Zappa says Star Wars won't work

Ian Murray seamus2001 at home.com
Wed May 2 23:11:51 PDT 2001


["Star Wars Won't Work" from "Make a Jazz Noise Here"... but seriously...]

INTERNATIONAL STAR WARS CONFERENCE IN ENGLAND

For Immediate Release

Contact: Bruce Gagnon (GN) globalnet at mindspring.com

(352) 337-9274

Rachel Julian (Yorkshire CND) cndyorks at gn.apc.org

Hundreds of concerned citizens from around the world will gather in Leeds,

England on May 4-6 to protest plans for deployment of the Ballistic Missile

Defense (BMD) system -- the Son of Star Wars.

The three days of events are being sponsored by the Global Network Against

Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space (GN) and their affiliate Yorkshire Campaign

for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) and will serve to build momentum for the

growing worldwide grassroots campaign to keep space for peace. Activists

from over 15 countries are expected at the Leeds events, including people

from Japan, South Korea, Europe, Australia, United States, and Russia.

Events in Leeds will include:

* Friday, May 4: News conference and protest rally in the Leeds city

center as well as a bus trip to visit the U.S. Menwith Hill spy satellite

base.

* Saturday, May 5: Day long conference entitled "No Star Wars: An

International Conference to Keep Space for Peace."

* Sunday, May 6: International membership meeting of the Global Network.

"This conference reflects the growing international movement to stop the

U.S. from moving the arms race into the heavens," said U.S.-based GN

Coordinator Bruce Gagnon. "People understand that deployment of any BMD

system by George Bush will open the door to warfare in space. Our

conference will give activists from peace movements around the world the

chance to meet, share information, and build a unified effort. We intend to

Stop Star Wars."

The aerospace industry stands to make hundreds of billions of dollars of

profit from Star Wars. The U.S. Space Command has stated that it intends to

"control and dominate space" in order to protect U.S. corporate interests

and investments around the world and in space. Already the Pentagon is

talking about deploying the space-based laser, the real Reagan-era Star Wars

weapon. http://www.spacecom.af.mil/usspace

"The Global Network chose to hold this international conference in Yorkshire

because the U.S. has major satellite and radar facilities in this region

that must be upgraded to handle the new Star Wars program," said CND's

Rachel Julian. "The peace movement in the United Kingdom is working to stop

our government from giving the U.S. permission to complete those upgrades."

Conference proceedings on Saturday, May 5 will be broadcast via an

interactive website so that people who can't make the trip can still join

in. There will be audio interviews, video shots of the rally and trip to

Menwith Hill. Speakers and presentations will be available on-line and

on-line forums will be provided for people to interact directly with each

other all around the world.

Such an important issue demands that we develop a world-wide communication

network to exchange views and ideas. The conference website will be

launched on May 1. Check the GN's website at: http://www.space4peace.org

The GN was founded in 1992 to stop the nuclearization and weaponization of

space. Each year the GN holds its membership meeting in a different

country. Today the GN has 150 active affiliate groups located on all

continents of the world.

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Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space

PO Box 90083

Gainesville, FL. 32607

(352) 337-9274

http://www.space4peace.org

globalnet at mindspring.com



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