2021 Space Week report with photos & links

By Bruce Gagnon and Dave Webb

This introductory video was used on some of the GN webinars that took place over Keep Space for Peace Week

The Global Network’s Space Alert! newspaper came out just in time for Keep Space for Peace Week. If you’d like to get one/or more copies just let us know and we’ll mail it to you – or you can download it online from here

Bruce received a space 4 peace key chain during the week from death row inmate and artist James P. Anderson at San Quentin prison in California.

See the list of events submitted here.

Here are some of the events that took place – as they happened.

29 September 2021

Space Alert! podcast interview with Christian Sorensen (Air Force veteran and researcher on the military industrial complex). Christian is now on the Global Network’s Advisory board.

2 October 2021

Oxfordshire Peace Campaing – vigil and webinar

Zoom webinar by Oxfordshire (UK) Peace Campaign

2 October 2021

Menwith Hill Accountability Campaign – Report launch

This Major Report on Menwith Hill Station near Harrogate UK reveals serious lack of accountability and democratic oversight of the activites operating

Launch of a new report: ‘Menwith Hill in 3D – Domes, Data and Drone Strikes’
commissioned by the Menwith Hill Accountability Campaign and Yorkshire CND, was formally launched as part of KeepSpace for Peace Week, on Saturday 2October 2021 at Harrogate Quaker Meeting House, North Yorkshire, UK.

The report updates a previous report that was published in 2012 and seeks to update information about the base following the Edward Snowden revelations about large scale international data capture.  Intelligence gained from the captured data has facilitated the increased use of drone warfare in recent years. 

The report also reveals ways in which electronic surveillance has developed at Menwith Hill. Use of intelligence captured by the Base to target drones means that the Base itself and the surrounding area are a potential target for retaliatory strikes.

Download the report here.

2 October 2021

Baltimore Nonviolence Centre & Peace Action

Protest on side of busy highway in Maryland just next to NSA HQ where they spy on the world.

2 October 2021

Convert BIW Coalition

Darth Vader made a personal appearance at Bath Iron Works in Maine during a shift change vigil on last day of Keep Space 4 Peace Week.

The sign says, ‘Aegis (destroyer) interceptor missiles can be used as Anti-Satellite (ASAT) weapons’ as was proven in a 2008 Navy test (Operation Burnt Frost) when they fired a missile into space and knocked out an old US military satellite.

3 October 2021

Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space webinar

‘Linking Militarized Space and Climate Change’ with Stuart Parkinson (UK), Regina Hagen (Germany), Dieter Engels (German astronomer), Bruce Gagnon (Maine), introduced by Dave Webb

4 October 2021

Dorothy Day Catholic Worker

Art Laffin (Dorothy Day Catholic Worker House) held a vigil in front of the White House in Washington and at the Pentagon during space week.

6 October 2021

The WB National University of Juridical Sciences – Online Workshop

Centre for Aviation and Space Laws on Kolkata, India. Workshop on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space with several Global Network speakers. Organized by new GN Advisory Board member Dr. Sandeepa Bhat

6 October 2021

Maine Veterans for Peace Peace Vigil

Protest at Bath Iron Works in Maine during another Aegis destroyer ‘christening’ ceremony at the shipyard. The sign indicates that the ‘missile defense interceptors’ onboard these warships have proven to be effective as anti-satellite weapons (ASATS) during a 2008 test from an Aegis destroyer made at the shipyard. Called ‘Operation Burnt Frost’ the Navy fired the interceptor and knocked an aging US military satellite out of orbit.

Lisa Savage from Maine Natural Guard makes the deadly connections between climate crisis and the Pentagon’s enormous carbon bootprint.

Maine Artist Russell Wray reminds us that the Navy’s sonar is known to be a regular killer of sea mammals. Russell makes beautiful wooden sculptures of whales and dolphins.

Protest rally video

7 October 2021

Merrimack Valley People for Peace

Merrimack Valley People for Peace at Raytheon space technology factory in Andover, Massachusetts

8 October 2021

Reject Raytheon AVL

Reject Raytheon hits the streets of Asheville, North Carolina to say Keep Space for Peace. Raytheon is building an aircraft engine factory that the group has been opposing for the past year or so.

Join us again next year for Keep Space for Peace Week 2022!