Tuesday, June 25th, 2013 Burlington VT Journalist, Kevin Kelley, reports “Passers-by cringed and covered their ears as opponents of the F-35 staged a noisy demonstration in Burlington’s City Hall Park on Tuesday morning.” It wasn’t the chanting and drum-banging typically heard at protests that was causing those within earshot to wince in pain. It was […]
Tuesday, June 25th, 2013 Burlington VT Videographer Tim Johnson of the Burlington Free Press brings you today’s F-35 Sound Simulation at City Hall in Burlington Vermont. Trying to simulate the 115 dB sound level they say the F-35 creates at takeoff, protesters pump jet noise through an array of speakers on Main Street by City Hall Tuesday morning. […]
Tuesday, June 25th, 2013 The Air Force Times, A Gannett Company, reports on F-35 sound/noise demonstration simulation at City Hall in Burlington Vermont and outside the Governor’s office in the state’s capital in Montpelier, VT. Click here to read the article Please call me (Chris Hurd) at 802.238.5256 so I can get your name, email […]
Dear Friends & Allies, To those who were able to make it, thank you so much for being a part of the Citizens’ Hearing at the UU Church in Burlington on May 30th! It was wonderful to see so many people come out to learn about the F-35A and the proposed basing in […]
Monday, June 25th, 2013 Boston, MA On Tuesday some of the opponents played recordings of the planes taking off in both Burlington and Montpelier, amplified to about 115 decibels, said to be the maximum sound the planes would make on takeoff. Please read the complete article here. Please call me (Chris Hurd) at 802.238.5256 so […]
Tuesdau, June 25th, 2013 Montpelier, VT The Associated Press reports that ‘opponents of a plan that could bring F-35 fighter planes to Vermont are going to be demonstrating what they say is just how loud the planes are.” Please read the complete article here. Please call me (Chris Hurd) at 802.238.5256 so I can get […]
Monday, June 24th, 2013 Burlington, VT Journalist John Briggs reports, “Opponents of basing the F-35 warplane at Burlington International Airport will hold a demonstration of the sound of the planes Tuesday in front of the offices of Governor Peter Shumlin and Burlington Mayor Miro Weinberger.” The organizers of the protest apologized for the sound they […]
Saturday, June 22nd, 2013 New York, NY Authors Medea Benjamin and James Mark Leas ask “is the Vermont Air National Guard being used for corrupt purposes having nothing to do with its military mission? The answer is yes. Big time. And for big money. In the article, “Those who “Fudged” Should not be Allowed to […]
Friday, June 21st, 2013 Montpelier, VT Ashley Wolf, is a member of the Vermont Workers’ Center Coordinating Committee. She lives in Burlington. In this op-ed, Wolf opines The Vermont Workers’ Center urges our congressional delegation to stand up against the stationing of the F-35 warplane at Burlington Airport and against the wasteful and dangerous military policy of […]
Thursday, June 20th, 2013 Washington DC Journalist Sydney J Freedberg Jr. reports “Yesterday, at a subcommittee hearing attended by just half a dozen Senators, the Pentagon’s top weapons buyer made a blunt admission: The military’s most expensive program, the stealthy F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, has been hacked and the stolen data used by America’s adversaries. Under Secretary Frank Kendall didn’t […]