Activists hope base-adjacent peace parks can teach about militarization

Evidence

Enzo Ciscato was among those skeptical of the park. It couldn’t be a site “where you go to relax,” he said. Watching the base’s construction and knowing it was causing “irreversible” damage had made him “feel sick.” At best, Ciscato said, he hoped the Peace Park could become a center for learning about militarization and the harms of war, a place where people go to transform anger about the base into something positive for the community. — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 940

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Parks exist through active defense and embody resistance to extraction — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the…, 609; Base opposition movements pursue diverse aims beyond merely removing U.S. bases — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 947; Transect walks in teacher education can build solidarity against oppressive forces — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed:…, 216 (+2 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Parks exist through active defense and embody resistance to extraction — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the…, 609; Base opposition movements pursue diverse aims beyond merely removing U.S. bases — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 947; Transect walks in teacher education can build solidarity against oppressive forces — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed:…, 216 (+2 more)