KEEPING SPACE FOR PEACE FOLLOW-UP AND REPORTING

Send your 2007 WILPF KS4P report to Carol.DIsarm@gmail.com.

BREAKING NEWS: Global Network Space newsletter for winter 2008 is now up on that web site. It includes lots of photos and several articles on Keep Space for Peace Week. Carol Urner's article (#9) gives an over view of the week's activities, but there is a lot more there and it makes an exciting read.

Read 2007 reports on Keep Space for Peace Week events as they come in. These will be all reports already posted to the Global Network site and will include those in which WILPF was involved. Scroll down below the photo and introduction to where you see Reports and click on that. Or, alternatively, scroll down to the very bottom of the section and you will find the reports accessible from there.

Prepare for WILPF's co-sponsorship of the Global Network annual international conference in Omaha, Nebraska, the most dangerous place on earth. Download the promotion flier to share with your Branch.

Read 2006 reports on KS4P week events. Everything is on line except the wonderful oversize document and maps of the U.S. space program provided by Colorado Citizens for Peace. Look here for ideas for your own 2007 report. Photos and graphics are encouraged! Read background resources for 2007 KS4P week to prepare yourself for further action to stop space militarizaton during the year ahead.

We are sending abbreviated reports and selected photos/graphics to World Space Week Association. This NGO works closely with the UN agencies monitoring space law to publish an annual illustrated report of events during UN World Space Week. We were invited to submit reports last year, and though we did so too late for full inclusion, reference is made to Global Network and WILPF events in the 2006 UN report. We expect fuller coverage in 2007 since we understand that WASA and UN agencies want to broaden the reports on keeping space for peace to include points-or-view like our own..

World Space week was established by the United Nations General Assembly and is under the auspices of UNOOSA. This is the secretariat for UNCOPUOS. These two inter-related UN agencies are located in Vienna and are responsible for monitoring international space law. They can also set "rules of the road" and initiate treaties that have to do with peaceful uses of outer space.

We hope to publish full WILPF reports (and, if funding is available, other GN KS4P reports as well) in a booklet to be made generally available. In any case, all reports should be available for downloading from our WILPF website by late January. Use them when planning next year's events.