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3 – 10 October -Keep Space for Peace Week

Every October the GN calls for global actions to support “Keep Space for Peace Week” https://space4peace.org/keep-space-for-peace-week/

In 1999 the United Nations General Assembly declared that October 4-10 every year would be designated as ‘World Space Week’ to “celebrate the contributions of space science and technology to the betterment of the human condition” – we ask people to recognise this as a time to Keep Space for Peace

Each year the GN provides a poster for use to highlight the Week of Actions and posts a list of the actions organised by our members.

The Global Network’s annual Keep Space for Peace Week comes at a time when the Trump administration is moving to spend trillions of ‘unavailable dollars’ on his new pet project – Golden Dome. We are now facing the latest twist in the big-tech agenda for war in and from space.

Pistol Pete Hegseth has declared that the US must dominate space and has no ‘interest in orbital equity or orbital parity’. These words signal a dangerous declaration of coming space wars against nations like China, Russia, India and more.

Of course this will cost us the Earth in more ways than one. 

The development, construction and implementation of the proposed systems would generate thousands of tons of CO2 and accelerate climate change. The rocket launches involved would also degrade the ozone layer and pollute the ground and upper atmosphere.

In addition, the American Physical Society has estimated that the cost of Golden Dome would be trillions. Trump has said he wants to add Canada to the coverage area and even hinted adding Europe. Each addition adds massive costs to the proposed project which only makes the aerospace industry happy.

Trump recently stated that the Congress must vote to turn over Medicare and Medicaid coverage to the states because the feds can’t afford these vital programs due to our current wars. States don’t have the funds either!

This brutal austerity agenda includes privatising the Veterans Administration, Post Office, Social Security and selling off national parks and forests.

We urge you to help the Global Network during Space Week to illuminate these serious dangers and contradictions of the Golden Dome and the broader militarization and nuclearization of space.

One good resource is our library of  videos on nearly every aspect of the space issue. It would help to share some of these between now and October 3-10.

Please spread the news, you can also download and use this years poster:

October 1, 2026 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Events, space travel