Report on Keep Space for Peace Week: Photos & Links
Posted: 18th October 2021
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.
- Podcast interview with Christian Sorensen (Air Force veteran and researcher on the military industrial complex). See new Space Alert! podcast here
- October 2 BIW destroyer ‘christening’ rally video here
- October 2 Zoom webinar by Oxfordshire (UK) peace campaign here
- October 3 GN Zoom webinar called ‘Linking Militarized Space and Climate Crisis – Latest news from US & Europe’ here
- October 6 Zoom organized by Centre for Aviation and Space Laws in 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 here
* Top photo taken during a space week event in Asheville, North Carolina as activists opposing new Raytheon jet engine factory marched thru the city.
** See many more space week photos at Bruce Gagnon’s blog ‘Organizing Notes’ here
Space Alert in the mail
Our newspaper began arriving at GN members homes during space week. If you would like one (or more) copies let us know and we’ll mail the publication right away.
You can also view it online here
U.S. Croughton AFB near Oxford in UK protest on October 2
Croughton is a major US space warfare communications relay base currently being dramatically enlarged. After this protest the group held a Zoom webinar with a Global Network speaker.
Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space
P.O. Box 652
Brunswick, ME 04011
[email protected]
(207) 389-4606
