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January 7, 2006 The Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space has announced a demonstration at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on January 7 from 11:00 am to 1:00 pm. The protest will highlight opposition to NASA’s planned New Horizons launch that will carry 24 pounds of radioactive plutonium on board. |
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February 12-14, 2006 Join the Global Network (GN) and Albuquerque’s Stop the War Machine as we protest the 23rd Symposium on Space Nuclear Power and Propulsion–-as we have done for the past 13 years. This annual space nukes symposium is coordinated by the University of New Mexico’s Nuclear Engineering department, which is heavily involved in creating the nuclear rocket and other space nuclear power and space weapons projects. Home hospitality will be available for those coming to Albuquerque for the protest activities. Contact: Bob Anderson at (505) 858-0882. |
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March 18, 2006 11am - gather at UNM Bookstore, Central Ave - site of police riot three years ago 11.30 - march to Sen. Domenici & Rep. Heather Wilson's offices downtown End - with music & rally at Robinson Park, Central & 8th SW.
To endorse the march and rally contact: stopthewarmachine@comcast.net or at 505-268-9557 NO USE OF SPACE FOR WAR ON EARTH! |
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April 3-6, 2006 Each April the aerospace industry entity, Space Foundation, holds its annual international symposium to promote U.S. control of space. In 2005, in Colorado Springs over 6,000 military personnel and aerospace corporation reps attended. A career fair was also held and attracted 800 students from 46 states. Each year during this event, the Colorado Springs-based Citizens for Peace In Space (CPIS) holds protests outside the event. In 2006 the GN will join with CPIS to vigil daily at the Space Foundation conference. CPIS has offered to find home hospitality for those coming to Colorado Springs. For more info contact: Bill Sulzman at (719) 389-0644. |
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May 20, 2006 With:
Que Keju of the Marshall Islands, Medea Benjamin of Global Exchange and Bill Mitchell of Gold Star Families for Peace. At: the front gate of Vandenberg Air Force Base intersection of Lompoc-Casamilia Road and Highway One, six miles north of Lompoc. Meet: Ryon Park in Lompoc at 12:30 for orientation and to form See www.vpeaceldf.org for directions to Ryon Park or call MacGregor Eddy at 831 206 5043 Peace protesters are supposed to be able to park in the lot of Vandenberg Middle School across the street from the front gate, sometimes the MP's do not allow this. Vandenberg Air Force Base in Santa Barbara County, California is a global nerve center for coordinating surveillance, communications, global positioning and other data to
land, air and sea military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. In addition to coordinating the illegal war against Iraq, Vandenberg also violates international law by launching test ICBM and
"Star Wars" interceptor missiles that land at Kwajalein in the Marshall Islands. These tests have forced the removal of the Marshallese people from their islands. Over 1850 missile and
rocket launches have taken place at Vandenberg on what was once Chumash Indian land. These launches contaminate the surrounding area with perchlorate from rocket fuel.
Download flyer
(277KB PDF file) |
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May 28, 2006 11 am - A National Day of Action called by the Western Shoshone Defense Project, Nevada to stop the Divine Stake test. Impact tests were recently conducted at Sandia National Lab with the B-61 nuclear bomb for use as a bunker buster. There are 685 B-61s at Kirtland AFB and a new nuclear war-coordianting center has just been opened at the base. On June 2, 2006 the Bush administration is conducting a large test in Nevada called "Divine Strake" to simulate an attack on Iran with B-61 bombs, millions would die. The Shoshone people have called for May 28 as a day of resistance to this madness. Their land is being used for the June test against their will. President Eisenhower warned us in 1961 about the danger of a military industrial complex creating a permanent state of war for profit and empire. We need to close the war base in Albuquerque before their weapons of mass murder can be used for companies like Exxon, Mobile, Chevron, Shell to gain control of the Middle East oil fields. The military-inustrial complex started here; let's end it here! For more information and to help - contact Western Shoshoone Defense Project - www.wsdp.org - or in Ne Mexico StoptheWarMachine@Comcast.net 505-268-9557
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June 23-28, 2006 The Global Network (GN) invites you to attend the World Peace Forum on June 23 -28, 2006 in Vancouver, BC, Canada. The theme "Cities and Communities: Working Together to End War and Build a Peaceful, Just and Sustainable World" is intended to draw together activists from around the globe to plan a common future. The GN will be holding our annual meeting in conjunction with the Forum. We are also planning a special plenary called Weapons in Space: Should We Extend the Arms Race into the Heavens? on Sunday, June 25. The GN is also serving as the Space Weapons Working Group coordinator for the peace forum and will be scheduling an entire track of workshops on the nuclearization and weaponization of space. STAR WARS EVENTS AT VANCOUVER 1) Gallstones in the Belly of the Beast 2)
Weapons in Space: Should We Extend the Arms Race Into the Heavens? 3) Global Network Annual Membership Meeting & Dinner 4) No Means Yes: Canadian Complicity in the “Missile Defense” Weapons Development Program (See: 'No Means Yes: Exposing Canadian Complicity in the "Ballistic Missile Defense" Weapons Development
Program' videos:
part 1,
part 2,
part 3 and
part 4. 5) Space Weapons & Canada: Strategies for Citizen and Government Action 6) Star Wars Organizing: Activists Reports from Around the World 7)
The Space-Military-Industrial Complex: Connecting the Dots and Acting on the Picture (See: the video report "War from Space" on YouTube or video.google and "Speaking at the World Peace Forum 2006" - also: Bruce Gagnon's Trip Report) |
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July 8, 2006 THE National Security Agency HAS BEEN SPYING ON YOU, so it is time to demand an end to the lawbreaking by the Puzzle Palace. Join the Pledge of Resistance-Baltimore, Jonah House and
others on Sat., July 8 at 10 AM at Fort Meade, Maryland. At 10 AM there will be a march to the NSA at Fort Meade. Call Max at 410-323-7200 x31. Tom Mullian is a singer/songwriter and has been performing |
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September 29 - Otober 2, 2006
Purpose: To build a cohesive local and national anti-corporate movement and develop strategies for stopping the corporate “Merchants of Death.” When: Friday, Sept. 29- Oct. 2, 2006 RSVP to G. Simon Harak, WRL Anti-militarism Coordinator amc@warresisters.org - Phone: 212-228-0450 Please RSVP by August 15, 2006 (Housing for conference participants available) Join us the whole weekend and honor Gandhi’s Birthday, Oct. 2nd, with a nonviolent direct action at Alliant Techsystems (makers of depleted uranium weapons). Nonviolent Direct Action training provided and recommended. Downloads For more information: www.WarResisters.org/SMoD |
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October 1-8, 2006
The Bush Administration has now begun deployment of missile defense interceptors in Alaska and California. Next we expect Bush to give the green light to the Pentagon to begin deploying offensive weapons systems in space. For the past several years the GN’s Keep Space for Peace Week of local actions has taken this issue to classrooms, libraries, TV and radio programs, churches, military bases, aerospace corporation facilities, and the offices of political leaders. We encourage all concerned citizens to organize a local activity during space week in solidarity with groups all over the world. Working together we must expand our opposition to Bush’s dangerous, costly, and destabilizing nuclearization and weaponization of space. Keep Space for Peace Week will be co-sponsored by Women's Int'l League for Peace and Freedom. |
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October 10, 2006
Nebraskans for Peace will be demonstrating outside the Holland Performing Arts Center in Omaha Ne Tuesday evening October 10 from 4:30-6:30 p.m. before the "Opening Ceremony and Reception" begins, and the following morning, October 11 from 7:30-8:30 a.m., by the new Qwest Center in Omaha when Strategic Space and Defense 2006 conferees really get down to 'business.' For more info contact the NFP State Office |
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December 12-13, 2006 Faslane is the UK’s nuclear submarine base, and central to the government’s plans to build a new generation of nuclear weapons. It currently hosts 4 submarines carrying 58 Trident missiles and up to 200 warheads – each 8 times more powerful than the bomb that destroyed Hiroshima. Women from the Greenham Common peace camp started off the first three days of Faslane 365, a year long peaceful blockade of the naval base involving groups and organisations from Scotland, England, Wales and beyond. Since then different groups have been going along to show their protest and take action over a two day period. A particular session from December 12-13 (the anniversary of the US decision to withdraw from the Anti-Ballistic Treaty and deploy Missile Defence systems) has been set aside to focus on space issues as part of this year long protest – a Keep Space for Peace Block. You are invited and encouraged to take part - please gather from noon on December 12. Bring food to share, warm clothes, waterproofs, musical or other instruments... We will help organise workshops/discussions on:
Bring sleeping bags and tents and camp by the base or stay at a campsite, youth hostel or bed and breakfast nearby. Be ready to blockade the base on Tuesday and Wednesday. Come for one day or three – come to join in, take action or support. More Information For more information about December 12 – 13 contact: Yorkshire CND For updates and general information on Faslane 365, or to download leaflets and a resource pack:
http://www.faslane365.org |
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December 26-28, 2006
Come and help us expose, confront and convert our country's God-awful nuclear weapon's operational headquarters and its War in Space Command through this prayerful three day retreat and witness at Offutt AFB. This years retreat takes place in the basement of St John's Church on Creighton University campus at 2500 California Plaza, Omaha NE. It begins at 7:00 pm Tuesday, Dec. 26th with a Christmas Party and Social. On Wednesday morning Dec. 27th, we will drive to Offutt AFB for a brief prayer service and reading of St. Mathews Infant Narrative. Nonviolence training, community building, bible study and prayer will follow on Saturday. The Retreat will end with a Vigil and Line Crossing at Offutt AFB Thursday Dec. 28th. |
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