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Keep Space for Peace Week - Oct. 1 - 8, 2006 –
International Days of Protest to Stop the Militarization of Space

Space - A Global Commons to Benefit All -
NOT the U.S. Domain for Pre-Emptive Wars & Domination

U.S. war planners have been using “space assets” to fight wars. The use of space for waging war has grown from Kosovo and the first Gulf War to Afghanistan, and in Iraq it has been taken to a whole new level. In their own words: “Precision navigation, timely weather data, critical missile warning and infrared information, surveillance and reconnaissance, and tremendous weapons capabilities – all came from our on-orbit systems that provided warfighting capability in this war like no war ever before…space was not just an enabler but a key warfighting element of the total campaign.”[emphasis added] (Brig Gen Larry D. James. “Bringing Space to the Fight: The Senior Space Officer in Operation Iraqi Freedom” in High Frontier: The Journal for Space & Missile Professionals 1.4, 14-16 2005).

Bring the Troops Home from Iraq - End Pre-Emptive Wars and the Military Use of Space

Information about the Strategic Command’s technologies and plans is complex and full of cryptic acronyms, but it all boils down to U.S. plans for empire and domination of the planet by monopolizing the control of space. Surveillance satellites, radar, laser, nuclear and x-ray weapons are all in some stage of development. Space based nuclear power reactors are planned to power it all. Conventional, nuclear and new weapon systems are all part of the picture. Several corporations – Raytheon and Northrup Grumman among them – have pieces of the contracts pie. Many weapons and war systems are in hidden “black budgets” at the Pentagon. “What we know about is pretty bad; we should be very concerned about what we don’t know.” (Bruce Gagnon, Arsenal of Hypocrisy video, 2003).

Our Tax Dollars and Resources Could Go a Long Way to Invest in the Common Good – Instead of Being Drained and Polluted by Feeding War

These high tech systems and weapons come with a very high price tag. These billions are being stolen away from education, health, housing and positive solutions to world problems that would benefit the majority of us. The dismal government response to the Hurricane Katrina disaster exemplify where resources are NOT being allocated.

What We Can Do

Oppose the building of a perpetual war system, and the many weapons and war-making allocations. Support positive legislation like:

- HR 2420 – Space Preservation Act of 2005 introduced by Dennis Kucinich

- HR 373 – For Nuclear Non-Proliferation & Disarmament introduced by Lynn Woolsey

- Learn more: visit the Global Network site listed below for extensive information and resources.

Check http://www.justicewithpeace.org/ (link to calendar of events, page footer). Upcoming Keep Space for Peace Week activities will be posted soon.

Keep Space for Peace Week is sponsored by:

Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space http://www.space4peace.org

Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom http://www.wilpf.org

Boston area contact: wilpfmedia@verizon.net

SPEAKERS BUREAU

Please contact these people directly to negotiate speaking dates, travel expenses, etc. during the week of local actions.

They all have considerable expertise on the space issue.

SPEAKERS

* Robert Anderson (Political Science professor, Central New Mexico Community College, Albuquerque, N.M., co-founder of Stop the War Machine) www.stopthewarmachine.org (505) 858-0882 citizen@comcast.net

* Frida Berrigan (New America Foundation, New York City) (212) 431-5808 ext. 200 berrigan@newamerica.net

* Jackie Cabasso (Western States Legal Foundation, Oakland, CA) wslf@earthlink.net (510) 839-5877

* Helen Caldicott (President, Nuclear Policy Research Institute) (202) 822-9800 HCaldic@bigpond.com

* MacGregor Eddy (WILPF, Salinas, CA) (831) 206-5043 mindful@redshift.com

* Craig Eisendrath, Ph.D. (Senior Fellow Center for International Policy, Philadelphia, PA) (215) 413-1461 creisen@aol.com

* Stacey Fritz (No Nukes North, Alaska – She is currently living in Houston, Texas) info@nonukesnorth.net

* Bruce Gagnon (Global Network, Brunswick, ME) (207) 443-9502 globalnet@mindspring.com

* Joseph Gerson (Director of Programs for AFSC New England. Author of "Empire and the Bomb: How the US Uses Nuclear Weapons to Donminate the World." (617) 661-6130 JGerson@afsc.org

* Regina Hagen (INESAP, Darmstadt, Germany) regina.hagen@jugendstil.da.shuttle.de

* William Hartung (New America Foundation, New York City) (212) 431-5808 hartung@newamerica.net

* Dominique Lalanne (Abolition 2000, Paris, France) lalanne@lal.in2p3.fr

* Andy Lichterman (Western States Legal Foundation, Oakland, CA) (510) 839-5877 amlichterman@comcast.net. His blog can be read at http://disarmamentactivist.org

* Dr. Hannah Middleton (Australian Anti-Bases Campaign Coalition, Sydney) peace@mira.net www.anti-bases.org

* Geov Parrish (Author, activist, Seattle, WA) 206-547-4619 geovlp@earthlink.net

* Lindis Percy (Campaign for the Accountability of American Bases, Harrogate, England) percy@starbeck.eclipse.co.uk

* Sri Raman (Movement Against Nuclear Weapons, Chennai, India) sriraman_j@yahoo.com

* J. Narayana Rao, (All India Peace & Solidarity Organization, Nagpur, India) jnrao36@sify.com

* Richard Sanders (Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade, Ottawa, Canada) (613) 231-3076 overcoat@rogers.com http://coat.ncf.ca

* Alice Slater (Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, New York City) (646) 238-9000 aslater@rcn.com

* Bob Smith (Brandywine Peace Community, Swarthmore, PA) (610) 544-1818 brandywine@juno.com

* Steven Staples (Rideau Institute on International Affairs, Ottawa, Canada) operations@rideauinstitute.ca

* Mary Beth Sullivan (Global Network, Brunswick, ME) (207) 443-9502 mbsull@mindspring.com

* Bill Sulzman (Citizens for Peace in Space, Colorado Springs, CO) (719) 389-0644 bsulzman@juno.com

* Jan Tamas (No to Bases Initiative - Czech Republic) jan.tamas@humanisti.cz

* Dave Webb (Praxis Centre, Leeds Metropolitan University, and Yorkshire CND, England) dave@webbjeff.free-online.co.uk

* Don Whitmore (Seattle, WA) 3rdM@gte.net

* Loring Wirbel (Citizens for Peace in Space, Colorado Springs, CO) LWirbel@aol.com (719) 481-1316

ENTERTAINERS

These fine singers/songwriters have space songs and other good political music.

* Anne Feeney (Pittsburgh, PA) unionmaid@earthlink.net

* Holly Gwinn Graham (Olympia, WA) www.hollygwinngraham.com, (Speaks on these issues as well)

* Joel Landy (New York City) joellandy@yahoo.com (917) 279-3141

* Tom Neilson (Montague, MA) (413) 367-9742 tomneilsonmusic@hotmail.com

* Lynda Williams (Santa Rosa, CA) spinor64@hotmail.com (707) 542-2791