Keep Space for Peace Week List Grows

October 6-13, 2012

 

Keep Space for Peace Week

International Week of Protest to

Stop the Militarization of Space

No Missile Defense

End Afghanistan War

No to NATO Expansion

Stop the Drones

Convert the Military Industrial Complex

Bring Our War $$ Home

End Corporate Domination of Foreign/Military Policy

 

 List in formation (please share with your local email lists)

 

 

• Albuquerque, New Mexico (Oct 3) Showing of award winning documentary Pax-Americana & the Weaponization of Space at the Center for Peace & Justice, 202 Harvard SE, 6:00 pm.  citizen@comcast.net

• Bath Iron Works, Maine (Oct 6) Vigil across from administration building on Washington Street (Navy Aegis destroyers built at BIW) 11:30-12:30 am   Smilin’ Trees Disarmament Farm   (207) 763-4062

• Bhubhaneswar (Orissa state), India (Oct 6) Space issues education and awareness program.  Coordinated by Ramchandra Patro  rama_bm@yahoo.com

• Bucks County, Pennsylvania (Oct 8) Bruce Gagnon speaks at evening potluck supper/program sponsored by BuxMont Coalition for Peace Action, and, earlier in the day possibility of talk at local community college and vigil at Lockheed Martin plant in Newtown.  brandywine@juno.com

• RAF Croughton, England (Oct 6) Rally at U.S. communication base, March to main gate 1 mile – starts Croughton village 12.00 midday, Returns 3:00 pm, Oxfordshire Peace Campaign, oxonpeace@yahoo.co.uk 

• Fylingdales, England (Oct 7)Begin bicycle trip from Fylingdales U.S. radar facility to Menwith Hill to highlight their connections with US missile defense and the use of space technology.   Overnight peace camp the night before.  info@yorkshirecnd.org.uk

• Jammu (Jammu & Kashmir state) India (Oct 10) Rally coordinated by Ashwani Pradadhan ashwanipradhan50@gmail.com

• King of Prussia/Valley Forge, Pennsylvania (Oct 12-13) Brandywine Peace Community’s annual Keep Space for Peace Week demonstration (and observance of U.S. Afghan war anniversary) at Lockheed Martin.  Lockheed Martin, the world’s largest war profiteer, a primary contractor of space weaponry as well as unmanned aerial vehicles, drones (including the Hell Fire missiles they carry) and the satellites which enable their remote control from the continental U.S.  brandywine@juno.com

• Malton, England (Oct 7) Peace in space cycle journey we will be stopping overnight at theYorkshire Market Town  info@yorkshirecnd.org.uk

• Menwith Hill, England (Oct 9) Demonstration at NSA Spy Base in Yorkshire at 6-8 pm.   Will be welcoming the cyclists from Yorkshire CND when they arrive at Menwith Hill from Fylingdales.  Sponsored by CAAB  mail@caab.corner.org.uk  or 01423 884076

• Nagpur, (Maharashtra state) India (Oct 9) Space issues education and awareness program at Women’s College, Nandanwant Lay out.  Coordinator Mrunalini Fadnavis mrunalinifadnavis@gmail.com

• Nagpur, (Maharashtra state), India (Oct 12) Students rally at Matru Sewa Sangh Institute of Social Work.  Coordinated by Prof. Geetha Thachil  geethathachil@gmail.com

 

• Nagpur, (Maharashtra state), India (Oct 13) A massive Dharna (Squating) will
  be held jointly with several organisations at Nagpur.  rao.jnrao36@sofy.com

• Newton, Massachusetts (Oct 21)  Bruce Gagnon speaks at First Unitarian Church,  1326 Washington Street, West Newton, 7:00 pm  Ncwrenn@aol.com   

• Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Oct 9) Bruce Gagnon speaks at a program observing the anniversary of the war in Afghanistan and Keep Space for Peace Week.  6:30p.m. Friends Center/American Friends Service Committee, 1501 Cherry Street. Co-sponsored by Brandywine Peace Community. Earlier in the day, possibility of class talk/meeting at University of Pennsylvania, a major drone researcher in Philadelphia, and protest of UPENN’s drones research.  brandywine@juno.com

• Ponidcherry University, India (Oct 7-8) Space issues education and awareness campaign Coordinator J. Narayana Rao rao.jnrao36@sofy.com

• Portland, Maine (Oct 8) Die-In with CODEPINK. People concerned about the use of drones to kill civilians, including many children, in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Yemen, the Philippines, etc. Meet at Obama campaign HQ, 533 Forest Ave,  (across from USM) from noon-1pm.  lsavage3@gmail.com

• Springfield, Pennsylvania (Oct 7) Anniversary of the U.S. war in Afghanistan. Bruce Gagnon speaks at the Peace Center of Delaware County, 1001 Old Sproul Road, www.delcopeacecenter.org   5:30 pm. Potluck Supper; 6:30 p.m. Presentation and Discussion: A Decade plus of War…Drones, and more: Empire and the Militarization of Space.  Evening co-sponsored by the Brandywine Peace Community  brandywine@juno.com

• Stockholm, Sweden (Oct 28) Swedish Peace Council seminar about The Militarization of the North: How the Arctic has become a dangerous field for war preparations. Speakers from northern Russia, Bard Wormdal from Vardö (northern Norway) on satellite war, from Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Sweden is present chair of Arctic Council) and Agneta Norberg on drone testing in Northern Sweden.    lappland.norberg@gmail.com

 

• Visakhapatnam (Andhra Pradesh state), India (Oct 11) Students rally coordinated by J. V. Prabhakar  prabhakar.jalluri@gmail.com

• York, England (Oct 8)Peace in space cycle journey we will be stopping to meet and talk with public. info@yorkshirecnd.org.uk

Keep Space for Peace Week is co-sponsored by the Women’s International League for Peace & Freedom, Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (UK), Swedish Peace Council, and the Drone Campaign Network (UK).

 

Download the full space week poster at:  http://www.space4peace.org/actions/Keep%20Space%20for%20Peacer%20Poster%202012.pdf

 

The award winning documentary Pax Americana & the Weaponization of Space is now available online at:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=tRA5bEO0cUg#!

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Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.  ~Henry David Thoreau

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