{"id":2855,"date":"2009-09-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-28T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/2009\/09\/keep-space-for-peace-week-events-planned-worldwide\/"},"modified":"2009-09-28T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-28T00:00:00","slug":"keep-space-for-peace-week-events-planned-worldwide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2009\/09\/keep-space-for-peace-week-events-planned-worldwide\/","title":{"rendered":"KEEP SPACE FOR PEACE WEEK &#8211; EVENTS PLANNED WORLDWIDE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>On October 3-10 a week of local protest events to <strong>Keep Space for Peace<\/strong> will be held worldwide. &nbsp;<br \/><\/em>&nbsp;<br \/>Each fall the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.space4peace.org\/\" >Global Network Against Weapons &amp; Nuclear Power in Space<\/a> organizes Keep Space for Peace Week: International Days of Protest to Stop the Militarization of Space.&nbsp; These events are intended to help educate the public about the need to prevent the arms race from moving into the heavens.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>According to Global Network Coordinator Bruce Gagnon, &ldquo;The space week protests represent the largest grassroots global expression against moving the arms race into space.&nbsp; This year we are highlighting the U.S. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) that are flown over Afghanistan and Pakistan by pilots sitting at computer terminals on bases back inside the US.&nbsp; This new high-tech satellite directed warfare is indeed death at a distance but the mounting civilian casualties reveals that the blood is still on our hands.&nbsp; We believe it is time to open our eyes and stop the military&rsquo;s use of space for war on Earth.&rdquo;<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>Dave Webb, the Vice-Chair of Great Britain&rsquo;s Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and also the chairperson of the Global Network, says, &ldquo;&ldquo;All of these operations, the remote control of robots and the integration with other war-fighting systems to provide a global reach of power and devastation, are all made possible through satellite communication technology. We are trying to remind everyone what kind of a destabilizing future these systems could create.&nbsp; We must not allow these technologies to go unchallenged. Indeed we must do all we can to stop the spread and rule of violence and destruction.&rdquo;<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>The October 3-10 actions are being co-sponsored by the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reachingcriticalwill.org\/\" >Women&rsquo;s International League for Peace &amp; Freedom, International Network for the Abolition of Foreign Military Bases<\/a>, and the World March for Peace &amp; Non-Violence.&nbsp; Protests are expected at city centers and key space related factories and military bases.&nbsp; Educational forums will be held and space videos would be shown throughout the week.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>To see the list of Space Week protest sites check <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.space4peace.org\" >www.space4peace.org<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Note to Editors &amp; Assignment Desks:&nbsp; Actual Pentagon Space Command plans for &quot;control and domination&quot; of space can seen by clicking: &nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gsinstitute.org\/gsi\/docs\/vision_2020.pdf\" ><br \/>http:\/\/www.gsinstitute.org\/gsi\/docs\/vision_2020.pdf<\/a> <br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>Use this link to view the 2009 Space Week poster:<br \/>&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.space4peace.org\/actions\/ksfpw09.htm\" ><br \/>http:\/\/www.space4peace.org\/actions\/ksfpw09.htm<\/a> <br \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Global Network Against Weapons &amp; Nuclear Power in Space<br \/>PO Box 652<br \/>Brunswick, Maine 04011&nbsp; (207) 443-9502 <br \/><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.space4peace.org\/\" ><br \/>http:\/\/www.space4peace.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>globalnet@mindspring.com<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/space4peace.blogspot.com\" >http:\/\/space4peace.blogspot.com<\/a> (Blog)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On October 3-10 a week of local protest events to Keep Space for Peace will be held worldwide. &nbsp;&nbsp;Each fall the Global Network Against Weapons &amp; Nuclear Power in Space organizes Keep Space for Peace Week: International Days of Protest to Stop the Militarization of Space.&nbsp; These events are intended to help educate the public [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary-archives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}