Sharon Delgado

Pastor, Author, Speaker, Activist

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Year: 2013

  • Immigration, Solidarity, and People Power

    I love my community.  Pascale Fusshoeller, one of our own, was arrested on immigration charges and threatened with immediate deportation.  Our community rallied to her support, somehow pulling together a legal team and raising money for her defense.  Supporters created a FaceBook page within hours, which received over 1200 “likes” within days.  People made so…

  • Climate Change: What do we know? What can we do?

    I am happy to announce the release of my new educational CD, “Climate Change:  What do we know?  What can we do?”  The MP3 version is available to listen to or download below.  Contact me to purchase the CD version ($10).  It will be available through online distributors soon.    The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate…

  • Aren’t Drones Better than All-Out War?

    I wrote the following article, which was published Monday by Prism Magazine: RESISTING DRONE WARFARE Posted by prism on Monday, September 30, 2013 by Sharon Delgado Beale Air Force Base near Marysville, Calif., is the home of Global Hawk surveillance drones, which identify targets for armed drone attacks.  Drones are remote-control, pilotless, aerial vehicles that are controlled…

  • Voice of God, Voice of the Earth

    Yesterday I played on the trampoline with two of my little granddaughters.  We laughed so much.  We spent part of the time lying on our backs watching the little cedar helicopter seeds spin slowly down on us as the wind blew. Fall is arriving.  Today is the Autumn Equinox.  And right on schedule, the rain…

  • Beale 5 Statements: Shirley

    For the past few days I have posted the statements that Janie Kesselman, David Hartsough, and Jan Hartsough gave in court last Monday before we were sentenced for civil disobedience at Beale.  Today I am posting  Shirley’s article which appears on the Radical Art for These Times (RAFTT) website.  Shirley did not write a statement but she…

  • Beale 5 Statements: Jan

    Below is the statement Jan Hartsough gave on September 9 at our sentencing hearing for our nonviolent protest against drones at Beale Air Force Base. For background on the Beale 5 case and on drone warfare, see my past blog postings on drones. Jan Hartsough’s Statement By standing at the gates of Beale Air Force Base…

  • Beale 5 Statements: David

    Below is the statement David Hartsough gave on September 9 at our sentencing hearing for our nonviolent protest against drones at Beale Air Force Base. For background on the Beale 5 case and on drone warfare, see my past blog postings on drones. David Hartsough’s statement  Drones have killed thousands of innocent civilians and are…

  • Beale 5 Statements: Janie

    For the next few days I’m going to post the statements that my co-defendants gave in court before we were sentenced.  I am grateful to have shared this experience with them.  For details about the trial of the Beale 5, the first trial of anti-drone activists in California, and about the harm caused by drone…

  • Beale Anti-Drone Protestors Sentenced to Community Service

    My four friends and I were sentenced today to ten hours each of community service by the judge who convicted us last month of trespassing onto Beale Air Force Base during an anti-drone protest.   Judge Carolyn K. Delaney in U.S. District Court in Sacramento acknowledged that we were motivated by conscience and by “deeply…

  • Family Camp and Beyond

    We got back Monday night from our annual family camp.  We spent four days at Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park, camping with our grown kids and grandkids, taking day trips to the beach, wharf, coffee shops, and out to eat in Santa Cruz, with campfires at night and in the mornings.  The kids were happy…