Drone Survivors Speak at Congressional Briefing Called by Rep. Grayson 10/29

[annm4peace]

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the 1st 50 seconds is silence.. the audio isn't that great but you can understand most of it.

It is too bad Cspan didn't see need to film this hearing.


Streamed live on Oct 29, 2013
Brave New Foundation and Rep. Alan Grayson's Congressional briefing on the drone crisis.

Rafiq ur Rahman -- a primary school teacher in Pakistan -- will appear at a briefing called by Representative Alan Grayson (FL-09), along with his children Nabila and Zubair. In October 2012, Nabila and Zubair were injured in the same drone strike that killed their grandmother -- Rafiq's mother - while she was tending crops in her garden. This landmark briefing marks the first opportunity for Congress to hear in-person accounts from drone strike survivors. Other testimonies will be given by Robert Greenwald and the family's lawyer Shahzad Akbar (via a representative from Reprieve UK) recounting the horror and immorality of civilian casualties in drone strikes.

Rafiq's story is one of several depicted in Robert Greenwald's upcoming documentary UNMANNED: America's Drone Wars. Sign up to see this daring, investigative film, available for FREE starting Oct. 30th for a limited time: http://www.AmericasDroneWars.com

[annm4peace]

1. please make a comment if your local news or national showed this hearing

and if you can please click the thumbs up on the youtube video so the powers that be can see how many watched this video.

[marasinghe]

3. reposting this:

Five - yes, exactly 5 - congress people, had the humanity to turn up at the hearing and listen to these kids talk about their Grandma's murder by the US Govt..

Published on Tuesday, October 29, 2013 by Common Dreams:

Congressional No-Show at 'Heart-Breaking' Drone Survivor Hearing

In "historic" briefing, Rehman family gives heartbreaking account of drone killing of 65-year-old grandmother... to five lawmakers

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/10/29-3

Thanks, Mr. Grayson; for trying to do the right thing.

And fuck the majority of your congressional colleagues.

[legcramp]

2. Not a word of it where I live

But thank God Alan Grayson has the guts to fly that drone right up the President's ass.

Unless of course Obama hasn't been briefed on the drone program.

[delrem]

4. Isn't this disgraceful, though. What could be more important than that? Golf?

[annm4peace]

5. There were other important hearings that day

i'm not saying they were more important.. but just that there other hearings that Reps needed to be at.
1 was Stand Your Ground and the other NSA.. but I would think the Congress members could have stopped by.

i'm am disappointed in our Progressive Caucus co-chair MN Rep Ellison because there is a large anti war, anti drone group of voters in his district.

[sabrina 1]

6. Thanks again. Alan Grayson for doing the job you were elected to do.

The immorality of these wars should be apparent by now even to the most hard hearted moron.

Over 165 beautiful, innocent children have been killed so far. Imagine that number of children dying by a strike from a foreign country here?

It is shameful for any American to remain silent about all the killing we've been responsible for since 9/11.

How do they sleep at night??

[DeSwiss]

7. When they're flying overhead.....

...that's when everyone'll start to care.

- K&R