The Colorado College
Non-violence Club hosted the Pinon Canyon Preservation Exhibition Thursday,
Friday and
Saturday, November 3,4,5, 2011.
Steve Wooten, Grady Grissom, Rebecca Goodwin and Stan White helped with
moving the trailer and contributed to the presentations at the college,
and Bill Sulzman, Steve Handen, Caley and Olivia, Mary Sprunger-Freis,
Pete Haney and many volunteers helped to staff the exhibition.
The video is Kathleen Callahan introducing the speakers for the Non- violence
Club and then Dr. Grady Grissom explaining the history of the fight
to save the land of 17,234 people in southeastern Colorado from the
10,800 square mile expansion of Fort Carson's PCMS live fire range,
taken by Eminent Domain in the 80s.
Then Doug Holdread explains the Pinon Canyon Preservation Exhibition
and paintings.
Published October 30, 2011:
I am a very old friend and admirer of Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta,
but fear that the Pentagon's budget report seems exaggerated and overblown.
Isn't this a good time to press again for the Pentagon to shut down once
and for all the plans for Pinon Canyon expansion and broader use? The
budget demands, requirements to replace and upgrade equipment, and need
to tend to the military's infrastructure, all argue that the Pentagon
should stop new expansion efforts.
Further, one of the basic rationales for Pinon Canon expansion and other
military expansionism in Southern Colorado seems to be "jobs, jobs, jobs,"
as if the purpose of our military is local economic development. We should
be investing ourselves: in upgrading our bridges highways and airports,
investing in basic science and working to rebuild our public education
system. These are the true and lasting building blocks of economic health.
Timothy E. Wirth
former U.S. senator
Washington, D.C.