[Craic] FW: Register for Webinar: Resisting Fighter Jets at Home and Abroad: With Activists from Canada, Israel, Wisconsin & Vermont

Thu Jul 1 15:54:25 PDT 2021

Thank you David, signed up.

Greg

On Thu, Jul 1, 2021 at 11:58 AM David Walsh via craic <
craic at lists.integralshift.ca> wrote:

> We will hear from*  Yonatan Shapira*, a former Israeli Air Force pilot
> turned peace activist, will speak about the destruction caused by Israel’s
> F-35 Joint Strike fighter jets in Gaza and the futility of fighter jets for
> defence.
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> *From:* nonewfighterjets at googlegroups.com <
> nonewfighterjets at googlegroups.com> *On Behalf Of *Pitasanna Shanmugathas
> *Sent:* June 30, 2021 9:21 PM
> *To:* nonewfighterjets at googlegroups.com
> *Subject:* *Register for Webinar: Resisting Fighter Jets at Home and
> Abroad: With Activists from Canada, Israel, Wisconsin & Vermont*
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> Hello everyone,
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> As part of the No New Fighter Jet Coalition,  Canadian Voice of Women for
> Peace, Science for Peace, and World Beyond War Canada have organized a
> webinar with peace activists from Canada, Israel, Wisconsin and Vermont
> about how they are resisting the procurement, use and basing of fighter
> jets.
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> The webinar will take place on* July 7th from 12:00pm to 1:30pm Eastern
> Standard Time. *
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> *To REGISTER  to attend the webinar, please click this link:  *
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> *https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIvf-iorjsjE9YJBMKH6UhWhMY2aMhv37Ll
> <https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIvf-iorjsjE9YJBMKH6UhWhMY2aMhv37Ll>
> *After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing
> information about joining the meeting.
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> Please retweet and share widely within your social media networks about
> our upcoming webinar.
> https://twitter.com/VOWPeace/status/1410404176295862272
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> Join our important discussion with peace activists from Canada, Israel,
> Wisconsin and Vermont about how they are resisting the procurement, use and
> basing of fighter jets. We will hear from* Pitasanna Shanmugathas* &* Rachel
> Small *from the No New Fighter Jets Coalition who are trying to stop
> Canada from buying 88 new fighter jets at a life-cycle cost of $76.8
> billion. *Yonatan Shapira*, a former Israeli Air Force pilot turned peace
> activist, will speak about the destruction caused by Israel’s F-35 Joint
> Strike fighter jets in Gaza and the futility of fighter jets for defence.
> From Vermont, former *Colonel Rosanne Greco*, a retired US Air Force
> pilot, and *John Reuwer*, a member of World BEYOND War’s Board of
> Directors, will share their struggle to stop the placement of F-35s in
> Burlington. *Vicki Berenson*, an organizer with Safe Skies Clean Water
> Wisconsin, will talk about the campaign to stop the siting of F-35s at
> Truax Air National Guard base in Madison.
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> This event is being held to stop the Canadian government from buying a new
> fleet of costly-carbon intensive combat aircraft, find out more about the
> #NoNewFighterJets campaign here: www.nofighterjets.ca
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> *ABOUT THE SPEAKERS: *
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> Yonatan Shapira
> <https://jews4decolonization.wordpress.com/?fbclid=IwAR1f5qeBnCW732_epraJmItNsEvDrCcUwSRqim72F9yMsOL5UVTphQ_OAUo>
> , a musician and a singer, was a rescue helicopter pilot and captain in
> the Israeli Air Force. In 2003 he was the initiator of the pilots'
> letter signed by 27 pilots who refused to take part in the attack on
> Palestinians. He is a member of Boycott from within (Israelis supporting
> the BDS movement) and was a crew member on four flotillas attempting to
> break the Gaza blockade. A dialogue facilitator for groups in conflict
> Yonatan has MA degree in peace and conflict studies from EPU, Austria. He
> works as a helicopter pilot for utility companies in the US and
> Scandinavia, has one daughter and lives in Oslo.
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> Rosanne Greco
> <https://vtdigger.org/2018/03/02/former-air-force-colonel-commands-f-35-opposition/>
>  joined the United States Air Force, served on active duty for close to
> 30 years, and retired as a Colonel.  Colonel Greco was an Intelligence
> officer specializing in strategic nuclear weapons, arms control
> negotiations, and strategic planning for the Joint Chiefs of Staff. After
> retiring in 2003, she worked for a defense contractor on continuity of
> operations plans and cyber security issues.  Three years after moving to
> Vermont with her husband and dog, she was elected to the South Burlington,
> Vermont City Council, and then elected Chair of the Council.  After her
> term was over, she led a grassroots coalition opposing the basing of the
> F-35 fighter-bomber at the Vermont Air National Guard Station located at
> the Burlington, Vermont commercial airport. Currently, she is an outspoken
> activist for environmental preservation and climate crisis matters.
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> John Reuwer
> <https://saveourskiesvt.org/?fbclid=IwAR1JDVm6_k4gsZC_3DqlYJGoBeCwXq6EKCN3-4AuaTgT1zy7JIGD3Lk3hg4> has
> been involved with resistance to the basing of the F-35 jet in Burlington,
> Vermont since 2011, including roles in writing, speaking, and activism. Now
> a retired emergency physician, he has been studying, practicing, and
> teaching alternatives to violence for over 35 years, including 6 years
> as adjunct professor of conflict resolution at St. Michael’s College in
> Vermont where he taught courses in nonviolent communication and nonviolent
> action. He serves on the Board of Directors of World Beyond War and the
> Committee to Abolish Nuclear Weapons for Physicians for Social
> Responsibility. Currently he is chair of the Divest Vermont from the War
> Machine Coalition.
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> Vicki Berenson
> <https://www.safeskiescleanwaterwi.org/war-economy-takes-from-domestic-needs-vicki-berenson/> is
> one of several organizers for Safe Skies Clean Water Wisconsin, opposing
> the siting of F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Jets at Truax Air National Guard
> base in Madison, Wisconsin. She has contributed to anti-violence and social
> justice work for many years with a variety of organizations as a volunteer
> or staff, and currently serves on the board of Wisconsin Faith Voices for
> Justice. Vicki has worked with food and housing cooperatives and nonprofits
> – including Wisconsin Network for Peace and Justice - doing bookkeeping,
> outreach, training, and technology support. She identifies as a Quaker and
> enjoys making pottery, reading, gardening, bicycling and innumerable other
> activities she doesn’t have time for.
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> Rachel Small
> <https://worldbeyondwar.org/world-beyond-war-podcast-fasting-for-peace-in-canada/>
>  is a community organizer based in Toronto, Canada, on Dish with One
> Spoon and Treaty 13 Indigenous territory. She has organized within local
> and international social/environmental justice movements for over a decade,
> with a special focus on working in solidarity with communities harmed by
> Canadian extractive industry projects in Latin America. She has also worked
> on campaigns and mobilizations around climate justice, decolonization,
> anti-racism, disability justice, and food sovereignty. She currently
> organizes in Toronto with the Mining Injustice Solidarity Network and has a
> Masters in Environmental Studies from York University. She has a background
> in art-based activism and has facilitated projects in community
> mural-making, independent publishing and media, spoken word, guerilla
> theatre, and communal cooking with people of all ages across Canada. She
> lives downtown with her partner, kid, and friend, and can often be found at
> a protest or direct action, gardening, spray painting, and playing softball.
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> Pitasanna Shanmugathas
> <https://actionnetwork.org/letters/no-new-fighter-jets-invest-in-a-just-recovery-and-a-green-new-deal?clear_id=true> is
> a peace campaign intern for the Canadian Voice of Women for Peace, working
> on initiatives to pressure the Canadian government to terminate its plans
> to purchase costly new fighter jets and end its dangerously militaristic
> agenda. From September to December 2020, Pitasanna was also an intern for
> Science for Peace, working on initiatives to achieve a world without
> nuclear weapons. Pitasanna recently completed his graduate studies and
> received his master’s degree in global affairs at the University of
> Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy.
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