Our Directors

 

 Robert Anderson (New Mexico): teaches economics and political science at a local community college.  He served in the U.S. Air Force (like Bruce Gagnon) and saw combat during the 1967-68 Tet Offensive in Vietnam.  Later, he helped form the Vietnam Veterans Against the War.  He traveled to Wounded Knee, S.D. in 1973 to support the indigenous struggles for sovereignty.  In 2006 he was arrested and banned from the University of New Mexico for pointing out it was wrong for the university to be supporting the Reliable Replacement Warhead (RRW) without public comment.  He is now co-director of Stop the War Machine which has organized major demonstrations opposing Star Wars and the Iraqi war. Bob and his wife Jeanne Pahls help the GN organize our annual February protest at the space industry's nuclear power symposium in Albuquerque. Bob is currently focusing on the advanced air borne laser weapons work going on in his home town. - citizen@comcast.net
Stacey Fritz (Alaska): lives in Fairbanks, Alaska and is the Coordinator of No Nukes North, an Alaskan & Circumpolar Coalition. In addition to local environmental issues of testing and construction of the NMD system in Alaska, she became concerned with the long-range plans of the U.S. military to use ³missile defense² as the first step towards complete weaponization and domination of space - info@nonukesnorth.net
 
Bruce Gagnon (Maine): serves as Secretary/Coordinator of the GN. He has been working on space issues for the past 25 years and helped create the GN in 1992. His book, called "Come Together Right Now: Organizing Stories from a Fading Empire", was republished in 2008. For 15 years he coordinated the Florida Coalition for Peace & Justice. He was trained as an organizer by the United Farmworkers Union and is also a member of Veterans for Peace - globalnet@mindspring.com
 
Regina Hagen (Germany): works as the Coordinator of INESAP (Int¹l Network of Engineers & Scientists Against Proliferation) and is a member of the Darmstadter Friedensforum peace group in Germany. She does extensive writing and speaking on space issues and works hard to promote the German section of the GN. Regina was a key leader in the Cancel Cassini Campaign - regina.hagen@jugendstil.da.shuttle.de
Helen John (England): was a founding member of the Greenham Common women¹s peace camp in the United Kingdom during the 1980s. In 1993 she helped to establish a Greenham-style protest at the U.S. spy base called Menwith Hill opposing Star Wars. Helen ran against Tony Blair in the last UK elections - helenmenwith@yahoo.co.uk
 
Dr. Michio Kaku (New York): holds the Henry Semat Professorship in Theoretical Physics at the Graduate Center of the CUNY. He has written many books including "Hyperspace," "Visions" and "Physics of the Impossible." Michio hosts a live science radio talk show on 90 commercial radio stations called "Science Fantastic" - see more at www.mkaku.org -
mkaku@aol.com
 

Tamara Lorincz (Canada): is a member of the Halifax Peace Coalition and the Nova Scotia Voice of Women for Peace. Her professional position is the Executive Director of the Nova Scotia Environmental Network. She is currently on the national board of Ecojustice Canada and has helped to establish the East Coast Environmental Law Association. In 2003, Tamara graduated with a combined MBA/LLB (Masters of Business and Law) degree from Dalhousie University. Tamara is also a part-time researcher in the area of Aboriginal Law and has helped teach Business Ethics and Natural Resource Management at Dalhousie University. Tamara is very active in her community working with various organizations on sustainability, social justice, fair trade, women and children's, and peace campaigns. She is a member of Oxfam, the Ecology Action Centre, the Sierra Club of Canada - Atlantic Chapter and Equal Voice. She is married to Ben, a software developer, and they have two little boys: Sam and Will - tlorincz@dal.ca
 
Dr. Hannah Middleton (Australia): represents the Australian Anti-Bases Campaign Coalition, a national organization that heads the campaign against the 30 U.S. military facilities on Australian soil. She is Director of the Blue Paper Project which lobbies on issues of Australian military spending, and Executive Officer of the Sydney Peace Foundation at Sydney University. Hannah has been active for over 40 years and now lives in Sydney - peace@mira.net
 
Agneta Norberg (Sweden): is vice chair of the Swedish Peace Council, a member of the steering Committee of the International Peace Bureau where issues related to NATO, nuclear issues and space are her most important tasks. For the moment trying to raise awareness of the dangers of letting US/NATO into Sweden. Doing a lot of travelling and talking, sometimes interrupted by singing. Highlights the installations serving US space plans the Nordic area. Playing with grandchildren as much as possible, playing the accordion to relax.  People who have been important for my understanding of the world: Jackie Cabasso, Joseph Gerson, Bruce Gagnon and Phyllis Bennis - agneta.norberg@spray.se
 
J. Sri Raman (Chennai, India): Sri, a freelance journalist, was a writer with the daily Indian Express when India carried out five nuclear weapon tests in May 1998. With the help of friends, he founded the Journalists Against Nuclear Weapons (JANW). The JANW is now one of the over 30 organizations to come together in an umbrella structure called the Movement Against Nuclear Weapons (MANW), with Sri as the Convener. An affiliate of the Global Network since 2001, MANW represents scientists, workers, writers, women, youth and students among others. Sri has a new book called Flashpoint: How the U.S., India & Pakistan Brought the World to the Brink of Nuclear War - sriraman_j@yahoo.com
 
J Narayana Rao (Nagpur, India): belongs to a village near Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh.  In 1958 he went to work for the Indian Railways and joined the Railway Trade Union Movement.  He was arrested in 1973 and 1974 for Trade Union activities. While in Railway Service and in the Railway Trade Union movement he was attracted to the peace movement and joined the All India Peace & Solidarity Organization (AIPSO) in 1982.  AIPSO is an Indian affiliate of the World Peace Council.  At present he is the General Secretary of AIPSO of the Maharashtra State Council. Rao's zeal to work against nuclear weapons, war, and to support the struggles of the developing countries against imperialist domination led him to believe that unless women and youth are brought into the peace movement there will not be a real movement in India. With this idea he has taken the initiative in establish the National Association of Indian Women for Peace and Development and Indian Youth for Peace and Development. Both these organizations are slowly gaining ground.  Rao was also instrumental in establishing the Indian Doctors for Peace & Development in Maharashtra State. This Organization is the Indian affiliate of IPPNW.  He retired from Railway service in 1994 and after retirement established the Southeast Central Railway Pensioners Association and serves as General Secretary. On several occasions in recent years Rao has published, at his own expense, special publications promoting the work of the Global Network.  In 2006 Rao organized the five-city speaking tour for GN staffers in India - jnrao36@sify.com
Dr. Dave Webb (England): is the Convener of the GN board of directors. He is a university engineering professor who also teaches Peace and Conflict Resolution Studies and Director of the Praxis Centre (for the study of Information and Technology for Peace, Conflict Resolution and Human Rights) at Leeds Metropolitan University. He is the webmaster of the GN¹s website and at the 2001 GN international membership conference in Leeds, England, Dave was presented with the "Web Master of Space Award". Dave is a vice-chair of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) in the UK, convenor of the Yorkshire Region CND and a member of Headingley and Kirkstall CND - dave@space4peace.org
 

 

 Loring Wirbel (Colorado): is an activist, adventurer and dad in Monument, Colorado. He is a member of Citizens for Peace in Space and has been active in anti-militarism and civil liberties issues for more than 30 years. He is also a writer and editor and frequently speaks on space issues. Loring is author of the book "Star Wars: U.S. Tools of Space Supremacy" - lwirbel@aol.com
 
Lynda Williams (California): is a physicist and science entertainer who is devoted to nuclear disarmament and the proliferation of peace. She performs science cabarets and promotes scientific literacy as a means to motivate political empowerment, peace and social justice. Lynda lives and teaches in northern California and recently produced a CD with anti-Star Wars songs to benefit the GN. Lynda is a new mother - spinor64@hotmail.com
 
Advisors:
Dr. Helen Caldicott (Australia): has worked for 26 years to educate the public about the medical hazards of the nuclear age. In 1980, she resigned as instructor in pediatrics at Harvard Medical School to work full time on the prevention of nuclear war. She co-founded the Physicians for Social Responsibility and recently founded the Nuclear Policy Research Institute to create a public education campaign about the dangers of nuclear policies. Helen¹s latest book is called The New Nuclear Danger: George W. Bush¹s Military-Industrial Complex - HCaldic@bigpond.com
 
MacGregor Eddy (Califormia): MacGregor Eddy serves on the DISARM committee for WILPF. She has worked in peace movements for thirty-five years . She is the founder of the Vandenberg Peace Legal Defense Fund and frequently helps organize protests at Vandenberg AFB, a key Star Wars launch base. MacGregor is a registered nurse and worked in a United Farmworkers Union clinic in the 70¹s - macgregoreddy@gmail.com
 
Atsushi Fujioka (Japan): Atsushi is a professor of Economics at the Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto, Japan. He spoke on behalf of the GN at a recent World Social Forum. Atsushi also works to promote peace museums throughout the world. He has organized a Japanese speaking tour for Bruce Gagnon in the past - fujioka@ec.ritsumei.ac.jp
 
Karl Grossman (New York): Karl is a full professor of journalism at the State University of New York/College of Old Westbury on Long Island, N.Y.  Karl is a co-founder of the GN and regularly writes about plans to launch nuclear power into space. His most recent book is entitled Weapons in Space and he has produced several space videos - kgrossman@hamptons.com
 
Holly Gwinn Graham (Washington): Holly got a better perspective on America and its policies in the world during the six years she spent living and singing in England from 1968 to the end of 1973. Since that time, she has devoted her life to working on pressing issues of these times on planet earth, to higher consciousness, and to using the arts to educate about these issues with humor, wit, and intelligence. Holly is affiliated with The Olympia-Rafah Sister City Mural Project, The Rachel Corrie Foundation, Veterans for Peace, and The Fellowship of Reconciliation. She holds a Master in Teaching degree, is a teacher and working performer - dragonfly100@hotmail.com
 
Filip Ilkowski (Poland): Filip is a leading member of Stop the War Initiative in Poland - an organisation established in 2003 that organised many demonstrations, concerts and conferences connected to war in Iraq & Afghanistan and the planned instalation of a US Missile Defense interceptor rocket base in  Poland. Filip is also active in alternative-globalist movement and socialist politics. He is a lecturer in Warsaw University teaching modern history, political thought  and globalisation theories - filipbrick@interia.pl
 
Lindis Percy (England): was born in Yorkshire, UK and worked for 36 years in the National Health Service as a nurse, midwife and health visitor. For ten years she lived 30 minutes away from Greenham Common where U.S. Cruise Missiles were deployed. She became aware of the dangers of nuclear weapons and joined in the women¹s campaign. As Co-Coordinator of Campaign for the Accountability of American Bases (CAAB) she has focused on NSA Menwith Hill (Yorkshire) and US bases in general for many years. CAAB has worked since 1996 on the role of Menwith Hill and Fylingdales in the American Missile Defense System. In 2004 Lindis was presented with the GN¹s Peace in Space Award - mail@caabcorner.org.uk
 
Tim Rinne (Nebraska): Tim is the State Coordinator of Nebraskans for Peace, the oldest state-wide Peace & Justice organization in the United States. Since 9/11, he has observed firsthand the transformation of U.S. Strategic Command near Omaha from a Cold War relic charged with the ‘unthinkable’ mission of nuclear annihilation into the nerve center for offensively waging the ‘War on Terror’ and dominating outer space. In 2008 his organization hosted the very successful Global Network 16th annual space organizing conference in Omaha - walterinne@neb.rr.com
 
Makiko Sato (Japan): Makiko is a wife, mother, voluntary translator, pro-Article 9 citizen, living with growing anxieties towards nuclear power plants in Japan. She has been supporting children in Africa one by one through Foster Plan for 14 years. Gaza also remains another concern of hers - armful@oct-net.ne.jp
Wolfgang Schlupp-Hauck (Germany): Wolfgang is a social worker and freelance journalist living in Schwabisch Gmund, Germany. He is chairman of the Friedenswerkstatt Mutlangen. He has been active with the GN since the Cassini campaign and edits a German newsletter "FreiRaum" for a world without nuclear weapons an the peacefull use of space, that reports on the work of the GN.  He is one speaker of the German branch of Abolition 2000. Wolfgang coordinated an eight-city German speaking tour for Bruce Gagnon in 2001 - Wolfgang.Schlupp-Hauck@t-online.de
 
Alice Slater (New York): Alice is New York Director of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation. She is a co-founder of Abolition 2000 and convenes its Sustainable Energy Working Group. She serves on the Executive Committee of the Middle Powers Initiative which is working to influence the nuclear powers to take more rapid steps toward nuclear disarmament and on the Board of the Lawyers Committee for Nuclear Policy. She lives in New York City - aslater@rcn.com
Koji Sugihara (Japan): was born in 1965 and lives in Tokyo. He coordinates the No to Nukes & Missile Defense Campaign and frequently organizes protests at US military installations in Japan where these systems are based.  He continues to monitor, write, and speak out against the missile defense system and rapidly-emerging military-industrial complex in Japan - kojis@agate.plala.or.jp
 
Bill Sulzman (Colorado): serves as Director of the Colorado Springs based Citizens for Peace in Space (which has been in existence for the past 18 years.) CPIS does education, research, direct action, and outreach both locally and around the world. Bill was a co-founder of the GN - bsulzman@juno.com
 
Sung-Hee Choi (South Korea): is an artist/art teacher. Since 2000 she has worked on the topic of Di.Vi.Sion, a word play from the word, division in which she noticed the linguistic relationship between seeing and geopolitics, obsessed by the cause of the division of Korea. She translated two Global Network videos, ‘Arsenal of Hypocrisy’ and ‘A Space 4 Peace,’ into Korean. Sung-Hee was a member of the Korean organizing committee that hosted the GN's 17th annual space organizing conference in Seoul, Korea in April 2009. Sung-Hee was a recipient of the GN’s Peace in Space award in 2009 - armha5156@gmail.com
 
Jan Tamas (Czech Republic): is a humanist and a political activist in the Czech Republic focusing on nuclear disarmament and the conversion of military budgets into development projects. He has been active in the nonviolent Humanist movement since 1997. In 2005 he became the chairman of the Czech Humanist party. Since 2006 he has been the leader of activities that oppose the US plan to establish Missile Defense radar base in the Czech Republic. He has a Ph.D. in technical cybernetics and heads a small IT consultancy company. He is married and lives in Prague - jan.tamas@humanisti.cz
 
Carol Urner (Oregon): is U.S. Section National Program co-chair of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.  For several years she has promoted and coordinated WILPF events as co-sponsor of Keep Space for Peace Week. Carol lived and worked as a teacher and community organizer in developing countries for thirty-five years. She returned to the U.S. in 2001  convinced that rampant U.S. militarism is now the greatest threat to our planet and its people, completely incompatible with both human rights and democracy.  Her special emphasis is on promotion of UN disarmament treaties and international law as necessary alternatives to war - carol.disarm@gmail.com
 
Wooksik Cheong (South Korea): is one of the founding members and the representative of Peace Network, a non-governmental organization formed in 1999, working for peace and disarmament in the Northeast Asia and on the Korean Peninsula. As a peace activist, an independent researcher, and a journalist, He has organized many campaigns and conferences, written books and essays, and made speeches both in Korea and abroad. Wooksik was one of the people responsible for hosting and organizing the Global Network's very successful space organizing conference in Seoul in 2009 - wooksik@gmail.com
Hibiki Yamaguchi (Japan): was born at Nagasaki in 1976. Since the end of 1990s, he has been working on various security issues such as nuclear weapons, U.S. military bases, and the overseas deployment of Japanese troops. He is also a coordinator of People’s Plan Study Group (PPSG), an organisation which has presented critical and alternative points of view to society. hibikiy1976@yahoo.co.jp
 


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