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Keep Space for Peace Week
A gold rush into space is now underway. There are tens of thousands of mini-satellites expected to be launched in coming years, mostly for 5G which will have military application for greater surveillance and targeting. We can expect growing deterioration of the Earth’s ozone layer due to toxic rocket exhaust. More spaceports (often in environmentally sensitive areas) are being constructed to handle the glut in launches. Astronomers are angry as they witness the dark night sky covered in satellite trails. The privatization of space for profit puts the United Nations’ Moon and Outer Space Treaties in jeopardy. The Pentagon’s ‘Space...
Protest the Cornwall space launch
Saturday 29th October, Noon – 2pm: Protest outside Newquay Airport St Mawgan, Newquay TR8 4RQ Meet at West Car Park entrance. Public transport details here. Car parking costs £5 for 2 hours. The first space launch from UK soil will take place sometime during the first two week of November with a ‘launch window’, granted by the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) opening on October 29. While the launch is being presented as a step forward for the civil space industry – with Virgin’s commercial space ambitions being heavily promoted – the rocket will launch two military satellites (that we know...
Waihopi Spy Base Protest
Wensley Centre 3 Henry Street, Blenheim, Blenheim, New ZealandSince our last protest (2021) the look of the spy base has drastically changed, with the 2022 removal of the two giant domes and the satellite dishes they concealed. They were officially deemed obsolete.
But although the domes have gone, Waihopai is still a spy base, albeit a less conspicuous one, and the spying by the Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) goes on.
Keep Space for Peace Week – The Dangers of Crowded Orbits
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 endanger space activities and the use of satellites which so much technology relies on to function. The Global Network is involved in a legal action to pressure the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to follow the law and conduct environmental impact studies before approving the launching of satellites into space. In 1985-88 there were about 5000-6000 objects in orbit. Currently there are roughly 27,000 human-made objects in space Elon Musk’s Space X has launched...
No weapons in space vigil
Bath Iron Works Maine, United StatesNo weapons in space vigil at Bath Iron Works in Maine. Contact: globalnet@mindspring.com
Keep Space for Peace in Asheville
Asheville, North Carolina Meet at Pack Square and walk through city with signs and flyers
Keep Space for Peace at Menwith Hill
Menwith Hill NSA Menwith Hill, Nr Harrogate, North YorkshirePlease join us at the US spy base at Menwith Hill, near Harrogate, North Yorkshire, UK, to mark Keep Space 4 Peace.
‘No Radar’ Protest at DARC Exhibitions in Wales
If you can, join the PARC against DARC protests against the proposed U.S. Space Force Deeps Space Advanced Radar Capability (DARC) in Pembrokeshire, Wales. More information from the website - Pembrokeshire Against DARC Radar (parcagainstdarc.com)
Stop the Space Waste!
The annual Aerospace Summit is approaching fast, on the 23rd and 24th of September in Ōtautahi (Christchurch, New Zealand), and we need YOUR presence to shut it down! Boeing executive Kimberly Camrass is being paid to speak on 'Aerospace for good' at the conference- how on earth are the billions Boeing makes from bombing Palestinian family homes and hospitals, 'GOOD'?? We have to oppose this criminal industry! Book time off work or school, and let's work together to chase the American military warmongers out of our city! Sign the Stop The Space Waste petition, follow our instagram and Facebook for all the details and updates.
Keep Space for Peace Week October 5-12 2024
Each October the Global Network organizes Keep Space for Peace Week and asks folks around the world to help us concentrate public attention during that time on the dangerous and aggressive moves the US-NATO are making to nuclearize, militarize and weaponize space. We hope this October 5-12 you can find some way to help us in that goal to expand public consciousness about the absolute imperative to keep space for peace. A growing list of planned events can be seen here, get in touch with details of any event you are organising.
SHUT DOWN DRONE WARFARE
NO DRONES OVER GAZA, STOP THE GENOCIDE, GROUND THE DRONES! FALL WEEK OF RESISTANCE October 13-19, 2024 U.S. Drones are flying over Gaza to assist Israel with their ongoing horrific genocide Creech Killer Drone Base is the central command base for the illegal and immoral U.S. drone program. Just north of Las Vegas, US airmen fly Reaper drones over the desert of Nevada, practicing in remote warfare; Many hundreds of “drone workers” (airmen and civilians) commute daily from Las Vegas to sustain this insane program. We will hold daily vigils during commute hours to express zero tolerance to remote warfare and...
Protest the Militarization of Space
Holiday Inn By The Bay 88 Spring St, Portland, Maine, United StatesConcerned citizens to protest militarizing space at Maine Space Conference October 24 Mainers concerned about the environmental and security risks of building rocket launch sites on the Maine coast will be in Portland on Thursday, October 24 outside the Maine Space Conference from 11:00 a.m. until 1:00 p.m. Picketing outside the Holiday Inn by the Bay for the second consecutive year will bring attention to the risks and environmental harm of building rocket launch sites and other facilities for use by the U.S. Space Force, a branch of the Pentagon. Bruce Gagnon coordinator of the Global Network Against Weapons &...
