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US DRONE WAR – Protestors on Trial
Guest: Kathy Kelly - Noble Peace Prize Nominee: http://vcnv.org/
Even with desparate situation in Pakistan, due to the flooding, there has been no let up by the Obama administration on the drone attacks in that country. 66 drone strikes have occurred in Pakistan this year, and in this September alone there have been at least 12.
Kathy Kelly- Coordinator of Voices for Creative Non-Voilence as well as thirteen other antiwar activists held a ten-day vigil last April outside of the Creech air force base in Indian Springs Nevada, and then entered the base to give letters of protest to the commanders there. Inside the base they were arrested and taken into custody charged with criminal trespassing. Their trial took place the day before this program aired. We discuss the result of that trial and the US drone program, as a whole.
About Kathy Kelly:
Kathy Kelly is Coordinator for Voices for Creative Nonviolence, a campaign to end U.S. military and economic warfare.
In 2009, she lived in Gaza during the Operation Cast Lead bombing; later that year, Voices formed another small delegation to visit Pakistan, aiming to learn more about the effects of U.S. drone warfare on the civilian population and to better understand consequences of U.S. foreign policy in Pakistan. Kathy’s most recent trip to the region, in 2010, included a visit to Afghanistan, focusing on surgical centers serving victims of war.
New Study Finds Wild Tigers on the Brink of Extinction - How the Global Conservation Act Can Help
John Calvelli – Wildlife Conservation Society: www.wcs.org
Wild tigers are on the brink of extinction. Victims of brutal poaching and habitat loss.
John Calvelli of the Wildlife Conservation Society discusses a new peer-reviewed paper by the group that reveals that most of the world's last remaining 3,500 wild tigers -- are now clustered in just six percent of their available habitat. The survival of the tigers in these specific areas has now become the last hope and greatest priority for conservation and recovery of the species.
This fall, world leaders will gather in St. Petersburg, Russia, for the Global Tiger Initiative Summit, to negotiate a plan to save tigers from extinction. Tigers greatest advocate, if passed, will be the US Global Conservation Act of 2010, which would require the six federal agencies that conduct conservation programs around the world to pursue a unified strategy to stop illegal wildlife poaching and to reverse environmental destruction endangering tiger populations.
About John Calvelli:
As the Wildlife Conservation Society’s Executive Vice President of Public Affairs John oversees government and community affairs, communications, and marketing. He serves as a member of the Executive Committee of the International Conservation Partnership (ICP). The ICP helps conservation organizations to coordinate policy initiatives with a focus on educating the U.S. Congress and appropriate governmental agencies on global conservation needs.