<div dir="ltr">Thank you David, signed up.<div><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><font size="2">Greg</font></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Jul 1, 2021 at 11:58 AM David Walsh via craic <<a href="mailto:craic@lists.integralshift.ca">craic@lists.integralshift.ca</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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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.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> <a href="mailto:nonewfighterjets@googlegroups.com" target="_blank">nonewfighterjets@googlegroups.com</a> <<a href="mailto:nonewfighterjets@googlegroups.com" target="_blank">nonewfighterjets@googlegroups.com</a>>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Pitasanna Shanmugathas<br>
<b>Sent:</b> June 30, 2021 9:21 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:nonewfighterjets@googlegroups.com" target="_blank">nonewfighterjets@googlegroups.com</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> <b>Register for Webinar: Resisting Fighter Jets at Home and Abroad: With Activists from Canada, Israel, Wisconsin & Vermont</b><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color:white"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">As part of the No New Fighter Jet Coalition, </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(35,35,51);background-color:white">Canadian
Voice of Women for Peace, Science for Peace, and World Beyond War Canada have organized a webinar w</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(15,20,25);background-color:white">ith peace activists from Canada, Israel, Wisconsin and
Vermont about how they are resisting the procurement, use and basing of fighter jets. </span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color:white"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Please retweet and share widely within your social media networks about our upcoming webinar.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black"> <a href="https://twitter.com/VOWPeace/status/1410404176295862272" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/VOWPeace/status/1410404176295862272</a> <u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color:white"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(35,35,51);background-color:white">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</span><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(35,35,51)"> Pitasanna Shanmugathas</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(35,35,51);background-color:white"> &</span><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(35,35,51)"> Rachel
Small </span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(35,35,51);background-color:white">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. </span><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(35,35,51)">Yonatan
Shapira</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(35,35,51);background-color:white">, 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 </span><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(35,35,51)">Colonel Rosanne Greco</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(35,35,51);background-color:white">,
a retired US Air Force pilot, and </span><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(35,35,51)">John Reuwer</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(35,35,51);background-color:white">, a member
of World BEYOND War’s Board of Directors, will share their struggle to stop the placement of F-35s in Burlington. </span><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(35,35,51)">Vicki Berenson</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(35,35,51);background-color:white">,
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.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black"><br>
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</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(35,35,51);background-color:white">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: <a href="http://www.nofighterjets.ca" target="_blank">www.nofighterjets.ca</a></span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.85pt;background-color:white"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">ABOUT THE SPEAKERS: </span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.85pt;background-color:white"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><a href="https://jews4decolonization.wordpress.com/?fbclid=IwAR1f5qeBnCW732_epraJmItNsEvDrCcUwSRqim72F9yMsOL5UVTphQ_OAUo" target="_blank">Yonatan
Shapira</a>, </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(32,31,30);background-color:white">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.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> <u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.85pt;background-color:white"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><a href="https://vtdigger.org/2018/03/02/former-air-force-colonel-commands-f-35-opposition/" target="_blank">Rosanne Greco</a> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(32,31,30);background-color:white">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.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> <u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.85pt;background-color:white"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><a href="https://saveourskiesvt.org/?fbclid=IwAR1JDVm6_k4gsZC_3DqlYJGoBeCwXq6EKCN3-4AuaTgT1zy7JIGD3Lk3hg4" target="_blank"><span style="border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">John
Reuwer</span></a><span style="border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm"> 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. </span> <u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.85pt;background-color:white"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><a href="https://www.safeskiescleanwaterwi.org/war-economy-takes-from-domestic-needs-vicki-berenson/" target="_blank">Vicki Berenson</a> 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. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.85pt;background-color:white"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><a href="https://worldbeyondwar.org/world-beyond-war-podcast-fasting-for-peace-in-canada/" target="_blank">Rachel Small</a> <span style="background-color:white">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.</span> <u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p style="background-color:white"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><a href="https://actionnetwork.org/letters/no-new-fighter-jets-invest-in-a-just-recovery-and-a-green-new-deal?clear_id=true" target="_blank">Pitasanna Shanmugathas</a></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(65,65,65)"> 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. </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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