STOP RECRUITING CHILDREN FOR WAR
REDIRECT MILITARY SPENDING: HOUSING, HEALTHCARE, EDUCATION, CHILDCARE
Contact us to get involved! Meet us there. The Air Show is at the Waterloo International Airport in Breslau.
See here for event info.
Redirect Military Spending is a campaign initiated by the Canadian Peace Alliance. Please click here for more information.
– The impact on the poor old environment is significant – and Nestle, is a sponsor.
Recruiting Our Children For War:
Scroll through the info at the following link, it describes the fighter jet display and the drone simulator for kids.
It also highlights the appeal to children, with the inclusion of a cartoon airplane character:
http://www.waterlooairshow.com/blog
Meet and greet for local kids with pilot who dropped bombs on kids in faraway places:
The following two links give more info on the CF-18 display, including Captain Patrick “Flocho” Pollen, whose claim to fame includes dropping bombs in Afghanistan and Libya.
http://www.waterlooairshow.com/performers/in-the-air
http://www.rcaf-arc.forces.gc.ca/v2/cf18/page-eng.asp?id=1861
The Captain is also speaking at the M Museum for kids to get autographs.
http://themuseum.ca/events/canadian-forces-pilot-captain-pollen-cf-18-demonstration-team
http://stufftodowithyourkidsinkw.blogspot.ca/
Please note that the M Museum is also exhibiting ‘Bob Marley, One Love’ and ‘World Refugee Art Exhibit’ during the Month of June.
http://www.themuseum.ca/exhibitions
Drone Simulators, Gift of Lockheed Martin’s Campaign to Recruit Children into Military Industrial Complex:
The following 2 links tell more about those drone simulators for youngsters. By LM’s own admission the simulators are designed to attract a large number of youngsters into the war industry through the seduction of high-tech gadgets:
Environmental impact:
Check out the sidebar half-way through the article at this link:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2011/03/21/f-cf18-hornet-bg.html
If the facts given in the CBC link are correct and have been properly converted between kg/litres at jet fules 0.81 average density and not water’s density, then a full armed CF-18 has a maximum fuel capacity of 15 780 litres. It can travel 2 340 km before refueling.
Therefore CF-18 fighter jet burns 674 litres/100km of denser, heavier, more toxic jet fuel
An average car in NA burns an average of 12 litres/100km
A Volkswagen burns an average of just 0.9 litres/100km of lighter, less polluting automobile fuel
Pro-Military Air Show’s Psychological Effect On Children:
Check out the following documentary, produced by the Dundas Independent Video Association. In it we see a Homes Not Bombs placard.
** Stop Recruiting Our Children For War banner was created by Maine artists Natasha Mayers and Nora Tryon and was used during protests at the 2012 ‘Great Maine Air Show’ in Brunswick, Maine ** See for details: http://space4peace.blogspot.ca/2012/08/two-day-airshow-protest.html
TWITTER campaign info: http://povertymakesussick.wordpress.com/2013/05/30/twitter-campaign-to-oppose-waterloo-air-show/