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Webinar Recording: Resisting Fighter Jets at Home and Abroad

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July 7, 2021

This event is being held to stop the Canadian government from buying a new fleet of costly-carbon intensive combat aircraft, find out more about the #NoNewFighterJets campaign here: www.nofighterjets.ca

This webinar features peace activists from Canada, Israel, Wisconsin and Vermont about how they are resisting the procurement, use and basing of fighter jets. Participants:
  • Pitasanna Shanmugathas & Rachel Small from the No New Fighter Jets Coalition who are trying to stop Canada from buying 88 new fighter jets at a life-cycle cost of $76.8 billion.
  • Yonatan Shapira, a former Israeli Air Force pilot turned peace activist, speaking about the destruction caused by Israel’s F-35 Joint Strike fighter jets in Gaza and the futility of fighter jets for defence.
  • From Vermont, Colonel Rosanne Greco, a retired US Air Force intelligence officer, and John Reuwer, a member of World BEYOND War’s Board of Directors, sharing their struggle to stop the placement of F-35s in Burlington.
  • Vicki Berenson, an organizer with Safe Skies Clean Water Wisconsin, talks about the campaign to stop the siting of F-35s at Truax Air National Guard base in Madison.
Organized by the Canadian Voice of Women for Peace, Science for Peace and World Beyond War Canada.