By Murray Horton, Secretary/Organiser, Anti-Bases Campaign, Christchurch, New Zealand, 18 April 2021 Rocket Lab started life as a small New Zealand company but is now much bigger and has become the local subsidiary of a US company, with its owners including arms industry behemoths such as Lockheed Martin. It specialises
By Bruce Gagnon, Published in 'Organizing Notes', 15 February 2021 The US began launching space probes with nuclear power in the early 1960's. One of these military satellites powered with a nuclear reactor fell back to Earth in April of 1964. It was called SNAP 9-A and was launched aboard
By Leonard David, Published in 'Inside Outer Space' - 5 February, 2021 A new report suggests that because the US military edge over prospective opponents is eroding, the United States now needs every advantage it can get. Inflicting surprise on our adversaries is one tool for regaining strategic advantage. Mark
By Morgane Solignac, Published in Surf - 31 January, 2021 It might have been their first 'post-Trump' protest, but the message remained the same. About 40 people from around New Zealand descended on the Waihopai Valley Spy Base on Saturday for their annual demonstration. Protest organiser Murray Horton summed up
By Bruce Gagnon, May 09, 2020 Due to the virus pandemic our annual Global Network meeting (scheduled for Ottawa in May along with many other groups in a coalition conference) was cancelled. Thus we have needed to bring together our board members via Internet and did so last night.Twenty of
On April 17, 2020, The GN and Yorkshire CND joined forces to organise a webinar on: War in Space: Weaponizing the ‘Final Frontier’ and Building a Gloabl Citizen Movement to Stop it! The webinar brought together key activists from the US and the UK to discuss the latest news and views
By Bruce Gagnon, November 13, 2019 Ukraine coming apart at the seams While in Moscow two weeks ago I was invited to meet with Larisa Shesler, the Chairperson of the Union of Immigrants & Political Prisoners from Ukraine. Larisa is from Ukraine and had to escape for her life in
