October 2014 Keep Space for Peace Week Action Reports/Photos |
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and details from original call for action are here. |
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1 October 2014 Great Start to Keep Space for Peace Week Beale AFB |
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![]() This photo came from Global Network board member MacGregor Eddy in California. It was from a protest at Beale AFB in that state (the base that Bruce Gagnon lived at when he graduated from high school in 1970. His step-father worked at the base on the cameras for the SR-71 'Blackbird' spy plane.)
MacGregor wrote:
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2 October 2014 "Things are even happening in Sydney" Sydney, Australia |
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This photo came from Nick Deane in Australia. His short note read "Things are even happening in Sydney, Australia." It's a joy to think about how ideas can spread all around the globe. Can't keep the truth down for long. |
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4 October 2014 Wales and the World in Drones Protests RAF Croughton |
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This photo shows the rally in front of RAF Croughton in England. (The 'RAF' in front of Croughton is a bit of an illusion. The Pentagon runs Croughton but in order to keep the peasants on the farm they have to give way to local sensibilities about Britain being in charge. They are not.) The US will be spending £200m to turn Croughton into one of it's largest international intelligence hubs. This major Pentagon communication and intelligence base supports many other US military bases in Europe and is involved in world-wide war operations. These include space communications, data links, military drone information, bomber guidance, missile defence, diplomatic communications, and command and control war fighting functions. A connected base is at Barford St John, Banbury, Oxfordshire.
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4 October 2014 Drone Protest Hilo, Hawai'i |
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![]() Protest against drones in front of Home Depot on island of Hilo, Hawai'i. Protest in front of Home Depot - a great example of 'go where the people are'. The big box corporate stores are a huge part of the problem when it comes to corporate domination of our society. The oligarchy is making it harder on all of us to be able to have true dialogue with the masses. They fear honest discussion and friendships and respect for one another. But a real democratic culture does not best serve corporate capitalism and must be taken down. Corporate power uber alles. Always exciting to know that good folks are out bringing to message to others. It looks like they did a good job of it. |
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4 October 2014 Wales and the World in Drones Protests |
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![]() On October 4th groups of Welsh (UK) peace campaigners met on Poppit Sands in
Pembrokeshire and in The Hayes, Cardiff to mark the first Global Action Day
Against the Use of Drones for Surveillance and Killing.
Israeli El-Bit/French Thales designed Watchkeeper Drones, are being developed
and tested for spying, surveillance and target acquisition over mid-Wales. The
unmanned planes fly from ParcAberporth in Ceredigion, over north
Pembrokeshire, Carmarthenshire and to the military training ranges on Mynydd
Epynt in Powys. Welsh taxpayers also fund the development of armed drones
being operated in the east of England.
CND Cymru Vice Chair Ray Davies later reported:
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4-11 October 2014 A Modest Request Jeju Island, South Korea |
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![]() In Gangjeong village ad vigil was held opposing drones - see the translated "Keep Space for Peace Week" above. The village has been a leader in connecting the dots and helping to show others what true solidarity means. The Jeju Island campaign against the Navy base that the US will use in its "pivot" to surround China has been doing great outreach to other campaigns throughout the Asia-Pacific and even with activists from Afghanistan to Italy. |
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5 October 2014 Vigil at Bath Iron Works Maine |
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Fifteen folks held a midday vigil yesterday at Bath Iron Works
in Maine where destroyers are made for the Navy and are being outfitted with
'missile offense' systems. These war ships are being deployed by the Pentagon
to the coastal regions near China and Russia. |
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5,6 October 2014 Space for Peace and Not for War Nagpur India |
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October 6th
Students, Lecturers and Professors and other public figures (including GN Board member Tamara Lorincz) attended. Among the issues discussed were: The causes of wars; the role of Imperialism and NATO in waging wars; the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty; the Destruction of Hiroshima & Nagasaki by nuclear weapons; the Prevention of an Arms Race in Outer Space; Vision for 2020; the UN Space Treaty; the UN Moon Treaty, Non-Aligned Movement, UN and World Peace, Disarmament & Development, Global Military Expenditure and Human Development, Millennium Development Goals etc.
Global Network board member Tamara Lorincz went to Nagpur,
India on behalf of our organization to speak at a Keep Space for Peace Week
conference organized by another one of our board members J. Narayana Rao.
Tamara is from Halifax, Nova Scotia and is living in Yorkshire, England for a
year doing a peace studies fellowship.
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7 October 2012 Protest at Raytheon Tucson, Arizona |
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![]() Activists from Tucson, Arizona vigiled outside of Raytheon where the kinetic "hit-to-kill" warheads are built for the Pentagon's misnamed "missile defense" system.
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7 October 2012 Protest at Menwith Hill, England |
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From the CAAB facebook page: Some of the people who turned out last night for Keep Space for Peace demonstration at NSA/NRO Menwith Hill near Harrogate North Yorkshire UK. We stood in a circle in the car park of the base - these scene previously of very difficult persistence to uphold the right to protest. We had to stay behind the notorious 'yellow line' and I was arrested many times for not doing as I was told to do by the police. Persistence does eventually pay off. No problems last night and Mike Finlinson (Sergeant Ministry of Defence police) ably policing the demonstration and making sure the right to protest was upheld and each car coming out of the base stopped while we stood in front with an upside down US flag which said "DANGEROUS MOVES - STOP BOMBING".
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11 October 2014 Demonstrate against Missile Defence RAF Fylingdales, England |
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![]() A small group of us enjoyed the sun at Fylingdales Early Warning/ Missile Defence Radar Station on the North York Moors on Saturday, as part of the Keep Space for Peace Week.
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12 October 2012 Montrose Peace Vigil California |
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![]() PEACE VIGIL-ING and holding signs (and a place) to "Keep Space for Peace"
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