US peace group heading to Pakistan to protest drone strikes (Code Pink) (2024)

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Posted on 09/29/2012 5:05:57 AM PDT by csvset

NEW YORK: A 40-member American peace delegation is leaving for Pakistan next week to protest drone strikes and promote peaceful relations between US and Pakistan, it was announced on Friday.

The delegation, organised by the activist group CODEPINK, a group of women peace activists, will meet with the families of drone victims, lawyers, academics, Pakistani politicians and US officials.

On October 7, they will march to South Waziristan in Pakistan’s Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) to protest US drone strikes that have killed more than 2,500 people, including civilians, CODEPINK said.

“President Obama’s counter-terrorism chief John Brennan insists that US drones strikes aren’t harming innocent Pakistanis, but we know that’s not true, especially since the Obama administration calls all military-age males in the area ‘militants,” said CODEPINK co-founder Medea Benjamin, who wrote the book Drone Warfare: Killing by Remote Control.

The protest comes in the wake of a scathing report by New York University and Stanford lawyers that details how drone warfare affects citizens and humanitarian workers in Pakistan.

CODEPINK is a women-initiated grassroots peace and social justice movement working to end US funded wars and occupations, to challenge militarism globally, and to redirect resources into health care, education, green jobs and other life-affirming activities.

Bitches in need of a drone strike.

1posted on 09/29/2012 5:06:03 AM PDTby csvset

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2posted on 09/29/2012 5:12:10 AM PDTby 2ndDivisionVet(You cannot invade the mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)

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3posted on 09/29/2012 5:13:09 AM PDTby ronnie raygun(bb)

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7posted on 09/29/2012 5:14:50 AM PDTby kevslisababy

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8posted on 09/29/2012 5:19:48 AM PDTby Dr. Ursus

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9posted on 09/29/2012 5:22:47 AM PDTby SauronOfMordor(this space for rent)

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10posted on 09/29/2012 5:26:53 AM PDTby MestaMachine(obama kills and bo stinks)

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Travel in 3rd world countries can be dangerous, perhaps a bus plunge is in their future.

11posted on 09/29/2012 5:27:08 AM PDTby csvset

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12posted on 09/29/2012 5:28:24 AM PDTby Diogenesis(Vi veri veniversum vivus vici)

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13posted on 09/29/2012 5:31:19 AM PDTby Venturer

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15posted on 09/29/2012 5:40:04 AM PDTby MinuteGal

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17posted on 09/29/2012 5:42:42 AM PDTby bert((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... Present failure and impending death yield irrational action))

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18posted on 09/29/2012 6:06:00 AM PDTby battousai(Conservatives are racist? YES, I hate stupid white liberals.)

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19posted on 09/29/2012 6:14:51 AM PDTby rfreedom4u(I have a copy of the Constitution! And I'm not afraid to use it!)

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20posted on 09/29/2012 7:10:03 AM PDTby Baseballguy(If we knew what we know now in Oct would we do anything different?)

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