 There's some we know Morgan is gonna go back. I'm good. I'm gonna go up there. Oh, I think it's better up there Right now there are about Seven on this side and three on the other side of the road, maybe we should all move Yeah, I think so because more people will see us and anybody who's coming here is gonna come through the entry Hello They do weekend flights About once a month. They do night flights Several times a month At least it appears that way from where we live in Wanooski because they fly right over us F-35s are nuclear capable weapons and They are ear splitting and Also just so dangerous there have been wrecks in a lot of places and we're afraid that they're gonna happen where we live It's more than just not in my backyard It is these these weapons are incredibly dangerous to both the Proponents of democracy and anybody else. They're dangerous weapons and I wish that the US would join the the treaty to Acknowledge that nuclear weapons are illegal. These paper cranes by the way are from Japan they were Folded by Japanese people who can remember Hiroshima and Nagasaki and know what it's like when nuclear weapons are used on any Population the peace crane, you know has the story of Sadako Sasaki Which is you can read read a book called Sadako Sasaki in the thousand paper cranes because the idea is that When you fold a thousand cranes you give a wish and we wish for peace So there you have it More Okay, so Dan do you want to start okay? Hi everybody, my name is Dan catch for Gano Burlington's New North End the F-35 Rip over the New North End. It's just like all over Vermont toddler It sucks. I hate the F-35s. I hate airplanes 35 wake him up when he's napping I've covered his ears before when we're outside They're terrifying. They carry illegal weapons I'm one of the organizers with the group called safe landing BTV and so It's the same core group that fought in one when the Berlin when Burlington Airport tried to expand And we organized and we were victorious. We have a W, which is awesome. And now we're going on the offensive So we just wrote our goals Two goals no expansion of the airport at all protect the working-class neighborhood of the Chamberlain neighborhood of South Burlington Protect the new ski protect everywhere around the airport So no expansion. That's our first goal and our second goal is to immediately ramp down aviation because of the climate emergency There's been one Airport in the whole world that has reduced emissions because of the climate emergency that is Amsterdam That's skimple airport Amsterdam That's the first airport in the world and our goal is to be the second airport in the world and we can do it It's a winnable fight. We can beat Nick Longo. We can beat Mayor Weinberger in the city council They own and operate the airport and we could put this public pressure on them to immediately ramp down the aviation Because of the climate emergency that includes the F-35s that includes private aircrafts includes commercial aviation and we're organizing We have our first meeting at 1 p.m. Today at Venetian soda lounge That's on Pine Street in Burlington. It's an open meeting if you want to come meet some of us Please do they've got cocktails mocktails and food But it's a good place to get to know each other and to really ramp up this campaign It's a winnable fight and I hope that you can join us. So the anti-war crowd anti-nuclear crowd the climate crowd the housing crowd We can all work together to win this fight Venetian soda lounge 266 Pine Street in Burlington if you want to learn more go to safelandingbtv.org Or follow us on Instagram at safelandingbtv So I hope everybody plans on coming down to the Venetian soda lounge as Dan mentioned we are going to build a movement We're going to build a huge campaign to stop the F-35 and to reduce airport emissions Did you know that if you added up all the carbon dioxide emissions? from all the commercial airliner flights It's about the same as the emissions from just one airplane the F-35 So the way to cut airport emissions is to remove the F-35 from this This is the way to get started with reducing airport emissions get rid of the F-35 It does us. No good. There is no good whatsoever from having an F-35 in a city This is the place. You don't want to have dangerous military equipment The military itself will tell you that their regulations will give it military operations in populated areas their regulations require what they call distinction separation of military forces from populated areas and This F-35 is the most valuable of military assets It's the place where it will be targeted by Russian and Chinese nuclear missiles because it is so Valuable a weapon. That's one of the reasons you want to keep it away from populated areas because you're making tens of thousands of monitors into human shields for the F-35 by basing it in a city This is insanity. This is so much in violation of military regulations and international law It's a war crime and no one has pointed out The war crime of mingling military forces with populated areas more than the United States We criticize all these insurgent groups where we're conducting military operations to do it for for being part of the civilian population and here we are right here in Vermont Creating the war crime of human shielding We don't want to be targeted by nuclear missiles This is not just a matter of the 115 decibel noise Dan pointed out that he has an infant son one year old Why should that child be subjected to 115 decibels for the next 18 years? Hundreds of times a month to be exposed to noise at this level. This is damaging Ourself what kind of military damages your own people? Okay, so now we have time. Oh, I just wanted to mention one more thing Well, I just just just thought you might like to know that here in South Burlington is where the airport is this is the city that has the airport and I've been doing some research and I've learned that the city council of every town city and village in Vermont Is delegated with the authority to protect the health safety welfare and convenience of the people you do know that by the by state law the state law it says that vehicles of every kind can be regulated by the state by the city state To protect health safety welfare and convenience. Well, there is a vehicle right here at this airport and That means that the city of South Burlington is empowered by our state To regulate it So and the federal government Delegates the power to the states to regulate the national guard of that state to regulate the training of the national guard The training well, that's what they're doing here. They're training So this is a state function and the state is delegated to the city to regulate So what does this mean? We just need our city councils our select boards to pass ordinance So for that reason I'm gonna run for the city council in the mark And I'm hoping people from all the other towns and villages cities around here Or Williston or Burlington or Essex or any other town you will run and Why not let's make this an issue in the election. We're gonna be continuing to have events But we can also put it forward to the public that we have the power I think that's the one thing people don't realize They think that this is federal that you can't fight the military whatever all kinds of reasons, but none of them are true We have the power where the people and we are going to assert that power So let's let's think about putting forward ourselves as candidates. Okay, who else wants to speak? A lot of people they will ask why I am here. We are Cosponsoring with coaching this event. They asked us to do so, but the second question The most important maybe you are worried about the sound after a fight, but us in Palestine You have been bombarded by after a fight in four wars in four wars in the last 15 years on a Gaddaa 2.2 million people are living over there And they have been in an open air jail for 15 years because of the siege that Israel with support of the United States are creating over there You are worried about the sound which is legitimate Talk about it is a healthy problem. It's environmental problem But think about the F-35 that one being people in Palestine in Libya on Iraq in Syria and in Yemen What about that? And you say maybe oh it's far away. I live in Vermont. Vermont National Guard and They travel all the time and Tax dollars and you are responsible for it How much you're going to hide from it? It's your responsibility And if you are silent you are part of the crime Military poison We actually did some testing And I think it's really important to recognize that all of these things are connected We talk about climate change, but getting people to also recognize what Rachel Fart said recognized Years ago that we're poisoning ourselves, and if the military has a huge number of poisons and super fun sites We may not be a super fun We have PFAS contamination still And supposedly the Department of Defense has finally after like almost 50 years Recognized that they should stop using AFF firefighting foam with PFAS in it However, the irony is that they said they're going to stop in October of 2024 and use PFAS free foam and some of our experts actually military firefighters Have said that the specs for that phone still So it is so important for us to be vigilant at all times And tying in the nuclear aspect one of our people is an expert who looks at what's happening around the world Like US military bases and in Okinawa. We have literally poisoned the water with radiation So there are some really serious issues about what we're also doing in other countries around the world We're destroying them, we're poisoning their soils and whatever you mean We're doing it, but there was a great article this morning, Google article on the F-35 I'm not sure if it was totally humorous, but it basically says that the F-35 had an ejectile dysfunction problem, easy an ejectile dysfunction problem when they take off and when they land so We should take that seriously because those kinds of accidents caused all kinds of pollution I think that Lachey's last vote before he retired Was to vote for the omnibus spending bill Which included earmarks millions of dollars of earmarks for this airport Money that hasn't yet been spent This airport is a bad neighbor to this neighborhood and to surrounding communities The military is a bad neighbor. It's actively harming people and I think that Holding the airport to account and holding the military to account as a neighbor is really important to me and I felt so Inspired by the wind that we had when the airport was wanting to expand into the neighborhood Well, we prevented that from happening and that was incredible And as Isaac alluded to there are winnable fights That was a winnable fight. We need to hold this airport to account and I think that there is a Convergence of all of these issues around And in many ways the climate for one Aviation flying is a climate killer. Most people don't know that and those who can't afford to fly Are really killing folks all over the world who can't afford to fly and that to me is a social justice issue that Many people are not even aware of if you're looking to reduce your so-called carbon footprint in this world That's something really important that you can do The F-35 is also a climate killer Emissions from the F-35 Emissions from all flights out of the airport are not counted in the climate action plan or for South Burlington or the net serial roadmap for Burlington Hundreds of thousands of tons of CO2 every year that are not counted That must be done and that's something that we're working on And I believe that that is a winnable fight. I truly do and we really can make some progress in that regard and something else That I think is important to To mention here with regard to the F-35 is that and and the airport and preventing airport expansion people are Are Complaining about the housing shortage. It's dire. We know it is I consider housing a human right The F-35 is preventing 44 acres of land on which 200 homes were destroyed Preventing housing from being built in a beautiful walkable community right here in Chamberlain people Business owners are having a hard time hiring because people cannot find housing that is an economic issue if you care about local economics if you care about supporting businesses then you should care about The fact that the F-35 is denying is preventing hundreds of houses from being built so I just needed to To kind of bring that into the mix because you know I think it all it so often gets back to the economic argument and folks lose sight of that And I guess that's it. I live in Burlington. I work in South Burlington We work together. This is my mom my stepfather and they will attest that it is literally painful when the F-35 flyover we work next to pizza pot and And you know, I remember it one of the South Burlington meetings in the spring hearing from Librarian who can no longer read outdoors with his children with his students And that is unacceptable and it's got to stop Thank you for listening. Thank you I think that politely um where you can get people to fear for their lives like like with like with and um Like with the milk with the military and the the dangers from some other countries It's it's easy to exaggerate the dangers that other countries pose and and it's and it's hard to control spending and I have and I and I have a quick the military and the And the healthcare industry because people I mean the healthcare industry people do complain something about when they when the president's really really economical so they're a little easier a little bit easier to Accountable but but not the military people are willing to spend anything if they They they fear for their lives from the from from from this from the string from the farm That's a really that's a that's a that's difficult to overcome to get to get to get to get a move in against Thing to to try and and hope that the health back It's about making connection with other movements and other organizers and I appreciate Someone bringing up the battery park movement and what all the racial justice organizing came in the summer There are people still organizing around those issues and they didn't win everything they wanted to win It's likely that the police budget or the democrats are going to push to increase the police budget again So there's an event on Tuesday night at the library in Burlington 6 p.m So the flexor free library and It's got a bunch of really great organizers Jessica with pork Works with people for police accountability And a few other really great organizers and so I just want to really push climate and you know Military and peace oriented people to also engage with those other local flights that again Are still connected to the same underlying system. And so when we think about movement building It's not just building a movement to do to aim at this little piece of the puzzle This is just emblematic of everything that's going on. And so There's other flights that are going on. That's an awesome one. We need to to support that and show solidarity So again, Tuesday night This week 6 p.m at the library would be awesome to see some either And before we just ban too, um, if you want to see me and get on the safe landing email lists Please do I can write your email down on my phone and hope to see it one o'clock in 45 minutes I'll facilitate that meeting I think there'll be a lot of people there and then facilitate it and then close and then There'll be time for people to hang out and get to know each other too I'd like to unbother action soon We come from playing field and I just like to Say a couple of things one is that It's all part of the corporate military governmental stuff if these guys didn't sign up for it If we didn't elect them or appoint them, we wouldn't be in the shithole that we're in today All right, and it's it's just needs to stop every morning I get up and I try to think how I can best spend my day Trying to shut this crap down because I've got survivors. I've got myself Probably got another quarter century to live here, but you know, it's just Where do we stop this stuff? You know every day you need to be a climate warrior. You need to be an f35 warrior You need to just be Ready to say no to whoever you need to say no to And tell them to stop You know, don't go out for him consider not paying Figure out how much percentage of your tax dollar Or percentage of the federal budget goes to the military And consider not paying that when you pay your taxes Cut them off at at the throat, you know Don't let them keep doing this because it's just it's Impossible to live on a planet that's going to be Dying day by day by day two more years one more year Whatever it's going to take to get past the tipping point Then you think we're going to have trouble with f35. We're going to have trouble with everything going on in the world And it's just time to put your foot on the brake and say no, no, no That's not the way that people should be living and that's not the way that people should be treated This is the first, I don't know if you knew, but Monday It's the first death by murder of the Atlanta police of the planet activists Murder for protecting the forest So think about this bullshit caught industrial complex. It's going on paramilitary stuff No, no, no and no Thanks, I'd like to ask has have people been in touch with Becca Ballant I mean, we have a new representative in Congress representing us and She's a progressive person. I'm just wondering Who do you think she's I mean we should pressure her Are these because she's Maybe she's between Bernie and uh and may he in terms of politics of peace and war and so Don't forget her. That's that would be valuable to do There are a few more fliers here and we can take bring them to the You've been working hard And uh any other speakers? Do you want us to come in? Well, thanks for everybody for coming. This was really good to get the event going. This is our second event this Monday Dan organized a terrific event at City Hall on January 1st And I think we are seeing an upsurge and activism In the Burlington area. Let's keep it going