By World BEYOND War, April 21, 2025
World BEYOND War is working in the United States with groups including Veterans For Peace and 350.org to organize protests of military air shows, which of course glorify militarism, waste huge amounts of money, do serious damage to the natural environment, and produce horrific noise pollution that can re-traumatize victims of actual wars.
You can find upcoming protests that have been planned and add your own on this event page.
Veterans For Peace (VFP) has been running the No Military Airshows (No MAS!) campaign for years to protest military air shows by the Navy (Blue Angels) and Air Force (Thunderbirds) for glorifying militarism and spewing pollution. 350.org’s U.S. team joined the campaign and is encouraging 350.org supporters to work with local VFP chapters, WBW chapters, and anyone else to protest military air shows across the United States.
Here are reports on U.S. air show protests in 2024.
World BEYOND War has been organizing protests of the Toronto Air Show together with allies in Canada for years.
This can be done anywhere in the world that has disgusting displays of deadly weapons in the air — or on the ground.
Here’s a video from January discussing U.S. air show protest plans with Taylor Smith-Hams, U.S. Senior Organizer with 350.org; and Gary Butterfield, Treasurer with San Diego Veterans For Peace:
How Do You Do It?
Here’s a two-page PDF from VFP on how to find and protest an air show.
It starts with this:
Find out the date, time, and location of the air show you want to protest. Check the Navy Blue Angels 2025 schedule and the Air Force Thunderbirds 2025 schedule.
One other war weapons celebration to plan to protest is any Trump weapons parade in Washington. We stopped that grotesque proposal several years ago. Now Trump wants it June 14 (for his birthday) instead of November 11. Be prepared to shut it down.
