Linking Militarized Space & Climate Crisis - Latest news from US & Europe
2021-10-03 13:00 - 14:30 (America/New_York)
Speakers: Stuart Parkinson (UK), Regina Hagen (Germany), Dieter Engels (German astronomer), Bruce Gagnon (Maine).
Time of event is 1:00 pm (New York) or 6:00 pm (London).
Zoom webinar link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88348424885?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting ID: 883 4842 4885
Passcode: [REDACTED]

Linking Militarized Space & Climate Crisis – Latest news from Indo-Pacific
2021-10-09 07:00 - 20:30 (America/New_York)
Speakers: Dave Webb (UK), Aruna Kammila (India), Kevin Clements (New Zealand), Koohan Paik-Mander (Hawaii), Bruce Gagnon (Maine).
Time of event is 7:00 am (New York) or 12:00 noon (London)
Zoom webinar link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86192029046?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting ID: 861 9202 9046
Passcode: [REDACTED]

The Digitization of Warfare
2021-10-16 13:30 - 15:00 (Europe/Paris)
A workshop at the 2021 World Peace Congress in Barcelona.
Introduced by Dave Webb with speakers:
Bruce Gagnon, coordinator of the Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space, to speak on the militarization of space and hypersonic weapons;
Joaquin Rodriguez, from Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, and member of the International Committee for Robot Arms Control (ICRAC);
Anne-Marie Buzatu, Vice President and Chief Operations Officer, ICT4Peace Foundation.
Congress details: https://www.ipb2021.barcelona/celona/

U.S. Militarism, Space Tech, and the Climate Crisis – The Role of Demilitarization in Climate Justice
2021-11-07 20:00 - 21:30 UTC | Webinar
This panel will identify the intersections of militarism, space tech, and climate change – and how these can be challenged.
Contributors: Lisa Savage – Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space, Koohan Paik-Mander – Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space, Adrienne Kinne – Veterans for Peace, David Collins – Veterans for Peace UK, Ashik Siddique – National Priorities Project at the Institute for Policy Studies
Register here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/peoples-summit-for-climate-justice-tickets-182897339867

Master of Space or Master of Disaster?
2021-11-08 19:00 (America/New_York)
Pentagon control and domination of space
With Bruce Gagnon from Global Network (also VFP member) – sponsored by Boston-area Veterans For Peace Smedley Butler chapter.
Begins at 7:00 pm EST.
Click to join webinar here

The deadly connections between space militarization and the climate crisis
2021-11-12 16:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York)
A UNAC sponsored webinar in conjuction with the Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space.
Speakers include:
Dave Webb (UK) – Board chair of the Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space and current chair of UK’s Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND)
Koohan Paik-Mander – a Hawaii-based journalist and media educator. She is a board member of the Global Network and the CODEPINK working group “China is Not Our Enemy.” She formerly served as campaign director of the Asia-Pacific program at the International Forum on Globalization.
Bruce Gagnon -Coordinator of the Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space.
Register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_hCHqBwYsT3-oLXPhsiNIGw

Impacts from Privatization of space: Environmental, Conflicts over celestial claims, war
2021-11-14 13:30 - 15:00 (America/New_York)
ICSS Marxist Library (San Francisco Bay area) is sponsoring this webinar with Bruce Gagnon from the Global Network as speaker.
This talk will include the plans by the nuclear industry to establish nuclear rockets to Mars and nuclear-powered mining colonies on the planetary bodies. Included will be a review of US attempts to destroy the United Nations Outer Space and Moon Treaties as Obama in 2015 signed a new law giving US corporations the ‘right’ to make land claims for mining the sky in violation of those treaties. This will result in moving the war system into space as other nations will not allow the US to act as the ‘Master of Space’.
Begins at 1:30 pm EST or 10:30 am PST
Link not yet available

Nuclear Weapons in Outer Space
2021-12-11 10:30 - 12:00 (America/New_York)
Manhattan Project for a Nuclear Free World is hosting an event on “Nuclear Weapons in Outer Space.”
Featuring Bruce Gagnon, the Coordinator of the Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space.
Register in advance for this meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMrc-CurjIuH9yhcDZwcGoFjmHsePClwQF8
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

Nuclear Industry plans for space
2021-12-11 10:30 - 12:00 (America/New_York)
Manhattan Project for a Nuclear Free World is hosting an event featuring Bruce Gagnon of the Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space.
10:30 am Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Register in advance for this meeting here
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
Nuke Mars?
Elon Musk wants to explode nuclear bombs over Mars to change the climate in order to ‘terraform’ the dusty red planet – to make it green like the Earth so we could move civilization there. Dangerous? Nuts?

Space Tourism Conference: Legal Dimensions
2022-01-29 09:30 - 16:35 (Asia/Kolkata)
Presented by The Centre for Aviation and Space Laws,
WBNUJS, Kolkata
With:
Bruce Gagnon; Dave Webb; Karl Grossman; Sandeepa Bhat; G.S. Sachdeva; Jennifer A. Brobst; Martha Mejia-Kaiser; Melissa de Zwart and Ram S. Jakhu
Download conference brochure here: https://caslnujs.files.wordpress.com/2021/12/casl-space-tourism-conference-brochure-1.pdf
Join the conference here: https://meet.google.com/mfv-hinz-gkt

GN Space Webinar: Dangers of WW III & Space War - Reports from around the world
2022-10-08 14:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York)
Speakers:
* Dr. Dave Webb (UK) Overview of current space warfare system
* Agneta Norberg (Sweden) Sweden-a platform for US war on Russia
* Koohan Mander Paik (Hawaii) Clash of Paradigms: Pacific Peoples vs. Pentagon Robots
* Subrata Ghoshroy (Boston) From ANZUS to Quad, US policy to contain China
* Tamara Lorincz (Canada) With the Militarization of Space by NATO and NORAD, What Are the Possibilities for Peace in Space?
* Bruce Gagnon (Maine) Moderator
Speakers to be followed by audience Comments, Questions & Answers
All are invited
Join Zoom Meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81209766910?pwd=[REDACTED]

Space Maneuvers: The Future Perplexities
2022-10-14 - 2022-10-16
The main objective of this Conference is to utilise this platform to discuss the contemporary issues and challenges in outer space pertinent to warfares with an analysis based on legal, political, economic as well as the scientific aspect in order to ensure peace and security in the international sphere.

Protest the Cornwall space launch
2022-10-29 12:00 - 14:00 UTC
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 about) alongside commercial ones: Prometheus-2 and Coordinated Ionospheric Reconstruction CubeSat Experiment (CIRCE).
Prometheus-2 is a CubeSat intended as a test platform for monitoring radio signals including Global Positioning System (GPS), conducting sophisticated imaging, and paving the way for a more connected space-based communication system. It was built in collaboration with Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL), In-Space Missions, and Airbus Defence and Space, with DSTL owning the satellite.
CIRCE is a joint mission between DSTL and the US Naval Research Laboratory. This satellite, we are told, “seeks to advance space weather measurement and modelling capabilities. It comprises two CubeSats that will orbit in near-polar low-Earth orbit.”

Waihopi Spy Base Protest
2023-02-18 10:00 - 15:00 UTC | Wensley Centre, 3 Henry Street, Blenheim, Blenheim, 7240, New Zealand
THE CHANGING FACE OF SPYING

This will be a participatory discussion (as opposed to simply listening to experts), with discussion leaders (they will be announced once confirmed).

A simple lunch will be provided. If you’re coming to the meeting, please RSVP to abc@chch.planet.org.nz for catering purposes

After that finishes, we will go out to the spy base, Waihopai Valley Road, for a protest. The protest time will be settled at the Blenheim meeting.

If you want to go to just the protest but not the meeting, text Anti-Bases Campaign’s Lynda Boyd 0274 797789 on the day and she will supply the details.

Since 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

Our campaign has always been to call for the closure of the base.

We started the campaign in 1988, when Waihopai was an empty paddock yet to be built on.

The spying goes on, so ABC’s campaign goes on.

Global Network 31st annual conference via Zoom: Latest developments on war via space
2023-07-15
9:00am – 11:00am (NY time)
2:00pm – 4:00pm (UK)
3:00pm – 5:00pm (Central European)
8:30pm – 10:30pm (New Delhi)
10:00pm – 12:00pm (Tokyo)
11:00pm – 1:00am (Sydney)
Speakers:
• Bruce Gagnon serves as Coordinator of the Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space (GN). He lives in Brunswick, Maine. Panel discussion moderator
• Tamara Lorincz is a PhD candidate in Global Governance at the Balsillie School for International Affairs at Wilfrid Laurier University in Canada. She’s a member of the Canadian Voice of Women for Peace and serves on the board of the GN. Subject: Censorship Industrial Complex – How NATO, national intelligence services and universities coordinate and weaponize information
• Ray McGovern was an Army infantry/intelligence officer and served as a CIA analyst for 27 years, from the administration of John F. Kennedy to that of George H. W. Bush. Ray’s duties included chairing National Intelligence Estimates and preparing the President’s Daily Brief. He lives in North Carolina. Subject: US Missile Bases in Poland & Romania – ‘Cuban Missile Crisis in Reverse’
• Juyeon Rhee has been a member of New York-based Nodutdol for Korean Community Development since 2000. She is also a board member at Korea Policy Institute, and also a steering committee member of Tongil Peace Foundation. She holds multiple memberships with overseas Korean organizations supporting peace and reunification work. Subject: US-NATO expansion into the Asia-Pacific
• Lisa Savage is a retired educator, organizer, and past candidate for the U.S. Senate in 2020. She lives in Solon, Maine and blogs at https://went2thebridge.substack.com Subject: Declining Empire Chases Fading Dream Of Full Spectrum Dominance
• Christian Sorensen is a New England-based researcher and independent journalist in the US mainly focused on the corporations profiting from war. An Air Force veteran, he is the author of the book Understanding the War Industry. He serves on the advisory board of the GN. Subject: How corporations form the backbone of space militarization?
• Professor Em. Dave Webb is the Convener of the GN board of directors. He is a retired university engineering professor who switched to Peace and Conflict Studies. He was chair of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) in the UK and is chair of the Yorkshire Region CND and a patron of the UK group Scientists for Global Responsibility. Subject: The drive to militarise & weaponise space

Registration required – register here.

Scotland Says Keep Space for Peace
2023-09-19 19:00 - 20:30 UTC
Over the past decade, both the US and UK governments have designated space as a key focus as military operations increasingly rely on space-based assets for command and control, surveillance, targeting, missile warning and secure communications with forces deployed overseas.
In 2019 the Ministry of Defence (MoD) declared that space should be seen as “a war fighting domain” and over the past two years we have seen the setting up of UK Space Command, the publication of a UK Defence Space Strategy outlining how the MoD will “protect the UK’s national interests in space” and the announcement of a portfolio of new military programmes to develop space-based military assets. Incredibly, both the US and UK are also exploring the use of nuclear propulsion for their space systems.
The UK is now in the process of developing a number of UK spaceports – including in Shetland, the Western Isles and Sutherland – from where we will see both commercial and military space launches. We are entering an era of military space expansion by the UK which will inevitably lead to environmental harm and risk of instability and conflict.
Join Scottish CND and Space Watch UK to examine how new Scottish spaceports are at the heart of UK government plans to militarise space and what we can do to challenge it.
We will follow up this online event with an in-person protest outside Scottish Parliament on Tuesday 3rd October at Noon.
Speakers:
• Dr Jill Stuart is an academic based at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She is an expert in the politics, ethics and law of outer space exploration and exploitation. She is a frequent presence in the global media on the issue and regularly gives lectures around the world.
• Dave Webb is former Chair of CND, Convenor of the Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space and co-author of the new report ‘Heavens Above: Examining the UK’s Militarisation of Space.
• George Gunn grew up in the far north of Scotland and now lives in Thurso. He is a poet and has written over fifty productions for stage and radio and has produced several series for BBC Radio Scotland and Radio 4. He has a regular column ‘From the Province of the Cat’ in Bella Caledonia.
• Timothy Parker a recent graduate of the University of Reading, researched the development of UK spaceports and the implications of AI for the UK’s nuclear weapons programme as part of an internship for Drone Wars UK.
• Tor Justad is Chair of Highlands Against Nuclear Transport (HANT). He believes in the words of Margaret Mead: “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.”
Chair:
• Lynn Jamieson is an academic and Chair of Scottish CND.
More details and registration

Keep Space for Peace Week - The Dangers of Crowded Orbits
2023-10-07 - 2023-10-14
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 12,000 satellites and various companies are now planning some 71,000 more. The US is moving quickly to grab as many remaining LEO parking spaces as possible, thereby preventing other nations from deploying satellites.
Could the FCC be ignoring the law for monitoring environmental impacts because Congress and the Pentagon want to remove all impediments to US military domination of LEO?
The emblem of the Space Force, Semper Supra, Latin for always above, shows

Keep Space for Peace Philippine Learning Session
2023-10-07 10:00 - 17:00 (Asia/Krasnoyarsk)
with Bruce Gagnon

No weapons in space vigil
2023-10-07 11:30 (America/New_York) | Bath Iron Works, Maine, United States
No weapons in space vigil at Bath Iron Works in Maine.
Contact: globalnet@mindspring.com

Rally at Croughton USAF base
2023-10-07 12:00 - 15:00 UTC | USAF Croughton, RAF Croughton, Croughton, Northamptonshire, United Kingdom
Military Nerve Centre of the US War Machine in the UK
Electronic surveillance and satellite communication spy base
Saturday October 7th, 12 to 3pm (UK time)
Speakers from 1pm:
TOM UNTERRAINER – Chair of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
JOHN GITTINGS – former Foreign Affairs editor, ‘The Guardian’
PETER BURT – Drone Wars UK
LINDIS PERCY – activist and founder of the Campaign for the Accountability of American Bases
We need to make this top-secret base more visible and answerable to the British people. ALready it has been key to satellite direction of wars of resources in the Middle East, Africa and now Europe. The US’s own publication ‘Vision for 2020’ stated the aim of US Space Command as the total domination of Space and its resources.
This rally is part of KEEP SPACE FOR PEACE WEEK.

Keep Space for Peace in Asheville
2023-10-07 16:30 - 17:30 (America/New_York)
Asheville, North Carolina
Meet at Pack Square and walk through city with signs and flyers

Keep Space for Peace at Menwith Hill
2023-10-10 18:00 - 19:30 UTC | Menwith Hill, NSA Menwith Hill, Nr Harrogate, North Yorkshire, HG3 2RF
Please join us at the US spy base at Menwith Hill, near Harrogate, North Yorkshire, UK, to mark Keep Space 4 Peace.

Crowded space: why the increasing militarisation of space could risk nuclear war
2023-10-12 19:00 - 20:00 UTC | Webinar
The increasing militarisation of space is contributing to a wider problem: it’s becoming dangerously crowded. Currently there are 27,000 human-made objects floating in space, and there are plans for this number to increase sharply. Billions of pounds are being spent by multiple countries – including the UK – on militarising space. This includes satellites, ground-based stations and new technologies such as armed drones, controlled through satellites. Not surprisingly, a crowded space has major implications for security, including increasing the risk of nuclear war. Find out more in this webinar.
Chaired by Kate Hudson (General Secretary, CND) with speakers: Mélusine Lebert, Dave Webb and Bruce Gagnon + Q&A
More details: here

Resource Mining in Outer Space: Artemis Accords and Beyond
2023-10-14
A GLOBAL CONFERENCE ON ‘RESOURCE MINING IN OUTER SPACE: ARTEMIS ACCORDS AND BEYOND’
Jointly hosted by The Center for Air and Space Law, University of Mississippi, USA
In association with The Centre for Aviation and Space Laws, National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata, India
and The Center for Research in Air and Space Law, Maharashtra National Law University, Mumbai, India
We look forward to meeting you and value your contribution to the ongoing success of this annual conference. The purpose of the Conference is to bring together scholars from India and abroad to interact, share
ideas and build collegial networks which may facilitate dialogue and research collaborations.
We hope that this forum will be widely used to bring together collaborators in various projects.
The Global Conference will be hosted online.
Conference brochure available here.
Registration Link for submitting abstracts: https://forms.gle/2L6sGzGrDwHETCvUA
Registration Link (for attendees): https://forms.gle/W3H3y8Sg86wffSZK8
Payment Link: https://paytm.me/VCX5-AL
For any queries write to us at crasl@mnlumumbai.edu.in or contactcrasl@mnlumumbai.edu.in or contact us at +91 – 6265012280 (Nardeep Chawla, CRASL)

GN Annual Meeting
2024-07-20 10:00 - 12:00 (America/Halifax)
With the following talks:
• Koohan Paik-Mander (Hawaii): Missile Defense: the big “KICK ME” sign
• Agneta Norberg (Sweden): US presence & military developments in North of Sweden
• Dr Dave Webb (UK): Concerns about spaceports & militarisation of space
• Choi Sung-Hee (Korea): Role of the space industry in South Korea
• Aruna Kammila (India): Israel and Hamas issue
• Karl Grossman (US): Mining the Sky
• Dr Sandeepa Bhat B (India): Space Security from the Indian Perspective
• Bruce Gagnon (US):Panel discussion moderator
Register in advance here for this meeting:
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
Thank you

'No Radar' Protest at DARC Exhibitions in Wales
2024-09-13 - 2024-09-14
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!
2024-09-23 - 2024-09-25
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
2024-10-05 00:00 - 2024-10-12 23:30 UTC
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
2024-10-13 - 2024-10-19
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 zero tolerance to genocide. Our hopes: to alter hearts and minds… Week will culminate in a day of peaceful resistance.
Please join us for a week of nonviolent resistance to militarized drones and genocide! Palestine will be front and center during our daily vigils…In honor of Aaron Bushnell let U.S. Air Force personnel know that we should NOT be complicit in genocide! Creech Killer Drone Base is the place to be to resist US complicity in genocide!
Come for part or all of the week. Limited travel stipends are available. Donations welcome.
REGISTER HERE

Protest the Militarization of Space
2024-10-24 11:00 (America/New_York) | Holiday Inn By The Bay, 88 Spring St, Portland, Maine, United States
Concerned 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 & Nuclear Power in Space, explained why members of his organization will picket the conference:
“The Maine Space Conference is promoting the militarization of space. Efforts are being made to test hypersonic missiles at the former Loring Air Force Base. bluShit Aerospace is receiving funding from the U.S. Air Force and Space Force to launch ‘dual use’ (military/civilian) mini-satellites into dangerously congested Lower Earth Orbit.
Promises of lots of jobs, little to no environmental impacts, and peaceful exploration of space are the standard claims made at a myriad of potential sites the U.S. military is exploring around the world.
The U.S. and Israel have been blocking a space weapons ban treaty (PAROS) at the United Nations for more than 25 years.
Our nation cannot afford to pay for a new expensive arms race in outer space.”
Lisa Savage of Solon, founding member of the Maine Natural Guard and Green independent candidate for U.S. Senate in 2020 said, “The fact that a rocket launch site could be an attractive target for military strikes concerns me. Also, some of the corporations involved in the conference this year – for example, Teledyne – directly profit from the U.S.-Israel genocide in Gaza.”
Environmental leader Hillary Lister of Augusta opposes rocket launches in Maine due to pollution concerns: “Rocket launches put wildlife, fisheries, and waters at risk no matter what type of fuel is used. Risk of fire is always present and the standard solution is PFAS foam. Also, waste and debris from rocket launches and satellites contribute to already serious plastic pollution on our land and in our oceans.”
More information on existing rocket launch sites may be found at the website No Toxic Rockets for ME
