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There we were, sitting around a table under bright green grape leaves and infant grape clusters that protected us from the hot sun.  Unusually, the women outnumbered the men. However, even more unusual was that the first question came from a woman to me. “I am asking you because you are a woman,” she said. “Violence against women happens all over the world. How do you think that we can change that?” 

Mainstream media have finally begun to cover drone warfare as a feature of U.S. policy, due in part to Senator Rand Paul’s historic filibuster during the confirmation of CIA director John Brennan in March 2013.  The Upstate New York Coalition to Ground the Drones and End the Wars, however, has organized protests against Hancock National Air Guard Base near Syracuse, to raise awareness about Reaper drones, over the last three years.