Sharon Delgado

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Category: Drones

  • Dust in the Wind

    This blog summarizes Sharon Delgado’s words at the Ash Wednesday service at the front gates of Beale Air Force Base, on February 18, 2015.  Go to Videos of Ash Wednesday at Beale to see several brief videos of the day’s events. The focus of Ash Wednesday is mortality and repentance—two primary aspects of faith.  It…

  • Kathy Kelly—Serving Time

    My friend Kathy Kelly is now behind bars, in prison in Lexington, Kentucky.  Kathy, an internationally recognized peace activist, is serving a three-month prison term for crossing the line onto Whiteman Air Force Base property.  She and Georgia Walker were attempting to deliver a loaf of bread and a letter to the base commander, asking…

  • Waging Peace

    The new book, Waging Peace:  Global Adventures of a Lifelong Activist by veteran peace activist David Hartsough, is part autobiography, part recent history, and part call to action.  The book shows how a commitment to active nonviolence can plant the seeds and provide the impetus for significant social transformation. In 2012 I was arrested with…

  • Arrested While Dancing at Beale

    On Tuesday morning I was arrested again at Beale Air Force Base while dancing at the main gate.  Eight others were arrested with me, while demonstrating peace through the Dances of Universal Peace. We were cited and released. Two other demonstrators had been arrested the day before, on Monday:  John Auer, another ordained United Methodist…

  • Campaign Nonviolence Arrests at Beale

    On Monday afternoon, September 29, two anti-drone demonstrators were arrested for trespassing onto Beale Air Force Base.  My good friend, The Reverend John Auer, a retired United Methodist pastor from Fresno, offered a prayer for peace and for the earth.  Then he crossed the line onto base property, assisted by my beloved, Guarionex Delgado.  He…

  • Resolution: A Call to Stop Drone Killings

      This resolution was passed without debate on the consent calendar at the 2014 California-Nevada Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church, held in Burlingame, California, in June 2014. Be it resolved: That the California-Nevada Annual Conference affirms the 2012 General Conference Resolution 6128, Seeking Peace in Afghanistan, which includes a call for: “an immediate…

  • Campaign Nonviolence:  A Call to Transformation

    Why do I engage in nonviolent direct action?  Why will I go back to Beale later this month to demonstrate, even as all the charges against me and other anti-drone demonstrators have been dropped?  Because I believe that through nonviolent action we can be transformed and can contribute to the transformation of the world. Our…

  • Beale Case Dismissed

    The government has dismissed the case against sixteen of us who were arrested last April for civil disobedience at Beale Air Force Base.  Beale, outside Marysville, California, is home of the Global Hawk Drone, a surveillance drone that identifies targets for armed Predator and Reaper drones. We’ll be back!  In fact, we’ll be back later…

  • Facing Charges–Again

      I am facing charges again.  I will be arraigned with at least fifteen other anti-drone demonstrators in federal court on September 9 in Sacramento.  I consider it a privilege to be part of a sustained movement of nonviolent resistance to the current unjust global system, which is violent to the core. Beale Air Force…

  • Detained with Kathy Kelly at Beale on Good Friday

    On April 18 I was detained with ten other anti-drone protesters, including internationally recognized peace activist Kathy Kelly, following a Good Friday prayer service. The others who were detained included:     The Reverend Dr. Gerald O. (Jerry) Pedersen, retired Lutheran pastor and member of Veterans for Peace, from Sacramento;  The Reverend Elizabeth Griswold, pastor of Parkside…