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DESCRIPTION:Against a background of economic, military and political upheaval, the U.S. 
 continues to pursue a strategy of developing nuclear weapons, missile 
 defense systems and the militarization of space. The support in Congress 
 for various kinds of advanced weaponry has been less than it was during the 
 Cold War, a fact no doubt owing much to that era's decline. But the 
 plethora of global crises has prompted a strong push by the U.S government 
 and military to show its strength in a most familiar guise - its military 
 power. We have seen in a post-cold-war world a series of pulling back from 
 disarmament treaties as well as missed opportunities at new treaties, while 
 the U.S. military, despite calls for disarmament by people as unlikely as 
 Henry Kissinger, aims for development of global superiority through 
 advanced weapons systems.\n\nOn Tuesday, October 7, during the annual Keep 
 Space for Peace Week, Andy Lichterman, Program Director for the 
 anti-nuclear weapons organization Western States Legal Foundation, will 
 explore our country's efforts to dominate the rest of the world militarily. 
 Lichterman will make connections between the development of such 
 destabilizing hardware as space weapons and missile defense systems, and 
 our standing on the world stage. "The question," he says, is 'what's it all 
 about?'" That is, what is our government - and weapons contractors such as 
 Lockheed-Martin and Raytheon - hoping for? The question for the audience is 
 very likely to be, "what does this strategy mean, and what should we as 
 citizens have to say about it?"\n\nPeace Action of San Mateo County will 
 present this free public event at 7:30 PM on October 7 at Beck Hall of the 
 Unitarian Universalists of San Mateo, 300 E. Santa Inez Avenue (at 
 Ellsworth) in San Mateo. Beck Hall is wheelchair accessible.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/09/23/18540851.php
SUMMARY:Andy Lichterman of WSLF on High-tech Militarism and Global Crises
LOCATION:Unitarian Universalists of San Mateo\n300 E. Santa Inez\nSan Mateo, CA 
 94401\n\nhttp://www.uusanmateo.org/
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/09/23/18540851.php
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