Speaks at Des Moines Drone Warfare Vigil” by Michael Gillespie, Wash. Report https://www.washingtonreport.me/in-the-news/kathy-kelly-speaks-at-des-moines-drone-warfare-vigil.html
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Aug 12, 2017 Photos & Report weekly Saturday ‘Rally, Witness, Direct Action, Risk Arrest & Go To Jail ” at the DM Armed Drone Command Campaign https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/15ddc3bc4ba73737
Aug 10, 2017
Video “Tear Down Those Walls” Kathy KellyAug 5, 2017 St Ambrose Cathedral, DM IA at the beginning of “Bp Pates please Teach, Test & Grade the DM Drone Command Center” Aug 5-9 Vigil, & Frank Cordaro intro .. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/national-cw-e-mail-list/G-j0qtc9gug
Photos and Report Aug 5-9 “Bp Pates please Teach, Test & Grade the DM Drone Command Center” Vigil @ St Ambrose plus… Kathy Kelly kick off event Aug 5 https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/national-cw-e-mail-list/8V6ZDG3OCY0
Aug 3, 2017 Aug 6 Feast of Transfiguration 40 years ago and today, Bishop Dingman to Bishop Pates, Nuclear Weapons and Armed Drone Warfare …. what a difference…
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/national-cw-e-mail-list/0BotufaMctg
Aug 2, 2017 Kathy Kelly “Stopping Permanent War” Talk Nation Radio Interview , don’t miss Kathy Kelly, Sat. Aug 5 @ 8:30 p.m. St Amborse Cathedral, DM IA
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/national-cw-e-mail-list/jw9SfIVXENs
Aug 1, 2017 – “Former Des Moines Priest to Now Protest Catholic Church”. by DAVE PRICE, WHO T.V. JULY 31, 2017
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/national-cw-e-mail-list/RDnMbmFWvew
July 31, 2017 – “US Drone victims’, friends and families I’ve known ” Kathy Kelly, Sat. Aug 5 @ 8:30 p.m. St Amborse Cathedral, DM IA
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/national-cw-e-mail-list/KDMB_2rdLyo
July 26, 2017 – Please Come to DM Aug 5-9 and help us ‘beg’ Bp Pates to Teach, Test & Grade the DM Drone Command Center & join our protest . https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/national-cw-e-mail-list/uXoaAM6ZT6U
July 23 – DM Drone Protesters Montoya and Reznicek “deny liability for $3,200 restitution” Road Block Witness court order https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/national-cw-e-mail-list/Kl5ohpD2udk
- July 23 – Sat. July 22 DM Drone Command Rally report and photo ….REMINDER!!! JOIN US! Aug 5-9 “BISHOP PATES! PLEASE TEACH, TEST AND GRADE THE DM DRONE COMMAND vigil https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/15d6f93c6d811449
- July 22 – “Anti-Drone Campaign in Iowa Continues” by Michael Gillespie, Wash Report on Middle East Affairs, July/August 2017, Pages 49-50
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/national-cw-e-mail-list/dFGQW2oO9EA - July 22 – “Des Moines drone protesters ordered to pay $3,200 for police, firefighter costs” bt Charly Haley, DM Reg July 21, 2017
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/national-cw-e-mail-list/TpVWB9FY4bc - July 17 – DM Drone Command campaign highlighted in Ray McGovern’s “Moral Corrosion of Drone Warfare”, Consortium News.com. July 16, 2017
- https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/national-cw-e-mail-list/ZETqL7qyyrk
- July 15 – Come join us Aug 5-9 “Bp Pates please Teach, Test & Grade the DM Drone Command Center” 24/7 Vigil @ St Ambrose Cathedral plus… Kathy Kelly kick off event Aug 5
- https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/national-cw-e-mail-list/S1FThaFIOoQ
- July 15 – Sat. July 15 – Photos and Report Witness at the IA Drone Command Center in DM ..
- https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/national-cw-e-mail-list/8_UWp7EDW_o
- July 13 – Frank Cordaro’s 4th Arrest & Jail Court Report plus “US Airstrikes on ISIS Have Killed 4,000 Civilians in the Last Year”!!!!
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/national-cw-e-mail-list/GdRCw2_5bx0 - July 10 – Frank Cordaro arrested on warrant from last Wednesday’s blockade of National Air Guard
- https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/national-cw-e-mail-list/acGTyV2dSJg
- July 7 – FLASH REAL NEWS: Bishop Pates and US Catholic Bishop’s 2014 position on U.S. lead Drone War Fare! They are against it!!!! & 4 DM Reg Letters regarding Drone protest
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/national-cw-e-mail-list/AUAuH26HK4U - July 2 – DMCW & VFP Ed Bloomer and VFP Jesse Horn plead guilty, fined and freed today…. DM Drone Campaign continues ..
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/national-cw-e-mail-list/0wsBzduzpo0 - July 1 – DMCW & VFP Ed Bloomer and DM VFP Jesse Horne arrested & jailed at IA National Guard Drone Command Center
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/national-cw-e-mail-list/d_ddJV86Nw8 - June 29 – 4 Jailed D.M. Drone Command Center protesters, plead guilty, fined and let go!!!! DMCW / VFP Ed Bloomer risking arrest Sat. @ 4 p.m.
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/national-cw-e-mail-list/jj33vIsksSU
- News Media from Wen. June 28 Rd Block witness:
June 29 – “4 protesters arrested at Iowa Air National Guard base” KWWL 7 TV,
http://www.kwwl.com/story/35777733/4-protesters-arrested-at-iowa-air-national-guard-base
June 29 – “4 Protesters Arrested at Iowa Air National Guard Base” US News
https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/iowa/articles/2017-06-29/4-protesters-arrested-at-iowa-air-national-guard-base
June 29 – 4 protesters arrested at Iowa Air National Guard base, Channel 9 ABC news
http://www.kcrg.com/content/news/4-protesters-arrested-at-Iowa-Air-National-Guard-base-431529923.html
June 29 – ‘DES MOINES DRONE PROTEST BLOCKS TRAFFIC’ / DRONE ORGANIZERS BULLETIN – SPECIAL
https://www.knowdrones.com/updates/2017/6/28/des-moines-drone-protest-blocks-traffic
June 29 – “Four peace activists arrested after lock down in entry road to Iowa drone base” F. Cordaro, Nuke Resister, June 29, 2017
http://www.nukeresister.org/2017/06/29/four-peace-activists-arrested-after-lock-down-in-entry-road-to-iowa-drone-base/
June 28 – “4 arrested protesting drones at Iowa Air National Guard” DM Reg
http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/2017/06/28/protesters-block-air-guard-base-des-moines/435010001/
June 28 – “Drone protesters chained to concrete slabs block National Guard base” KCCI 8 TV News,
http://www.kcci.com/article/drone-protesters-chained-to-concrete-slabs-block-national-guard-base/10233665
June 28 – “Four Anti-Drone Protesters Arrested Near Des Moines Airport” by SARAH BODEN IA Public Radio
http://iowapublicradio.org/post/four-anti-drone-protesters-arrested-near-des-moines-airport#stream/0
June 28 – “Protesters target Iowa Air Guard’s drone program” Radio IA,
http://www.radioiowa.com/2017/06/28/protesters-target-iowa-air-guards-drone-program/ - June 28 – 4 Arrested & Jailed tonight for “Blocking” McKinley Ave. in front of the IA National Guard Drone Command Center D.M
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/national-cw-e-mail-list/SW-rxMJRynA - June 25 – FOR THE RECORD: The Mission of the IA National Guard Drone Command Center in DM is to “find, kill & assess killings” of targeted people, anywhere on the globe .
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/national-cw-e-mail-list/9Q-Rem9FEqE - June 24 – 6th Sat. DM Drone Command Center Witness report, plus this weeks Vigil-Picket line times …FLASH ! Jess & Ruby are back!!!!!! ….
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/national-cw-e-mail-list/JxYY159ahAo - June 23 – (72 hrs latter) Cordaro out of jail, 3rd time, DMCW & VFP vigil, ‘picket line’, Saturday Witness & Direct Action & Go To Jail Campaign at the IA National Guard Drone Command Center continues …
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/national-cw-e-mail-list/n8tnG69g5yw - June 21 – DM Catholic Worker / Veterans for Peace drone protesters sentenced on June 20
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/national-cw-e-mail-list/-2WhYM0HPeg - June 18 – (72 hrs latter…) Cordaro out of jail … returns to Polk Co Court with Al Burney and Mark Kenney Tues. June 20 @ 9 a.m. for trespass at the IA National Guard Drone Center
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/national-cw-e-mail-list/$20(72$20hrs$20latter…)$20Cordaro$20out$20of$20jail$20…$20%7Csort:relevance/national-cw-e-mail-list/-2WhYM0HPeg/zXRcu71KAQAJ - June 16 – NEWS RELEASE: DMCW Frank Cordaro in Court, Thurs. June 15 @ 1:30 p.m. … arrested 3 times at IA Drone Command Center .
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/national-cw-e-mail-list/hD4lvdGJ4Bw - June 13 – NEWS RELEASE: DMCW Frank Cordaro in Court, Thurs. June 15 @ 1:30 p.m. … arrested 3 times at IA Drone Command Center ..
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/national-cw-e-mail-list/$20$20$20Long$20time$20peace$20activist$2C$20Catholic$20Worker$20and$20former$20priest$20Frank$20Cordaro$20returns$20to$20Polk$20County$20Court$20%7Csort:relevance/national-cw-e-mail-list/hD4lvdGJ4Bw/Eyubyx3TAgAJ - June 11 – Sat, June 10 – Report & Photos: Burney, Kenney and Cordaro arrested, cited and released at IA Guard Drone Command Center i- court date set June 20th
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/national-cw-e-mail-list/kuyHTLrR1_M - June 9 – Al Burney, DMCW & VFP plead guilty to trespass at DM Drone Command … sentenced to $.0 fine, plus court cost (see attached)… promises to return Sat. June 10 @ 4 p.m. and risk arrest again …
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/national-cw-e-mail-list/hCguo6ykLU8 - June 7 – News Release: Al Burney, Des Moines CW and Vet for Peace member in Polk Co Court, Thurs. June 8th for his Sat. May 27th trespass at IA Air Guard Drone Command Cen
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/national-cw-e-mail-list/Nb3XSyIRlzc - June 3 – DMCW Frank Cordaro arrested 2nd time, cited and released at IA Guard Drone Command Center in DM / June 15 Court
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/national-cw-e-mail-list/uDaP0czZxMQ
https://www.flickr.com/photos/frank_cordaro_and_the_dm_catholic_worker/albums/72157681622916984 - June 1 – “To jail and back again” Cordaro, does 48 hrs for DM Drone protest, promise to return Sat June 3 @ 4 p.m.
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/national-cw-e-mail-list/epczL3dXBu8 - May 29 – News Release: DMCW Frank Cordaro to plead guilty in Polk Co Court, Tues, May 30th for drone protest at IA Guard Drone Command
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/national-cw-e-mail-list/P4A3RG7QTsw - May 28 – Al Burney -DMCW & VFP arrested at “Say NO to IA Reaper Drones”, Sat May 27 Drone Command Center, weekly demo, lead by IA City and DM Vets for Peace
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/national-cw-e-mail-list/CbTZAx_MXPg - May 25 – “Say NO to Iowa Reaper Drones”/ Sat May 27 – 4 p.m. Drone Command Cen. DM, lead by IA City and DM Vets for Peace
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/national-cw-e-mail-list/pocLySvcEpw - May 22 – (18 min) Video of May 20th Witness, FC’s speech and arrest at DM Drone Command. NEXT WITNESS – Sat, May 27, 4 p.m. IA VFP lead
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/national-cw-e-mail-list/UxbdUnhrVlI - May 21 – DMCW Frank Cordaro arrested, cited and released at IA Guard Drone Command Center in DM at Arms Forces Day Witness
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/national-cw-e-mail-list/V3G9SiUlQhg - May19 – News Release: “Stop the Killing” Arms Forces Day Witness at DM Drone Command Center Sat. May 20, 4 pm ….
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/national-cw-e-mail-list/gkIrZv0l9vI - May18 – Day 7 – DM Drone Command picket line visited by “Babe Ruth and Shoe-less Joe” with “Field of Drones does not equal Field of Dreams” message … Sat witness still on
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/national-cw-e-mail-list/OL4i1yhAUgc - May 17 – Day 6 – Drone Vigil in DM ‘rained out’ back at it tomorrow / Sat May 20 ‘line crossing’ still on…
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/national-cw-e-mail-list/odgG-QHcQs0 - May 16 – Day 5 ‘A call to do weekly Sat ‘line crossings’ at IA Air Guard Drone Command Cen ….. join us this Sat. 4 p.m. … vigil continues..
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/national-cw-e-mail-list/KaF82VXy3y4 - May 14 – Day 4 – Stop the Killing 24/7 picket line still going … CALL for direct action Sat May 20 Arm Forces Day ‘Stop the Killing” Witness, DM Drone Command
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/dmcw-community-list/cywcrJqX3yQ - May 12- Day 2 – DMCWers and VFP in 2nd day of 24/7 ‘Stop the Killing’/ picket line … establishing a 24 hr site …. our Ezekiel 33” alarm! has just begun … come join us
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/national-cw-e-mail-list/_FJc6Nv-ZDQ - May 10 – Call-out to CW and friends: Join our 24/7 “War Zone Picket Line,” risk arrest, & “stay in jail” campaign at the IA Guard Drone Command in DM starting May 11.
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/national-cw-e-mail-list/AmJfptZCYvU - May 1- News Release: 24hr/7day “Stop the Killing” picket line DM base Drone Center starting May 11 …. message from DMCW & DM VFP
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/national-cw-e-mail-list/O25iFb-TtBY - —
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