UTC Campus Student Greens and Sequatchie Valley Institute announce:

Mr. Bruce Gagnon of the Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in
Space. His lecture is titled: "The U.S. Space Command: Military Arm of
Corporate Globalizaton" Mr. Gagnon will talk about the Pentagon's Space
Command and its plans to dominate space and the earth for American
political and business interests and to push the agenda of corporate
globalization. This event is free and open to the public and will occur on
Wednesday, September 18th, 2002 from 7:00 to 9:00 pm at the University of
Tennessee at Chattanooga's Holt Hall in Room 208.

Bruce Gagnon is the Coordinator of the Global Network Against Weapons &
Nuclear Power in Space. He was the organizer of the Cancel Cassini Campaign
(NASA launched 72 pounds of plutonium into space aboard the Cassini in
1997) that drew enormous support and media coverage around the world and
was featured on the TV program 60 Minutes. Between 1983 - 1998 Bruce was
the State Coordinator of the Florida Coalition for Peace & Justice and has
worked on space issues for the past 17 years. In 1987 he organized the
largest peace protest in Florida history when over 5,000 people marched on
Cape Canaveral in opposition to the first flight test of the Trident II
missile. Project Censored (from Sonoma State University, CA) named a story
on space weaponization by Bruce as the 8th Most Censored story in 1999.
Bruce has traveled to and spoken on space issues in England, Germany,
Mexico, Canada, France, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Japan, Greece and throughout the
U.S. He has also spoken on many college campuses including: Loyola
University, Drake University, Webster College, Cornell University,
University of Michigan, Cal Poly Institute, University of Pittsburg,
Fordham University, University of Oregon, University of Alaska Anchorage,
Hunter College, and the University of Florida. His articles have appeared
in Earth Island Journal, National Catholic Reporter, Toward Freedom,
Fellowship, Gainesville Sun, and Red Pepper (UK). In 1968 Bruce was
Vice-chair of the Okaloosa County (Florida) Young Republican Club while
working on the Nixon campaign for president. Bruce is a Vietnam-era veteran
and began his career by working for the United Farmworkers Union in Florida
organizing fruit pickers.

Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space
PO Box 90083 Gainesville, Florida 32607
Phone: (352) 337-9274
e-mail:[log in to unmask]
www.space4peace.org

For more information please contact:
Amanda Womac - UTC Campus Greens - 821-3501,