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REPORT FROM VANDENBERG AFB, CA.
BY GLOBAL NETWORK COORDINATOR BRUCE GAGNON
Since I arrived in California I've been extremely busy and it has proven to be a good trip. I began in Oakland and met with Andy Lichterman from the Western States Legal Foundation that does work around DOE facilities and they are active in Abolition 2000. We spent several hours discussing the links between the technology development programs at DOE and he assures me that all the latest technologies developed for nuclear weapons are "dual" technologies that will be used in space weapons. I invited him to speak at our April, 2000 conference in DC on the subject.
I drove south to Vandenberg from Oakland and spent the day before our protest doing alot of media calls and I visited the base with my local host Bud Boothe. At the base we discovered that the Air Force has created a caged area that they wanted our protest to be in on 9/25 so we had to explain to them that we were not stupid and knew that we had the right to protest in front of the main gate. We had the ACLU call them from Los Angeles and when we arrived for the demo on 9/25 the fenced area had been removed and we had no further problems from them.
The day before the protest we had four articles in newspapers in the region and one of them in Lompoc (the town nearest the base) had printed my letter to the base commander which detailed our reason for being here and our call for base personnel to "lay down your missiles." We also discovered that the base paper had a front page warning to base personnel about the demo which was a help in creating discussion on the base. I really believe in this kind of activity because this is how I learned of the peace movement while being in the Air Force during the Vietnam War and seeing the impact of small demonstrations at the base I was stationed at in California during that period.
On the day of the demo we had 60 folks come from as far away as Los Angeles north to San Luis Obispo. So we got great support from the whole region around the base and beyond. The demo went well (vigiling and speakers) and when it was over a delegation of us took my letter to the commander, which by now had been signed by all present, and asked to see the commander. They said he was not available but that we could give it to a Col. Lamb if we wished. So they called him on the phone and soon enough he arrived. I looked him in the eye and explained it all for him and asked him to tell his boss to send the letter to his bosses in Washington DC. He said that he would do so.
We got extensive coverage of the demo on TV (first story on all three local stations) and good stories in the three pepers in the region the next day. I had brought along the Darth Vader costume which a local man wore for the entire demo holding a sign that read "No weapons in space" and that image was the primary visual that came across on TV and in the newspaper.
Since then I've done another newspaper interview with a weekly in Santa Barbara and two radio shows. One of them invited me to write a 90-second editorial which they had me come into the studio and tape and they will broadcast it twice. While in their lobby I noticed that the station had been voted the best radio station in Santa Barbara by readers of the local newspaper in 1997.
On 9/29 we will go back to the base for a early morning vigil from 7-9 am. Folks from the Catholic Worker House in Los Angeles who could not make the 9/25 demo will come and join with us. After that I'll head home.
The test had originally been planned for 9/29 but was changed to 10/2. We feel quite certain that they postponed it due to our presence at the base.
The best thing is that my expenses for the trip have only cost $500 (airfare and car rental). A local person gave me a check for the GN in the amount of $500 so this whole thing cost us very little. I can assure you that local activists are very grateful that we have done this and the cooperation has been wonderful. People from different cities who haven't met before have now and I hope that they will continue to protest the BMD system at Vandenberg in the near future.
One thing I have been telling everyone is that I read in "Aviation Week & Space Technology" last week that the Air Force is moving quickly on space based lasers that they hope to deploy soon after they get the go-ahead to deploy the BMD system. It is my belief that the so-called "defensive" BMD system is really intended to get the foot in the door, and then they bring on-line the other technologies that will surely be "offensive" in nature.
I've been handing out copies of the Space Command's "Vision for 2020" to all the media I meet and I'm sure to point out the picture in the back of a space based laser firing at a target on earth.
I do hope that people worldwide will pick up the pace on resistance to Star Wars as we move closer to the June, 2000 date where Clinton is expected to give the go-head for early deployment. Please help us build the pressure.
I conclude my suggesting that the GN consider holding one of our future meetings in this region. The level of space warfare work going on in southern California is staggering.
In peace,
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Since I arrived in California I've been extremely busy and it has proven to be a good trip. I began in Oakland and met with Andy Lichterman from the Western States Legal Foundation that does work around DOE facilities and they are active in Abolition 2000. We spent several hours discussing the links between the technology development programs at DOE and he assures me that all the latest technologies developed for nuclear weapons are "dual" technologies that will be used in space weapons. I invited him to speak at our April, 2000 conference in DC on the subject.
I drove south to Vandenberg from Oakland and spent the day before our protest doing alot of media calls and I visited the base with my local host Bud Boothe. At the base we discovered that the Air Force has created a caged area that they wanted our protest to be in on 9/25 so we had to explain to them that we were not stupid and knew that we had the right to protest in front of the main gate. We had the ACLU call them from Los Angeles and when we arrived for the demo on 9/25 the fenced area had been removed and we had no further problems from them.
The day before the protest we had four articles in newspapers in the region and one of them in Lompoc (the town nearest the base) had printed my letter to the base commander which detailed our reason for being here and our call for base personnel to "lay down your missiles." We also discovered that the base paper had a front page warning to base personnel about the demo which was a help in creating discussion on the base. I really believe in this kind of activity because this is how I learned of the peace movement while being in the Air Force during the Vietnam War and seeing the impact of small demonstrations at the base I was stationed at in California during that period.
On the day of the demo we had 60 folks come from as far away as Los Angeles north to San Luis Obispo. So we got great support from the whole region around the base and beyond. The demo went well (vigiling and speakers) and when it was over a delegation of us took my letter to the commander, which by now had been signed by all present, and asked to see the commander. They said he was not available but that we could give it to a Col. Lamb if we wished. So they called him on the phone and soon enough he arrived. I looked him in the eye and explained it all for him and asked him to tell his boss to send the letter to his bosses in Washington DC. He said that he would do so.
We got extensive coverage of the demo on TV (first story on all three local stations) and good stories in the three pepers in the region the next day. I had brought along the Darth Vader costume which a local man wore for the entire demo holding a sign that read "No weapons in space" and that image was the primary visual that came across on TV and in the newspaper.
Since then I've done another newspaper interview with a weekly in Santa Barbara and two radio shows. One of them invited me to write a 90-second editorial which they had me come into the studio and tape and they will broadcast it twice. While in their lobby I noticed that the station had been voted the best radio station in Santa Barbara by readers of the local newspaper in 1997.
On 9/29 we will go back to the base for a early morning vigil from 7-9 am. Folks from the Catholic Worker House in Los Angeles who could not make the 9/25 demo will come and join with us. After that I'll head home.
The test had originally been planned for 9/29 but was changed to 10/2. We feel quite certain that they postponed it due to our presence at the base.
The best thing is that my expenses for the trip have only cost $500 (airfare and car rental). A local person gave me a check for the GN in the amount of $500 so this whole thing cost us very little. I can assure you that local activists are very grateful that we have done this and the cooperation has been wonderful. People from different cities who haven't met before have now and I hope that they will continue to protest the BMD system at Vandenberg in the near future.
One thing I have been telling everyone is that I read in "Aviation Week & Space Technology" last week that the Air Force is moving quickly on space based lasers that they hope to deploy soon after they get the go-ahead to deploy the BMD system. It is my belief that the so-called "defensive" BMD system is really intended to get the foot in the door, and then they bring on-line the other technologies that will surely be "offensive" in nature.
I've been handing out copies of the Space Command's "Vision for 2020" to all the media I meet and I'm sure to point out the picture in the back of a space based laser firing at a target on earth.
I do hope that people worldwide will pick up the pace on resistance to Star Wars as we move closer to the June, 2000 date where Clinton is expected to give the go-head for early deployment. Please help us build the pressure.
I conclude my suggesting that the GN consider holding one of our future meetings in this region. The level of space warfare work going on in southern California is staggering.
In peace,
Bruce Gagnon
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Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 01:02:47 EDT
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How can I obtain the Vision 2020 document that details the Air Force plan.
Jonathan Granoff
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Date: Sat, 29 Sep 1990 04:28:29 -0400
From: hcaldic <hcaldic@ibm.net>
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) Fwd: VANDENBERG STAR WARS DEMO REPORT (fwd)
Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space wrote:
>
Bruce, I've been talking to Carol Rosin recently and she is also deeply
concerned about weapons in space and feels that it is almost too late.
Her number is 8056411999, Sincerely Helen
> Bruce K. Gagnon
> Coordinator
> Global Network
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> Web site: http://www.globenet.free-online.co.uk/
> Please send this out to our e-mail list ASAP. Bruce
>
> REPORT FROM VANDENBERG AFB, CA.
>
> BY GLOBAL NETWORK COORDINATOR BRUCE GAGNON
>
> Since I arrived in California I've been extremely busy and it has proven to be a good trip. I began in Oakland and met with Andy Lichterman from the Western States Legal Foundation that does work around DOE facilities and they are active in Abolition 2000. We spent several hours discussing the links between the technology development programs at DOE and he assures me that all the latest technologies developed for nuclear weapons are "dual" technologies that will be used in space weapons. I in
>
> I drove south to Vandenberg from Oakland and spent the day before our protest doing alot of media calls and I visited the base with my local host Bud Boothe. At the base we discovered that the Air Force has created a caged area that they wanted our protest to be in on 9/25 so we had to explain to them that we were not stupid and knew that we had the right to protest in front of the main gate. We had the ACLU call them from Los Angeles and when we arrived for the demo on 9/25 the fenced area ha
>
>
>
>
>
> We got extensive coverage of the demo on TV (first story on all three local stations) and good stories in the three pepers in the region the next day. I had brought along the Darth Vader costume which a local man wore for the entire demo holding a sign that read "No weapons in space" and that image was the primary visual that came across on TV and in the newspaper.
>
> Since then I've done another newspaper interview with a weekly in Santa Barbara and two radio shows. One of them invited me to write a 90-second editorial which they had me come into the studio and tape and they will broadcast it twice. While in their lobby I noticed that the station had been voted the best radio station in Santa Barbara by readers of the local newspaper in 1997.
>
> On 9/29 we will go back to the base for a early morning vigil from 7-9 am. Folks from the Catholic Worker House in Los Angeles who could not make the 9/25 demo will come and join with us. After that I'll head home.
>
> The test had originally been planned for 9/29 but was changed to 10/2. We feel quite certain that they postponed it due to our presence at the base.
>
> The best thing is that my expenses for the trip have only cost $500 (airfare and car rental). A local person gave me a check for the GN in the amount of $500 so this whole thing cost us very little. I can assure you that local activists are very grateful that we have done this and the cooperation has been wonderful. People from different cities who haven't met before have now and I hope that they will continue to protest the BMD system at Vandenberg in the near future.
>
> One thing I have been telling everyone is that I read in "Aviation Week & Space Technology" last week that the Air Force is moving quickly on space based lasers that they hope to deploy soon after they get the go-ahead to deploy the BMD system. It is my belief that the so-called "defensive" BMD system is really intended to get the foot in the door, and then they bring on-line the other technologies that will surely be "offensive" in nature.
>
> I've been handing out copies of the Space Command's "Vision for 2020" to all the media I meet and I'm sure to point out the picture in the back of a space based laser firing at a target on earth.
>
> I do hope that people worldwide will pick up the pace on resistance to Star Wars as we move closer to the June, 2000 date where Clinton is expected to give the go-head for early deployment. Please help us build the pressure.
>
> I conclude my suggesting that the GN consider holding one of our future meetings in this region. The level of space warfare work going on in southern California is staggering.
>
> In peace,
>
> Bruce Gagnon
>
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Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 18:26:17 -0700
From: Shundahai Network <shundahai@shundahai.org>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Action Alert: Nuclear Test Thursday
Shundahai Network
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Hello friends.
This action alert is about the sub-critical nuclear test scheduled for th=
ursday. We have had great TV and press response. We hope that you can joi=
n us to call attention to nuclear testing and Yucca Mountain. Shundahai N=
etwork will be featured on channel 8 in Las Vegas in a five minute live =
interview on the 9:30pm news. Tomorrow is Don't Waste Nevada Day. Jackson=
Browne will be performing at a benefit dinner to support efforts to pres=
erve Yucca Mountain at the Lake Las Vegas Resort. Don't forget your drum=
s and constumes and we'll see some of you there. Shundahai, Michelle
DEDICATED TO BREAKING THE NUCLEAR CHAIN
Sept 29, 1999
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Michelle Xenos 702 647 3095
=09
DRUMS VERSUS "OBOE" : PROTESTORS DENOUNCE
THE LAST U.S. SUBCRITICAL PLUTONIUM EXPLOSION OF THE MILLENNIUM
On Thursday, September 30th at the Foley Federal Building on Las Vegas B=
oulevard at Bridger, drummers will demonstrate their opposition to nucle=
ar testing and waste. From 3:30 pm to 5:30 pm the musical activists from =
local anti-nuclear organizations will beat drums outside the Federal offi=
ces against the day's Subcritical Nuclear Test, "Oboe" (the 7th of 40 sch=
eduled nuclear tests).=20
Also, some of the same activists will hold a morning Sunrise Ceremony at=
the Nevada Test Site on Thursday September 30th, as one final attempt to=
stop this "last blast of the century." After the ceremony the prayerful =
group will take nonviolent direct action at the Test Site entrance, visib=
le from the Mercury Exit on U.S. Highway 95, 65 miles north of Las Vegas.=
=20
=09
Every September 30th is Nevada is Not a Wasteland Day, as proclaimed by =
Governor Miller in 1997. "It is outrageous that the D.O.E. continues to c=
onduct nuclear tests. Nevadans are seriously opposed to nuclear waste in =
this state. When are we going to realize that nuclear weapons testing cre=
ates waste that is putting more lives at risk? The D.O.E. has admitted th=
eir programs have serious health impacts on the public," says Michelle Xe=
nos of the Shundahai Network. In the past week there have been hearings a=
nd media coverage regarding the proposed Yucca Mountain waste repository,=
adjacent to the Nevada Test Site (N.T.S.). Nevada is Not a Wasteland Day=
was created for Nevadans to honor the commitment against nuclear waste u=
ntil the Yucca Mountain Project has been terminated. Meanwhile the D.O.E.=
daily dumps low-level nuclear waste at the N.T.S. that is from the nucl=
ear weapons industry. Oboe is supposed to be detonated at the Nevada Te=
st Site on September 30th.=20
"All these tests must be stopped now," according to Marcus P. Blaise Pag=
e of the Nevada Desert Experience, "Our people--the people of the United =
States--are making radioactive waste at every step in the process: from t=
he uranium mining, throughh the processing into plutonium, through the su=
bcritical explosion of the plutonium, humans create more of this =91poiso=
n fire'." The Nevada Desert Experience has been sponsoring prayer, direct=
action, retreats, and walks to the Test Site since 1982.=20
Tomorrow's afternoon action is Part Two of "Drum Down Babylon Daze," in =
which peace and environmental activists visit governmental offices to req=
uest the halting of all nuclear weapons tests."Don't be part of the Silen=
t Majority--I'd rather hear a drum beat than a sour note!" says Gregor Ga=
ble of the Shundahai Network.
Free Radio Vegas will broadcast the event on 87.9 FM radio for passing m=
otorists to tune in and learn about the day's activities. Gary Peck from =
the ACLU will be on hand to protect the activists' civil rights.=20
