From Global Network Against Nuclear Power and Weapons in Space:
No war in the heavens!
Keep Space for Peace Week is organized each year by the Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space.
This year space week will be held October 3-10. During that time we ask groups and concerned citizens of the global community to organize events and share information about the growing dangers of the US program to ‘control and dominate space and to deny others the use of space’. This was all spelled out in the US Space Command document called Vision for 2020.
Various activities could be held during the week. Educational forums, protest events outside military bases, military weapons production sites, various government installations and along busy streets.
The public must be informed about the growing costs of preparation for war in space that would result in the theft of taxpayer monies (trillions of dollars) that could otherwise be used for health care, education, environmental care, public transportation, infrastructure repair and more.
Many nations are now falling into the trap of investing in this ‘pie in the sky’ dream of mining the sky for resource extraction on the planetary bodies. Elon Musk wants to mine Mars for magnesium, cobalt, uranium and other minerals. On the Moon there is helium-3 and water that attracts many greedy ‘investors’. Gold is promised on the asteroids.
With each polluting rocket launch a larger hole is punched in the Earth’s ozone layer that keeps life on our fragile planet from burning up. Also Lower Earth Orbit (LEO) is now getting so crowded with satellites that scientists fear cascading collisions (called the Kessler Syndrome) will occur making it virtually impossible to get a rocket off our planet thru that space mine field.
There are many reasons to oppose the nuclearization and weaponization of space. Please go to our two video libraries here and here and help spread these various space-related videos during space week.
Thanks for your interest and concern. Please contact us with any questions or suggestions at globalnet@mindspring.com
Bruce K. Gagnon
GN Coordinator
Free The Sky 