<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "> <div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; line-height: 19px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal 'Helvetica Neue'; min-height: 15px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 19px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal 'Helvetica Neue'; min-height: 15px; "><br></div> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="padding: 21.0px 0.0px 21.0px 0.0px"> <tbody> <tr> <td valign="top" style="width: 197.0px; margin: 0.5px 0.5px 0.5px 0.5px; padding: 0.0px 21.0px 0.0px 21.0px"><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px; line-height: 19.0px"><font face="Helvetica Neue" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Helvetica Neue"><b>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE</b><br> September 3, 2010<br> 2:44 PM</font></p> </td> <td valign="top" style="width: 317.0px; margin: 0.5px 0.5px 0.5px 0.5px; padding: 0.0px 21.0px 0.0px 21.0px"><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px; line-height: 19.0px"><font face="Helvetica Neue" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Helvetica Neue"><b>CONTACT: </b><a href="http://www.vcnv.org/"><b>Voices for Creative Nonviolence</b></a><b> </b><br> Jerica Arents: 262-366-3785 (cell) <br> Jim Haber 415-828-2506(cell)</font></p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; line-height: 24px; "><font face="Helvetica Neue" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica Neue"><b>“Creech 14” Activists on Trial in Las Vegas for Protesting Drone Warfare at Creech AFB</b></font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px; line-height: 19.0px"><font face="Helvetica Neue" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Helvetica Neue">LAS VEGAS - September 3 - On Tuesday, <b>September 14, 2010</b>, members of the Creech 14, along with their legal advisors and supporters will hold a rally at <b>Lewis and 3</b></font><font face="Helvetica Neue" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Helvetica Neue"><b>rd</b></font><font face="Helvetica Neue" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Helvetica Neue"><b> Street, at 7:30 a.m</b>. and then proceed to their trial which begins at 8:30 a.m. in the Regional Justice Center at 200 Lewis Avenue. Charged with criminal trespass for entering the Creech AFB on April 9, 2009, the activists will argue that, under international law, they are obliged to oppose illegal U.S. usage of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (drones) to attack people in Afghanistan. They also plan to show the court that by entering Creech AFB they were enacting their first amendment right to assemble peaceably for redress of grievance. </font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px; line-height: 19.0px"><font face="Helvetica Neue" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Helvetica Neue">One of the first issues before the court will be their request to include former U.S. Attorney Ramsey Clark, Legal Director of the Center for Constitutional Rights Bill Quigley and Colonel Ann Wright, a former U.S. diplomat posted in Afghanistan as expert witnesses. Clark will demonstrate that "usage of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles based at Creech Air Force Base to kill ‘high value targets' constitutes extrajudicial executions and fails to afford all the judicial guarantees which are recognized as indispensable by civilized peoples."</font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px; line-height: 19.0px"><font face="Helvetica Neue" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Helvetica Neue">A <b>panel</b> featuring these <b>expert witnesses</b> is open to the public at <b>7:00 p.m. on September 13, at the University of Nevada Boyd School of Law, Thomas & Mack Moot Court Facility.</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px; line-height: 19.0px"><font face="Helvetica Neue" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Helvetica Neue">Those arrested included John Dear, S.J.; Dennis DuVall; Renee Espeland; Judy Homanich; Kathy Kelly; Fr. Steve Kelly; Mariah Klusmire; Brad Lyttle; Libby Pappalardo; Megan Rice, SHCJ; Brian Terrell; Eve Tetaz; Fr. Louie Vitale; and Fr. Jerry Zawada.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px; line-height: 19.0px"><font face="Helvetica Neue" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Helvetica Neue">The group will assemble for <b>trial preparation and reflection</b>, each morning, from <b>September 10 - 13, outside the entrance to Creech AFB</b>, in Indian Springs, Nevada. The morning gatherings will begin at <b>6:30 to 8 a.m.</b> <b>Vigils</b> will resume from <b>3:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m</b>. </font></p><p align="center" style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; line-height: 19.0px"><font face="Helvetica Neue" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Helvetica Neue">###</font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px; line-height: 19.0px"><font face="Helvetica Neue" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Helvetica Neue">Voices for Creative Nonviolence has deep, long-standing roots in active nonviolent resistance to U.S. war-making. Begun in the summer of 2005, Voices draws upon the experiences of those who challenged the brutal economic sanctions imposed by the U.S. and U.N. against the Iraqi people between 1990 and 2003.</font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 19px; "><font face="Helvetica Neue" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Helvetica Neue">Voices for Creative Nonviolence Links: <a href="http://www.vcnv.org/"><b>Homepage</b></a></font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 26.0px 0.0px; line-height: 19.0px; font: 13.0px Helvetica Neue; color: #cccccc; background-color: #cccccc; min-height: 15.0px"><br></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px; line-height: 19.0px"><font face="Helvetica Neue" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Helvetica Neue">Article printed from <b>www.CommonDreams.org</b></font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 21px; "><font face="Helvetica Neue" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica Neue">URL to article: <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2010/09/03-8"><b>http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2010/09/03-8</b></a></font></div></div></body></html>