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2004 STAR WARS ACTIONS
Plans for U.S. “full spectrum dominance” via space technology are rapidly moving ahead. Please help us by spreading the word about
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January 16-18, 2004 The public face of New Zealand's role as an American ally is the NZ military presence in both Iraq and Afghanistan. But New Zealand's most significant contribution to those wars, and any other American wars, is the Waihopai spy base. Join the pubic meeting and protest in Blenheim and at the spy base. |
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January 24, 2004
Download flyer (416KB PDDF file) Bus Tour Brings Eyewitnesses from Iraq and Palestine Date 12/30/03 On Tuesday January 24 at 2 pm the Wheels of Justice Tour will join the Vandenberg Action Coalition at the peace vigil held the first Tuesday of every month at the front gate
on the Vandenberg Air Force Base The gate is at the intersection of Highway one and the Lompoc-Casamila Road, six miles north of Lompoc...on a full-size, brightly-decorated school bus, the
tour The tour travels on a converted school bus that doubles as a mobile billboard and peace center. In the past three years the bus has traveled more than fifty thousand miles to more than four hundred locations all over the United States. Having seen and lived with war, terror and occupation in Iraq and Palestine, participants in the Wheels of Justice offer first-hand experience irrespective of partisan politics. Building upon the growing domestic and International movement against the war and occupation in both Iraq and Palestine, the Wheels of Justice Tour provides education, outreach, nonviolence/action training, active resistance, and community-building all across the United States. For details on the tour, visit www.justicewheels.org The tour is sponsored by Voices in the Wilderness (www.nonviolence.org/vitw/), the Palestine MacGregor Eddy Vandenberg Peace Legal Defense Fund |
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February 9, 2004
Download flyer (415KB JPG file) The nuclear rocket Project Prometheus is the brainchild of scientists attending this annual conference. Each year representatives from the
DoD, DoE, NASA, nuclear academia, and the aerospace industry come together to promote the expansion of nuclear power into space. Join the Global Network as we again shed light on these
dangerous plans, and protest the funding of continued research and development on nuclear reactors for space-based weapons, the nuclear rocket, and nuclear power for NASA’s space
missions. NASA and the Pentagon have signed new agreements stating every space mission will be “dual use,” meaning each NASA project will carry military and civilian payloads.
NASA’s nuclear space shots are a Trojan Horse for the Pentagon. |
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February 24, 2004 Wisconsin Assembly Bill 555, if passed, will encourage more Nuclear Power in Wisconsin AND increase the likelihood that the Wolf River Batholith in north central Wisconsin will become a high level nuclear waste repository. AB 555 changes the 20 year old statutes which require that two conditions be met before a new nuclear power plant can be built in the Wisconsin. The two conditions are:
AB 555 would remove these clear, sensible guidelines which protect the public good. AB 555 is part of a big push for more nuclear power plants in Wisconsin and nationwide. It is important to tell your Wisconsin Legislators your position on AB 555! The time to express your opinion is now. Call, write, email and/or attend the hearing. The fate of AB 555 will have implications for many generations to come and should not be made without your input. Wisconsin Nuclear Watchdog - call Judy: (608) 250 9240 or Claire: (609) 251 7020 |
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March 18, 2004 Co-hosted by British American Security Information Council (BASIC) and Bradford Department of Peace Studies. BASIC and Bradford Department of Peace Studies are co-hosting a Missile Defence Conference - 'Threats, Responses and Projections' - on the University Campus on Thursday 18 March 2004. This is an important imitative given that both Fylingdales radar station and Menwith Hill listening station, both located in the region, will play a significant role in US plans for missile defence. We will bring together knowledgeable people in the field who will both make presentations and participate in Q&A sessions afterwards. We are also planning to host a 'Question Time' open meeting in the evening in Bradford town centre. There will be no registration fee but we ask that people register in advance by sending names and representative organisations or groups to the Conference Organiser, Nigel Chamberlain (nchamberlain@basicint.org). |
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March 19, 2004 Non-violent blockade and demonstration at the world's biggest satellite spy base. Organised by Yorkshire Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and supported by CND, Trident Ploughshares and CAAB. See Also: Report from Blockade |
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March 20, 2004
See: http://www.marchfortruth.org |
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March 26-28, 2004 This Inquiry intends to bring together, to share what they have learned with the world, independent researchers, questioners, seekers of evidence, authors, film-makers: all those who desire and work to discover the truth about September 11, 2001. Oral presentations and films will take place in the historic Herbst Theatre in the War Memorial and Veterans Building. A nominal fee
will cover plenary sessions. Additionally, meeting rooms will be available for registered participants who are researchers/activists to confer together; their findings will be brought before
the public on Sunday afternoon, at the conclusion of the Inquiry. Toronto, Canada - Phase 2 - June 2004 |
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April 23-25, 2004
2004 marks the 12th anniversary of the Global Network and each year we hold an international event in a different part of the world. This
year we will meet in Maine, the home of Bath Ironworks (BIW) where the Aegis Destroyer is built. The Aegis is outfitted with interceptor missiles as part of the Theatre Missile Defense
(TMD) system that will be “forward deployed” in the Middle East and used to surround China, which will of course build more nuclear weapons in response. Representatives from peace
groups worldwide will be in attendance to share their work to stop Star Wars. Included in the events will be a protest at BIW. This event is being cosponsored by Maine Veterans for Peace, Peace Action Maine, Pax Christi Maine, Maine WILPF, Witness for Peace Maine and Traprock Peace Center. Now available: conference brochure -
Directions to Woodfords Church Also: Letter to be Delivered to BIW on First Day of International Space Conference on 23rd April PORTLAND ACCOMMODATIONS
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May 15-16, 2004
May 15 , 2004 Located 6 miles north of Lompoc in Santa Barbara county, California. Loring Wirbel author of STAR WARS: US Tools of Space Supremacy live music with Dan Fortson the frontline singer. Night of May 15 there will be a peace camp at the farm of Bud and Dotty Boothe in Los Olivios. Music and discussion. Directions:
http://www.vpeaceldf.org check on May 14th for last minute info May 16 To reserve a space at the conference call MacGregor Eddy at 831 754 5554 or Denis Apel at 805 343 6322. Special guests at the conference Loring Wirbel, Peter Lumsdaine, Carlo Urner Reilly and others. Hosted by:
More details from:
MacGregor Eddy
mindful@redshift.com Sponsored by: |
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May 25-30, 2004 The International Citizens’ Inquiry into 9/11 – Phase 2, is scheduled for May 25-30, 2004 at the
Ukrainian Cultural Center (83 Christie, just north of the Christie subway at Bloor) and the University of Toronto’s famed Convocation Hall.
Phase 1 of the Inquiry was held in San Francisco March
26-28, 2004 (see video at
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September 25 - October 2, 2004
The Bush Administration (after unilaterally abandoning the1972 ABM Treaty) promises to deploy missile defense interceptors in Alaska before the next election. Ten interceptors (that have yet to be proven effective) will be put into the ground at Ft. Greely, Alaska to “protect” the continental U.S. from attack. This year the Global Network’s Keep Space for Peace Week coincides with this deployment effort. For the past several years our Keep Space for Peace Week of local actions has taken this issue into classrooms, libraries, TV and radio programs, churches, military bases, aerospace corporation facilities, and the offices of political leaders. We encourage you to organize a local activity during the week in solidarity with groups all over the world. Working together we must create opposition to Bush’s dangerous and destabilizing Star Wars deployments. |
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Contact: trevor.hache@sympatico.ca 789-0604 from the University of Ottawa's NDP or Danika Brisson tusenslepipi@yahoo.ca from Global Peace Coalition.
November 30, 2004
Tuesday 30th - Mock trial & march to the US Consulate office at 5pm at Victoria Park right downtown on the corner of Spring Garden Rd and South Park St (near Dairy Queen & the Lord Nelson Hotel) Wednesday 1st Dec - Possible mass convergence on the Grand Parade square on the corner of Argyle St. and Duke St. from 10am-12pm. Plans might change - check Halifax Peace Coalition website:
http://hfxpeace.chebucto.org/ |
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December 26-28, 2004 Offutt Air Force Base (AFB) has served as the home of our nation’s nuclear weapons targeting and command headquarters for over 55 years. Formerly the
Strategic Air Command, now expanded to the Strategic Command (STRATCOM). While there are no nuclear weapons stationed at Offutt AFB, STRATCOM is the operational command center for all land,
air and sea strategic nuclear weapons systems. No nuclear missile silos can be activated, no Trident Submarine can set sail or B52 Bombers fly without STRATCOM'S approval. STRATCOM at Offutt
AFB holds the whole world under a threat of global nuclear annihilation every day, every hour, every minute of the year.
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