Friday, July 12th, 2013 Winooski VT Burlington Free Press journalist, Joel Banner Baird, reports from tonights Winooski City Council meeting that, “The Winooski City Council voted 5-0 Friday evening to ask the Air Force to remove the South Burlington airport from its first-round list to base a fleet of F-35 fighter jets. The council’s decision — finalized […]
Friday, June 12th, 2013 Burlington, VT Richard Kemp interviews Dr. Jean Silva on F-35 health concerns and health impacts to the local populations around the Burlington International Airport. Please click here to watch this video interview. Please call me (Chris Hurd) at 802.238.5256 so I can get your name, email address and phone number so […]
Tuesday, July 9th, 2013 South Burlington VT Burlington Free Press reporter, Sam Hemingway, reports, “Greco and other F-35 opponents are hosting a public meeting at 7 p.m. Tuesday at Chamberlin Elementary School in South Burlington to discuss the studies and hear from several area doctors on the impact of aircraft noise on young children. Chamberlin […]
Friday, July 5th, 2013 Burlington VT Film documentarian, Corey Hendrickson, released this short 3 minute 12 second excerpt which details the recent F-35 Sound Demonstration directed at Burlington Vermont Mayor Miro Weinberger and Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin respective offices in Vermont’s largest city and the state capitol. Click here to watch the video excerpt. Please […]
Thursday, July 4th, 2013 Burlington Vermont The People’s Media Project based in Vermont produced a 9 minute 24 second video for the Vermont Worker’s Center which has just been released for public viewing. Please click here to watch the entire video: The producers say, “For over 40 years, the US Air Force has based the […]
Monday, June 3rd, 2013 Burlington VT (sorry folks I missed this earlier but very well crafted article by journalist Dylan Kelley) Vermont Commons Dylan Kelley reports on the recent Citizens’ Hearing held to a capacity crowd at Burlington’s Unitarian Universalist Church (atop Church Street) on May 30th, 2013. Click here for the complete article. An […]
Thursday, June 27th, 2013 Burlington Vermont Fox 44 Journalist Kristen Tripodi reports, “Protestors with the group Stop the F-35 say they amplified the sound to 115 decibels; the sound level they say an F-35 would create flying one thousand feet overhead. “There’s no way this is compatible with residential use,” said Richard Joseph, with Stop […]
Thursday, June 27th, 2013 Washington DC In this report, Chris Hurd, organizer and member of the Stop The F-35 Coalition says,“Part of the role of government is to protect the people,” Hurd told Gov. Shumlin’s Secretary of Administration, Jeb Spaulding, “and therefore the government should prove the planes put nobody in harm’s way, including children.” […]
Wednesday June 26th, 2013 Washington DC Politico reports: INDUSTRY INTEL — VERMONTERS FIGHT F-35 NOISE WITH NOISE: Some residents from South Burlington, Vt., are banding together to fight the possibility of the F-35 Lighting II being based in their backyard. Despite support from Vermont Sens. Patrick Leahy and Bernie Sanders for the plan to replace an […]