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.
Right. The only marching these idiots will be doing will be back and forth to the nearest food supply.
Serve them right if they got eaten by the alligator.
Stupid Biches think because they are sucking up to
the pakis they will be safe.
Guess they forgot about that anti-Mohammed movie
they were making...or about those burned Koran
pages in their luggage.
Those cute pink T-shirts should make good drone targets.
I wonder if these ‘women’ realize that Obama has authorized drone flyovers here in the USA over THEIR homes???
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