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Upstate New York Peace Activist Spared Jail Time After Drone Protest In New York, a longtime peace activist has been sentenced to a one-year conditional discharge and ordered to pay a $1,000 fine for demonstrating outside the gates of New York’s Hancock Field Air National Guard Base, which is used to remotely pilot U.S. drone attacks. Mark Colville, who appeared on Democracy Now! Wednesday, was facing two years in prison for his role in the peaceful protest, but the judge decided not to send him to jail. Colville celebrated after the decision. Mark Colville: I’m a person of hope, and my hope is grounded in my fellow human beings, among whom is Judge Jokl. And I choose to think the best of him, which is that perhaps on some level his conscience was moved to do something, something in the way of rightness and fairness and justice in this case. More than 100 people have been arrested over the past five years as part of a nonviolent campaign against drone attacks organized by the Upstate Drone Coalition.
Posted on: Sun, 07 Dec 2014 15:25:59 +0000

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