Medea Benjamin Lecture and Book Signing
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 20, 2012
CONTACT:
Alli McCracken, CODEPINK coordinator, 860-575-5692
Local: Judy Bello, Rochester Against War, 585-733-4058
Interview requests welcome: Call Judy Bello to schedule an interview. ( Medea will be available locally after noon. )
CODEPINK co-founder Medea Benjamin
Will be discussing her new book: Drone Warfare, Killing by Remote Control and Campaign Building to limit the role of killer drones and robotic warfare
PLEASE JOIN MEDEA
Friday, July 6, 2012, at
St. Mary’s Church on St Mary’s Place at Woodbury Blvd., Downtown Rochester
- 5:30 PM, No Drones Picket around Washington Square Park
- 6:30 PM, Pot Luck Supper, Cold Salads and Finger Foods
- 7:30 PM, Lecture, followed by Book Signing
CITIES NATIONWIDE – Increasing alarm is widespread among activists and intellectuals nationwide about the use of killer drones in modern warfare. Medea Benjamin will address this in a presentation of her new book Drone Warfare: Killing by Remote Control, a comprehensive look at how drones are being used to assassinate people around the world, the legal and moral implications, and how to build a movement to rein in the drones. It also looks at how drones are coming to local police departments, and what that means for our privacy rights.
“In this remarkably cogent and carefully researched book, Medea Benjamin makes it clear that drones are not just another high-tech military trinket,” Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Nickel and Dimed, wrote about the book. “Drone Warfare sketches out the nightmare possibilities posed by this insane proliferation.”
Drone Warfare explores the growing menace of robotic warfare, with an extensive analysis of who is producing the drones, where they are being used, who “pilots” these unmanned planes, who are the victims and what are the legal and moral implications. In vivid, readable style, the book also looks at what activists, lawyers and scientists are doing to ground the drones, and ways to move forward.
“In reality”, writes Benjamin, “the assassinations we are carrying out via drones will come back to haunt us when others start doing the same thing—to us.”
For information, contact Judy Bello: judith@papillonweb.net, (585)733-4058
