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Release The militarizing of space is to be the focus of Bruce Gagnon’s keynote address at the annual meeting of Promoting Enduring Peace Sunday December 13 beginning at 4 p.m. at the New Haven Friends Meeting House (225 East Grand Avenue; for rides see below.)
The meeting is free and open to the public.
During the second part of the meeting, following Gagnon’s presentation and a
refreshment break, PEP program plans for 2010 will be outlined, after which
the annual business of PEP will be transacted including the election of
directors, consideration of bylaw changes, reports on finances and programs,
and acceptance of new members. Founder and the current coordinator of the Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space (GN), he leads a network that has promoted on five continents the peaceful use of space and resisted extending the theater of war beyond the into space. Gagnon has been working on space issues for the past 25 years and helped found the GN in 1992. His book, Come Together Right Now: Organizing Stories from a Fading Empire was republished in 2008. For 15 years he coordinated the Florida Coalition for Peace & Justice and was trained as a community organizer by the United Farmworkers Union. GN’s website (space4peace.org) states, “The arms race is moving into space. From its base in Colorado Springs, the U.S. Space Agency has publicly stated that it intends ‘to control space in order to protect U.S. interests’. It is crucial that the movement to stop this new round in the arms race moves quickly ahead. U.S. policy now holds that whichever nation controls space will be able to project force "in space, from space, and into space". The destruction of satellites and vehicles resulting from war in space that would create a shell of metallic debris moving 10 times faster than a bullet, dooming human space exploration for centuries. The mission of Promoting Enduring Peace (PEP), one of the oldest and most accomplished U.S. peace organizations, is to conduct peace education promoting the advent of a harmonious planetary commonwealth through the convergence of the worldwide movements for disarmament, social justice, and environmental stewardship as the foundation of a sustainable peace. Founded by Yale Professor Jerome Davis in 1952, the essence of PEP's unique approach is the realization that world peace, social justice, and environmental harmony are interdependent and inseparable. See pepeace.org. Since its founding PEP, an accredited United Nations NGO based in New Haven, has presented significant conferences related to world peace, distributed over 10 million free peace education articles, conducted citizen diplomacy around the world, and honored peace heroes via the Gandhi Peace Award. PEP's Mission, Principles, and Vision statement is here.
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