April Days of Action Against Drones in MARYLAND

Advanced Physics Laboratory, home of drones research at JHU.

Maryland has been an important site of protest activity against drones, particularly protests against drones research at Johns Hopkins University.

Numerous Maryland events are planned as part of the nationwide April Days of Action Against Drones.

UPCOMING MARYLAND EVENTS

TOWSON - Friday, April 5, through Sunday, April 7, 2013 - The Politics of Drone Warfare and the University - Topics in this important 3-day conference will include:

• "Distancing Acts: Imperial War from Counterinsurgency to Drones"
• "The Politics of Drone Warfare and the University"
• "Teaching the War on Terror"

Speakers will include:

• Rashid Khalidi - Columbia University
• Nick Turse - TomDispatch.com
• Phyllis Bennis - Institute for Policy Studies
• Ray McGovern - Ex-CIA White House briefer
• Irene Gendizer - Boston University
• Judith Le Blanc - Peace Action
• David Swanson - War is a Crime.org
• Jerry Lembcke - College of the Holy Cross
• Vinay Lal - UCLA
• Paul Joseph - Tufts University
• Carolyn Eisenberg - Hofstra University
• John Prados - National Security Archive

Friday Keynote Session: Friday evening, April 5, St. John's Methodist Church, 2640 St. Paul Street, Baltimore, MD. Keynote speakers: Col. Ann Wright, former Army officer and State Department diplomat; Alfred McCoy, University of Wisconsin.

All Saturday, April 6 and Sunday April 7 sessions will be held at the College of Liberal Arts Building, Towson University, 8000 York Road, Towson, MD 21252

For additional details see: Historians Against the War

BALTIMORE - Friday, April 12, through Sunday, April 14, 2013 - Exhibit: Drone Warfare Exhibit and Luminous Light Intervention . . . Tuesday, April 16, 2013 - Exhibit: Workshop on the Legal, Political, and Ethical Implications of Militarized Drones . . . Tuesday, April 16, 2013 - Exhibit: "DRONECOMING" - Mobile drone warfare exhibition at Johns Hopkins University homecoming events.

(Add additional Illinois events to the master list of national April Days of Action actions.)

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JHU News-Letter: "The APL drones on and on"

On May 7, 2012, the Johns Hopkins News-Letter ("Published by the students of Johns Hopkins University since 1896") ran an editorial entitled, "The APL drones on and on."

"This page must stress that it does not object to the progress APL has made in helping to help keep our nation secure and our troops safe. We do, however, object to APL’s involvement with General Atomics, contributing to the production of these aerial combat drones used by the CIA in covert operations abroad," it said.

The News-Letter particularly called into question the legality of U.S. drone operations, and called the secrecy surrounding drone research, saying " this goes against the open nature of universities, including affiliated organizations like the APL.

The editorial was spurred by a discussion forum sponsored by the Human Rights Working Group and the Graduate Student Organization, focusing on the University’s role in drone research and production.

Read the full text of "The APL drones on and on."