Saturday June 15th, 2013 Burlington VT Please watch this film excerpt from an upcoming documentary of Ben Cohen, entrepreneur, activist, and co-founder of Ben and Jerry’s Ice Cream explaining why the F-35 is bad for the country and bad for Vermont. Please call me (Chris Hurd) at 802.238.5256 so I can get your name, email address […]
Friday, June 14th, 2013 Burlington VT WPTZ-TV, our local NBC affiliate, is reporting that opponents request for scoring sheets comparing Burlington to 205 other basing sites around the country were denied under a Frredom of Information Act (FOIA) request. Opponents subsequently received the 205 scoring sheets but upon arrival all information was whited out. And […]
Thursday, June 13th, 2013 South Burlington, VT On his recent visit to Burlington VT, Warplane Designer , Pierre Sprey, speaks out against the F-35. Click here to see this short excerpt of what will be a full length film soon to be released called the F-35 Movie. Please call me (Chris Hurd) at 802.238.5256 so […]
Thursday, June 13th, 2013 Burlington VT Burlington Free Press journalist, John Briggs, reports on local clergy have written to Vermont political leaders urging them to hold a “civil dialogue” with residents about basing the new F-35 warplane at the Burlington Airport. The journalist further reports that opposition to the warplane has moved into federal court. […]
Tuesday, June 11th, 2013 Burlington VT News Outlets across Vermont are reporting that the United States Air Force now acknowledges that opponents to the basing of the F-35’s in Vermont out number supporters of the warplanes. BFP journalist John Briggs reports that the Air Force’s revised and updated Environmental Impact Statement just released (May 31st, […]
Tuesday, June 11th, 2013 Burlington VT The Center for Media & Democracy (Channel 17) recorded the recent public gathering at The Unitarian Universalist Church on May 30th, 2013 in Burlington Vermont entitled, “F-35: A Citizens’ Hearing” Click to watch the program here. Please call me (Chris Hurd) at 802.238.5256 so I can get your name, […]
Thursday, June 6th, 2013 Burlington VT NBC Affiliate WPTZ-TV journalist, David Charns, reports on the magnitude of today’s Harper’s Magazine article by Andrew Cockburn about the basing of the F-35 Warplanes in Burlington Vermont. Watch the video feed here A portion of the article reads, “The Air Force and the FAA later acknowledged that the […]
Thursday, June 6th, 2013 Washington DC Journalist, Andrew Cockburn, reports in a national level article on the deepening opposition to the basing of F-35 Warplanes in Burlington Vermont. Please read Mr. Cockburn’s article, Flight of the Discords here: Please call me (Chris Hurd) at 802.238.5256 so I can get your name, email address and phone […]
Saturday, June 8th, 2013 Washington DC Time Magazine is publishing a 5 part series on the F-35 this week. The journalist, Winslow Wheeler, is the Director of the Straus Military Reform Project of the Center for Defense Information, a part of the Project on Government Oversight (POGO) in Washington, DC. He has authored two books: The Wastrels […]
Wednesday, June 5th, 2013 Washington DC The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter is a textbook case of a Pentagon procurement project that reveals why it is difficult to cut the defence budget. Three versions of the F-35 are being built for the Air Force, Navy and Marines by Lockheed Martin, the largest defence contractor in the […]