{"id":59,"date":"2021-06-30T20:19:25","date_gmt":"2021-07-01T06:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/departmentofintelligence.ch\/wp\/?p=59"},"modified":"2021-07-07T11:31:27","modified_gmt":"2021-07-07T21:31:27","slug":"drone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/departmentofintelligence.ch\/wp\/drone\/","title":{"rendered":"End Drone Killings"},"content":{"rendered":"

Letter to President Biden urging an end to Drone Assassinations:<\/em><\/p>\n

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June 30, 2021<\/div>\n
President Joseph R. Biden, Jr.<\/div>\n
The White House<\/div>\n
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW<\/div>\n
Washington, D.C. 20500<\/div>\n
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Dear President Biden,<\/div>\n
We, the undersigned organizations, focus variously on human rights, civil rights and civil liberties, racial, social, and environmental justice, humanitarian approaches to foreign policy, faith based initiatives, peacebuilding, government accountability, veterans\u2019 issues, and the protection of civilians. We write to demand an end to the unlawful program of lethal strikes outside any recognized battlefield, including through the use of drones. This program is a centerpiece of the United States\u2019 forever wars and has exacted an appalling toll on Muslim, Brown, and Black communities in multiple parts of the<\/div>\n
world. Your administration’s current review of this program, and the approaching 20th anniversary of<\/div>\n
9\/11, is an opportunity to abandon this war based approach and chart a new path forward that promotes and respects our collective human security. Successive presidents have now claimed the unilateral power to authorize secretive extrajudicial killing outside any recognized battlefield, with no meaningful accountability for wrongful deaths and civilian lives lost and injured. This lethal strikes program is a cornerstone of the broader U.S. war based approach, which has led to wars and other violent conflicts; hundreds of thousands dead, including<\/div>\n
significant civilian casualties; massive human displacement; and indefinite military detention and<\/div>\n
torture. It has caused lasting psychological trauma and deprived families of beloved members, as well<\/div>\n
as means of survival. In the United States, this approach has contributed to further militarized and violent approaches to domestic policing; bias based racial, ethnic, and religious profiling in investigations, prosecutions, and watchlisting; warrantless surveillance; and epidemic rates of addiction and suicide among veterans, among other harms. It is past time to change course and start repairing<\/div>\n
the damage done. We appreciate your stated commitments to ending \u201cforever wars,\u201d promoting racial justice, and centering human rights in U.S. foreign policy. Disavowing and ending the lethal strikes program is both<\/div>\n
a human rights and racial justice imperative in meeting these commitments. Twenty years into a war based approach that has undermined and violated fundamental rights, we urge you to abandon it and embrace an approach that advances our collective human security. That approach should be rooted in promoting human rights, justice, equality, dignity, peacebuilding, diplomacy, and accountability, in action as well as words.<\/div>\n
Sincerely,<\/div>\n
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U.S. Based Organizations<\/strong><\/div>\n
About Face: Veterans Against the War<\/div>\n
Action Center on Race & the Economy<\/div>\n
Alliance for Peacebuilding<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Alliance of Baptists<\/div>\n
American Arab AntiDiscrimination Committee (ADC)<\/div>\n
American Civil Liberties Union<\/div>\n
American Friends<\/div>\n
Service Committee<\/div>\n
American Muslim Bar Association (AMBA)<\/div>\n
American Muslim Empowerment Network (AMEN)<\/div>\n
Amnesty International USA<\/div>\n
Beyond the Bomb<\/div>\n
Center for Civilians in Conflict (CIVIC)<\/div>\n
Center for Constitutional Rights<\/div>\n
Center for Victims of Torture<\/div>\n
CODEPINK<\/div>\n
Columban Center for Advocacy and Outreach<\/div>\n
Columbia Law School Human Rights Institute<\/div>\n
Common Defense<\/div>\n
Center for International Policy<\/div>\n
Center for Nonviolent Solutions<\/div>\n
Church of the Brethren, Office of Peacebuilding and Policy<\/div>\n
CorpWatch<\/div>\n
Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR)<\/div>\n
Council on American Islamic Relations (Washington Chapter)<\/div>\n
Defending Rights & Dissent<\/div>\n
Demand Progress Education Fund<\/div>\n
Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN)<\/div>\n
Dissenters<\/div>\n
Empowering Pacific Islander Communities (EPIC)<\/div>\n
Ensaaf Friends<\/div>\n
Committee on National Legislation<\/div>\n
Global Justice Clinic, NYU School of Law<\/div>\n
Government Information Watch<\/div>\n
Human Rights First<\/div>\n
Human Rights Watch<\/div>\n
ICNA Council for Social Justice<\/div>\n
Institute for Policy Studies, New Internationalism Project<\/div>\n
Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility<\/div>\n
International Civil Society Action Network (ICAN)<\/div>\n
Justice For Muslims Collective<\/div>\n
Kairos Center for Religions, Rights and Social Justice<\/div>\n
Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns<\/div>\n
Military Families Speak Out<\/div>\n
Muslim Justice League<\/div>\n
National<\/div>\n
Religious Campaign Against Torture<\/div>\n
North Carolina Peace Action<\/div>\n
Open Society Policy Center<\/div>\n
Orange County Peace Coalition<\/div>\n
Pax Christi USA<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Peace Action<\/div>\n
Peace Education Center<\/div>\n
Poligon Education Fund<\/div>\n
Presbyterian Church (USA) Office of Public Witness<\/div>\n
Progressive Democrats of America<\/div>\n
Project Blueprint<\/div>\n
Queer Crescent<\/div>\n
Rethinking Foreign Policy<\/div>\n
RootsAction.org<\/div>\n
Saferworld (Washington Office)<\/div>\n
Samuel DeWitt Proctor Conference<\/div>\n
September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows<\/div>\n
ShelterBox USA<\/div>\n
South Asian Americans Leading Together (SAALT)<\/div>\n
Sunrise Movement<\/div>\n
United Church of Christ, Justice and Witness Ministries<\/div>\n
United for Peace and Justice<\/div>\n
University Network for Human Rights<\/div>\n
US Campaign for Palestinian Rights<\/div>\n
Veterans for American Ideals (VFAI)<\/div>\n
Veterans For Peace<\/div>\n
Western New<\/div>\n
York Pax Christi<\/div>\n
Win Without War<\/div>\n
Women for Afghan Women<\/div>\n
Women for Weapons Trade Transparency<\/div>\n
Women Watch Afrika<\/div>\n
Women’s Action for New Directions<\/div>\n
Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom US<\/div>\n
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Internationally Based Organizations<\/strong><\/div>\n
AFARD<\/div>\n
MALI (Mali)<\/div>\n
Alf Ba Civilian and Coexistence Foundation (Yemen)<\/div>\n
Allamin Foundation for Peace and Development (Nigeria)<\/div>\n
BUCOFORE (Chad)<\/div>\n
Building Blocks for Peace Foundation (Nigeria)<\/div>\n
Campa\u00f1a Colombiana Contra Minas (Colombia)<\/div>\n
Centre for Democracy and Development (Nigeria)<\/div>\n
Center for Policy Analysis of Horn of Africa (Somaliland)<\/div>\n
Conciliation Resources (United Kingdom)<\/div>\n
Defence for Human Rights (Yemen)<\/div>\n
Digital Shelter (Somalia)<\/div>\n
Drone Wars UK<\/div>\n
European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights<\/div>\n
Foundation for Fundamental Rights (Pakistan)<\/div>\n
Heritage Institute for Somali Studies (Somalia)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Initiatives for International Dialogue (Philippines)<\/div>\n
International Association for Political Science Students (IAPSS)<\/div>\n
IRIAD (Italy)<\/div>\n
Justice Project Pakistan<\/div>\n
Lawyers for Justice in Libya (LFJL)<\/div>\n
Mareb Girls Foundation (Yemen)<\/div>\n
Mwatana for Human Rights (Yemen)<\/div>\n
National Organization for Development Society (Yemen)<\/div>\n
National Partnership of Children and Youth in Peacebuilding (Democratic Republic of the Congo)<\/div>\n
PAX (Netherlands)<\/div>\n
Peace Direct (United Kingdom)<\/div>\n
Peace Initiative Network (Nigeria)<\/div>\n
Peace Training and Research Organisation (PTRO) (Afghanistan)<\/div>\n
Reprieve (United Kingdom)<\/div>\n
Shadow World Investigations (United Kingdom)<\/div>\n
Witness Somalia<\/div>\n
Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF)<\/div>\n
World BEYOND War<\/div>\n
Yemeni Youth Forum for Peace<\/div>\n
The Youth Cafe (Kenya)<\/div>\n
Youth for Peace and Development (Zimbabwe)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Letter to President Biden urging an end to Drone Assassinations: June 30, 2021 President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, D.C. 20500 Dear President Biden, We, the undersigned organizations, focus variously on human rights, civil rights and civil liberties, racial, social, and environmental justice, humanitarian approaches to foreign policy, faith based initiatives, peacebuilding, government accountability, veterans\u2019 issues, and the protection of civilians. We write to demand an end to the unlawful program of lethal strikes outside any recognized battlefield, including through the use of drones. This program is a centerpiece of the United States\u2019 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5,3,4],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-assassination","tag-drone","tag-killing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/departmentofintelligence.ch\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/departmentofintelligence.ch\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/departmentofintelligence.ch\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/departmentofintelligence.ch\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/departmentofintelligence.ch\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/departmentofintelligence.ch\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61,"href":"https:\/\/departmentofintelligence.ch\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions\/61"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/departmentofintelligence.ch\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/departmentofintelligence.ch\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/departmentofintelligence.ch\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}