Keep Space for Peace Week (Oct 5-12, 2024)
Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology
https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/10/omni-stop-us-militarization-of-space.html
(#1 December 13, 2006; #2 January 24, 2008; #3 October 4, 2008; #4 October 2-9, 2010; #5, October 1-8, 2011; #6, October 6-13, 2012; #7, March 28, 2020; #8, Sept. 20, 2021)
CONTENTS
· Bruce Gagnon. “Keep Space for Peace Week October 5-12, 2024.”
· Jeremy Kuzmarov. Futuristic Weapons: H. Bruce Franklin.“Ukraine. . .Testing Ground for Space-Based Weapons.”
· Caitlin Johnstone. UFO Narratives and “Race to Weaponize Space.”
· Stop US Militarization of Space #8
· Stop Militarization of Space #1-#7
TEXTS STOP US MILITARIZATION OF SPACE #9
Keep Space for Peace Week Oct 5-12, 2024
Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space <info@space4peace.org>
Save the date: Keep Space for Peace Week, October 5-12, 2024
International week of events to stop the militarization of space. Each October the Global Network organizes Keep Space for Peace Week to bring attention to the need to stop the ever advancing militarization and nuclearization of space.
In 1989 Apollo astronaut (and moon walker) Edgar Mitchell spoke at one of our protests at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida and said, ‘One war in space will be the one and only. So much space debris would be created that we would not be able to get a rocket off the planet Earth. We’d be entombed to the planet forever. It would be like a mine field not allowing any rocket to get thru the debris field just over our heads’.
Today all war on Earth is directed from orbiting military satellites.
For many years China and Russia have gone to the United Nations seeking to create a new treaty to ban all weapons in space. (Close the door to the barn before the horse gets out.) But the US and Israel have been blocking such treaty negotiations for more than 25 years. The US has long maintained, ‘There is no problem, there are no weapons in space.’ It was obvious that the US intended to develop ‘control and domination’ of space and didn’t want any treaty limitations.
Help us during October 5-12 to illuminate this issue for the public who are now massively paying for the militarization of space – what the aerospace industry brags is the ‘largest industrial project in human history’. Check our web site for articles, videos, T-shirts and past events during Keep Space for Peace Week. Click this link
Thank you.
Bruce K. Gagnon, GN Coordinator
PS Please let us know of any plans you develop during space week.
[Shortly after OMNI began, thanks to Mark Swaney, Bruce spent a full day with us, including an address at UAF. He has never given up his great mission to bring peace on earth and in space. –Dick]
‘Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.’ ~ Henry David Thoreau
Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space
P.O. Box 652, Brunswick, ME 04011 globalnet@mindspring.com (207) 844-8187
Space Week Actions List (October 5-12)
Actions list construction underway
Ethics in Technology: October 1 space issues Webinar with Bruce Gagnon at 6:00 pm PST vahid.razavi1@gmail.com
Vandenberg Space Force Base, California: October 2 Protest vigil at main gate where nuclear missiles and satellites are launched. 3:45-4:45 pm jdapel2@gmail.com
Bath Iron Works, Maine: October 5 Space week vigil at the General Dynamics Administration building on Washington St. 11:30-12:30. Navy Aegis destroyers are built at BIW that use space satellites to guide the missiles onboard these ships that have been attacking Yemen from the Red Sea. 207-763-4062 globalnet@mindspring.com
Andover, Massachusetts: October 6 space week vigil at intersection of Rt 28 and Rt 133, Noon till 1:00. brian@quirk.ws
Menwith Hill, England: October 8 Join the special Keep Space for Peace Menwith Hill Accountability Campaign protest at Menwith Hill in Yorkshire to highlight the United States surveillance and missile defence activity that makes us a significant military target. 6:00-7.30 pm dave-webb@outlook.com
Whitehall (opposite Downing Street) London, England: October 9 Ministry of Defence. As part of the global Keep Space for Peace Week and especially in solidarity with PARC Not DARC who are campaigning to stop the Space Radar in Pembrokeshire, join Space Watch UK, CND and others outside the Ministry of Defence main building in Whitehall to call for a halt to the militarisation of space. Join us! Bring placards and banners! More details: 07960 811437. Noon-1:00 pm
St Louis Peace Economy Project: October 10 Space militarization and demilitarization Webinar with Bruce Gagnon at 3:00 pm EST peaceeconomyproject@gmail.com
Andover, Massachusetts: October 10 space week vigil at Raytheon weapons production facility entrance, 2:30 PM till 3:30. brian@quirk.ws
White House, Washington DC: October 11 Keep Space for Peace signs at the Dorothy Day Catholic Worker White House peace vigil at noon-1:00 pm. artlaffin@hotmail.com
USAF (RAF) Croughton, England: October 12 Noon-3pm Croughton is one of the largest international intelligence hubs. This major U.S. communication and intelligence base supports many US military sites 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. oxfordcnd@phonecoop.coop
Global Network Space Issues Webinar: Sunday, Oct 13 at 3:00 pm EST. Speakers include Dave Webb (UK), Tamara Lorincz (Canada), Sung-Hee Choi (South Korea) and Peter Burt (UK) globalnet@mindspring.com
Vilnius, Lithuania: October 13 More info TBA
Creech Killer Drone Base, near Las Vegas: October 13-19 Shut Down Drone Warfare, Full week of Resistance www.ShutDownDroneWarfare.org
National space issues grassroots organizing meeting, Daejeon, South Korea: October 18-20 armha2013@gmail.com
Visakhapatnam, India: Space issues presentation in local schools. Date TBA prabhakar.jalluri@gmail.com
· Please let us know ASAP what your local community is organizing for space week.
· Help spread our space issues videos from our YouTube library
https://www.youtube.com/@GNspace4peace
‘Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.’
Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space
P.O. Box 652, Brunswick, ME 04011 globalnet@mindspring.com
CovertAction Magazine covers GN & space issues:
“Ukraine Providing an Important Testing Ground For Space-Based Weapons.” “Weapons Straight Out of a Science Fiction Novel Have Not Been Able to Turn the Tide on the Battlefield” By Jeremy Kuzmarov (Managing Editor of CovertAction Magazine) . 8-25-23.
In his 1988 book War Stars: The Superweapon in the American Imagination, H. Bruce Franklin traces a deep-rooted cultural belief in the magic of futuristic weapon systems that would enable the U.S. to defeat any foreign adversary.
[Source: amazon.com]
Franklin dates the infatuation to the era of the revolutionary war with the development of the combat submarine by Robert H. Fulton to pulverize the British Navy. He in turn shows a direct line through World War I and World War II and the development of air power and the atomic bomb, through the Vietnam War where sophisticated U.S. war machines could not defeat the guerrilla warfare tactics of the Vietcong.
Franklin could easily include a new chapter on Ukraine, whose summer counteroffensive has fizzled despite the country’s function as a testing ground for new American weapon systems. These include space-based satellites and sensors that have been used by the Ukrainians to track Russian troop movements and assist in navigation, mapping and electronic warfare, and positioning systems that guide precision weapons and drones.
A webinar in mid-July hosted by the War Industry Resistance Network placed the U.S. strategy in Ukraine in the context of a broader attempt by the U.S. to militarize space and use it to destroy its leading geopolitical rivals—Russia and China.
The first speaker, Dave Webb, a retired engineering and peace studies professor from England, emphasized that the 1991 Operation Desert Storm set the groundwork for Ukraine as the first space war in which the U.S. showed off new satellite and precision guided missiles that wound up devastating Iraq. [Webb is convenor of the Global Network board.]
In 1997, the U.S. Space Command outlined its goal of obtaining full-spectrum military dominance over land, sea, air and space by the year 2020—which achieved partial fulfillment with the Trump administration’s creation in 2019 of a new Space Force as a branch of the U.S. military.
The second speaker at the webinar, Bruce Gagnon, coordinator of the Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space, pointed out that, for the last quarter century, Russia has presented its demand for a new cooperative space treaty before the United Nations but has been blocked by the U.S., Israel and a few of their allies. The Russians have stated unequivocally, as have the Chinese, that they do not want to devote their countries’ resources to a destructive and fruitless arms race in space, though the U.S. believes it can be master in space and has been taken over totally by the military-industrial complex.
When the creation of the new Space Force came up for a vote in 2019, the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives supported it, though it had wanted to call it Space Corps.
Read the entire article here
“Crowded orbits = growing danger.”
The Global Network is involved in a legal action against the FCC (Federal Communications Commission) to pressure them to follow the law and do environmental impact studies before the launching of satellites into space. Lower Earth orbit (LEO) is becoming dangerously crowded and NASA scientists fear growing space debris and likely cascading collisions in orbit. This, called the Kessler Syndrome, would turn the Earth dark as most technology today uses satellites to function.
Caitlin A. Johnstone. “Funny How the UFO Narrative Coincides with the Race to Weaponize Space.” Mronline.org (7-29-23).
Originally published: Caitlin A Johnstone Blog on July 28, 2023 (more by Caitlin A Johnstone Blog) |
Culture, Movements, State Repression, StrategyAmericas, United StatesNewswireHouse Oversight, UFO.
These stories about the space militarization race aren’t getting the attention the much more entertaining UFO stories are getting, but it seems likely that those who are responsible for moving the war machinery around are paying a lot more attention to the former than the latter. If Wednesday’s House Oversight subcommittee hearing on UFOs had happened ten years ago instead of today, it would have shaken the world. Imagine someone from 2013 hearing congressional testimonies about “routine” military pilot encounters with giant flying tic tacs, floating orbs, 300-foot red squares, and cubes in clear spheres zipping around in ways that surpass all known earthly technology by leaps and bounds, or about secret government possession of otherworldly aircraft they’re trying to reverse engineer and the dead bodies of their non-human pilots, or about the possibility that these creatures are not merely extraterrestrial but extra-dimensional. Their jaws would have hit the floor. . . .MORE
OMNI STAR WARS PROTEST TO STOP US MILITARIZATION OF SPACE, ANTHOLOGY #8, September 20, 2021. Keep Space for Peace Week (Oct 2-9, 2021).
http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2021/09/star-wars-protest-to-stop-us.html
(#1 December 13, 2006; #2 January 24, 2008; #3 October 4, 2008; #4 October 2-9, 2010; #5, October 1-8, 2011; #6, October 6-13, 2012; #7, March 28, 2020; #8, Sept. 20, 2021)
[This is a little book against the militarization of space. You might start with Karl Grossman on the Space Treaty of 1967 and Bruce Gagnon on Trump’s Space Force. ]
CONTENTS #8 Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space via sendinblue.com
Space Alert! 2021 Contents of Latest Number, edited by Bruce Gagnon
Super-Power Conflict over Bases on Moon, Colonies on Mars, J.Narayana Rao, In Memoriam
Rocket Lab in NZ
Gold Rush Into Space
Karl Grossman. Space Treaty of 1967 or WWIII
UN Outer Space Treaty
Space Law Treaties and Principles
Five Treaties
Purpose of Star Trek: US Space Dominance
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Hypersonic Missiles: Need for Skeptical Journalists
Bruce Gagnon, Trump’s Space Force
Book Review: Publisher’s Praise and Critical Review
Neil Neil deGrasse Tyson and Avis Lang. ACCESSORY TO WAR: THE UNSPOKEN ALLIANCE BETWEEN ASTROPHYSICS AND THE MILITARY. 2018.
Branko Marcetic, Trump’s Space Force
Back to 1990s: Star Wars: Irrational, Unfeasible, Dangerous
The Leap Manifesto a Way to Peace and Justice
#1 (December 2006)
http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2006/
#2 (January 2008)
http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2008/01/militarization-of-space-usa-and-canada.html
#3 (October 2008)
http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2008/10/keep-space-for-peace-week-omni.html
#4 (October 2010)
http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2010/10/keep-space-for-peace-week.html
#5 (October 2011)
http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2011/10/omni-newsletter-5-on-us-militarization_1.html
#6 (October 2012)
http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2012/10/keep-space-for-peace-week-newsletter-6.html
#7 (March 2020)
https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2020/05/omni-star-wars-newsletter-7-march-28.html
#8 (September 2021)
http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2021/09/star-wars-protest-to-stop-us.html