Cancel Star Wars II.Vandenberg Air Force Base Vandenberg Air Force Base, U.S. military installation, 3,456 acres (1,399 hectares), SW Calif., near Lompoc; chief Pacific coast launch site for military satellites. , California Dressed as Darth Vader, a protester denounces a preliminary test of missile defense technology. Several groups participated in the action on September 25, including the American Friends Service Committee The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) is a Religious Society of Friends (Quaker) affiliated organization which works for social justice, peace and reconciliation, abolition of the death penalty, and human rights, and provides humanitarian relief. , California Peace Action, Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space, Grandmothers for Peace Grandmothers for Peace (a.k.a. Grandmothers for Peace International) is an organization started by Barbara Wiedner (1928-2001) in May 1982 in Sacramento, California in the USA, after the mass media became "captivated by the image of a grandmother Barbard Wiedner risking jail International, and the Southern California Federation of American Scientists The Federation of American Scientists (FAS)[1] is a non-profit organization formed in 1945 by scientists from the Manhattan Project who felt that scientists, engineers and other innovators had an ethical obligation to bring their knowledge and experience to bear . "Star Wars must be stopped," says Bruce Gagnon, coordinator of the Global Network. "We cannot allow the U.S. to unilaterally decide to move the arms race into space. We intend to organize to keep space for peace." For more information, contact the Global Network at P.O. Box 90083, Gainesville, FL 32607, or phone (352) 337-9274, or visit its web site at www.globenet.freeonline.co.uk. |
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