Resistance Actions to Ground the F-35 Fighter Jet and Abolish War

media release: Nonviolent resistance actions will happen early Monday morning, March 27, 2023. More than 60 activists, including Iowa County parish priest Father Jim Murphy, will take part in protesting the F-35 fighter jets, which are scheduled to come to Truax Field in Madison this spring.  These jets were opposed by the MMSD School Board and the Madison City Council.  Activists are calling on the Governor to change the mission of Truax ANG base to a peaceful one.  Monday in Burlington, VT, the other F-35 base, activists are also demonstrating.  

"Help us say no to war, environmental pollution, militarism, and F-35’s in Madison or anywhere else." - Andrea Novotney, Great Turning Catholic Worker Farm, Madison

 "We call for grounding the F-35 fighter jets, gun control at the Pentagon, and war abolition: an end to the organized mass murder called war." - Janet Parker, Madison for a World BEYOND War.

“We want the Governor to meet with a delegation of Safe Skies representatives in order to discuss the F-35 project and to propose a solution that will meet the needs and concerns of Madison residents and our local public official allies.  We want the Governor to negotiate with the Air Force to create a new mission for the Air National Guard at Truax Field.”  - Safe Skies organizer Tom Boswell

5:00 am Gather at Truax - Wisconsin Air National Guard Base, 3200 Pierstorff St.

5:30 am   Nonviolent resistance action begins.  Sunrise is at 6:49 am.

8:45 am    Gather at the East Entrance to the Capitol for a rally.

This weekend, Madison hosted the 20th Catholic Worker Midwest Faith and Resistance Gathering this past weekend, to prepare for nonviolent resistance actions in Madison on Monday, March 27 to oppose war and F-35 fighter jets.  

Madison Veterans for Peace, Safe Skies Clean Water Wisconsin, Madison for a World BEYOND War are local hosts.  Madison activists are joined by Catholic Workers who converged from Missouri, Ohio, Kansas, Iowa, Illinois, Minnesota, Maryland and Wisconsin.  CODEPINK: Women for Peace are partners in the action also.

More details: https://www.safeskiescleanwaterwi.org/save-the-date-march-24-27-catholic-worker-faith-resistance-gathering-no-f-35s/

Catholic Worker was formed in the depths of the Great Depression, 1933, when Dorothy Day and a few others hawked The Catholic Worker in New York’s Union Square. Today there are 187 Catholic Worker communities committed to non-violence, voluntary poverty, prayer and hospitality. They continue to protest injustice, war, racism, and violence of all forms.