Keeping Space for Peace

Indian Government says NO to Global Network's
Planned International Conference
October 9-12th 2010


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 Press Release
and Times of India article

See also: India developing space weapons
and Boeing eyes Asia for its defence sales

Keep Space for Peace
 International Week of Protest to Stop the Militarization of Space

October 2-9 2010

The U.S. is encircling Russia and China with “missile defense” systems that are key elements in the Pentagon’s “first strike” program. The U.S. is deploying Navy Aegis destroyers, with SM-3 interceptors on-board, in Japan, South Korea and Australia. Ground-based PAC-3 (Patriot) interceptors are being put in Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan.
Obama is also deploying PAC-3 missiles in Poland, 35 miles from Russia’s Kaliningrad border, and SM-3 missiles at new U.S. bases in Bulgaria and Romania. Aegis destroyers will also be deployed in the Black Sea further surrounding Russia.
All of these missile deployments will be directed by U.S. space technology from bases around the globe. U.S. “missile offense” makes it likely that a new arms race with Russia and China will move into space.

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This new space issues film linked above, now making its way around the world at major film festivals, features several of our key Global Network leaders.

Created by French-Canadian filmmaker Denis Delestrac, Pax Americana is now seeking a U.S. distribution deal.

See the trailer or the website
On Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/PAX-AMERICANA/102424539828?v=info
Please help spread word about it.
 

Missile Offense Funding Grows in Congress

On May 12, the House Armed Services Strategic Forces Subcommittee voted to increase "missile defense" spending. The subcommittee, which is in charge of oversight for missile defense programs, added $361.6 million to the FY 2011 missile defense budget. This additional funding, combined with President Obama's budget request of $9.9 billion, would bring total spending on missile defense for 2011 to $10.3 billion. Below is a list of the programs that will receive additional funding:

  • Airborne Laser: $50 million
  • PAC-3: $133.6 million
  • AN/TPY-2: $65 million
  • Aegis SM-3s: $50 million
  • U.S. Israeli Program: $88 million

Further amendments increasing missile offense funding are likely when the full Armed Services Committee meets for mark-up of the 2011 National Defense Authorization Act on May 19.

This funding comes as social progress in the U.S. is being defunded by the Democrats who run the government.

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About the Protest at the ICBM Minuteman III launch:
Vandenburg AFB January 31, 2010

Details of the Protest here
More details: Missile-defense test scheduled for VAFB
 Also: Dangerous, Destabilizing and Provocative;
 What happened at the protest?
Eight arrested - one injured;
Peaceful Protesters Roughed Up, Arrested by Obama’s Pentagon;
Missile Mishaps;
What Americans really have to fear

Updates on the protestors: here
Follow the Vandenberg Protest blog: here
 

Call for Signatures Protesting Navy Base Construction that will Destroy Coral Reefs In South Korea


GN Co-ordinator Bruce Gagnon has compiled a list of organizations and concerned individuals from around the world who wish to voice their protest with the US and South Korean governments about the plan to build a Navy base that threatens to destroy the coral reefs, fishing, and tangerine groves that are integral to the people's way of life.
Please join the protest.

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Final list of signatures
Letter to South Korean Embassy

Jeju Island Village Attacked by Police and Bulldozers
January 18 2010

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Video goes into the "cockpit" of drone operations in Afghanistan controlled from Nevada consoles, and shows what it's like to drive to work in the morning, kill some "bad guys" with "precise" weapons that minimize collateral damage, then drive home at night to talk with your kids about their homework over your dinner.
http://www.inthesetimes.com/community/video/5075/remote-controlled_war/

More on drones
 


The United Nations Association of the United States
of America (UNA-USA)2009 National Convention Adopts Resolution on PAROS
Washington, D.C. June 12-14

Seven UNA-USA Chapters and/or Divisions co-sponsored a resolution addressing StratCom's mission of launching first-strike nuclear and conventional attacks, the command's ongoing pursuit of new generations of nuclear weapons, and its central role in militarily dominating outer space.

Report on Resolution
Curbing STRATCOM

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