Sharon Delgado

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Category: Drones

  • Why I’ll be at Beale on Good Friday

      On April On April 18, Good Friday, I will gather with others at the main gate of Beale Air Force Base at 3 p.m. for a prayer service and demonstration against drone warfare.  Kathy Kelly, an internationally recognized peace activist, will join us there. Why Beale?  Because Beale is home of the Global Hawk…

  • Fly Kites not Drones

      “Fly Kites not Drones” was the theme of our last demonstration at Beale, home of the Global Hawk Drone, a surveillance drone that helps identify targets for armed drones.   This phrase perfectly expresses the hope that “another world is possible.” Fly kites not drones. Plant gardens not land mines. Scatter seeds not shrapnel. Build…

  • The Things that Make for Peace

    I delivered this message at the Ash Wednesday worship service at Beale Air Force Base. As Jesus came near and saw the city, he wept over it,  saying, “If you, even you, had only recognized on this day the things that make for peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes.  Indeed, the days will come…

  • Ash Wednesday Worship and Arrests at Beale

    Today, on Ash Wednesday, I participated in a deeply meaningful worship service and nonviolent direct action against drones at the gate of Beale Air Force Base.  In the words of Martin Luther King, Jr., “My body is tired but my soul is rested.”  Actions of faith and conscience are good for the soul.  You can…

  • Nonviolent Direct Action and Christian Peacemaking

    This Youtube video, “The Role of Nonviolent Direct Action in Christian Peacemaking,” is from my recent presentation at Parkside Church in Sacramento.   It includes stories about what has shaped my peacemaking journey over the years.  It also includes stories about Jesus and his participation in nonviolent direct action, which inspired both Gandhi and Martin Luther King,…

  • Wheatland 4 Found “Guilty” in Beale Action

    On Monday, February 3, I attended the support rally and federal trial of the “Wheatland 4.”  The four anti-drone activists, Toby Blome’, Robin Ryan, Martha Huber, and Bill Daub, had been  arrested last April, 2013, during a nonviolent protest for crossing the demarcation line at the Wheatland Gate onto Beale Air Force Base.  The judge…

  • More Arrests at Beale

    On Tuesday, November 26, I was at Beale Air Force Base when four more people were arrested  while nonviolently protesting drone warfare.  Flora Rogers, Mike Kerr, MacGregor Eddy, and Shirley Osgood (with whom I was arrested at Beale in October 2012) were attempting to deliver a letter to Colonel Phillip A. Stewart, the base commander,…

  • Speaking Out Against Drone Attacks

    I was moved the other day when my daughter posted to FaceBook and commented on the story of the drone strike in Pakistan that killed a grandmother, Mamana Bibi, and injured several of her grandchildren while they were working in the family garden.  My daughter wrote:  “Imagine a 68 year old woman picking vegetables with…

  • 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…

  • 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…