The purpose of passing resolutions is to inform and educate local community members about issues. Here's how you can pass a resolution in your town from the Berkeley Resolution model. Send the resolution to your Mayor and City Council. Find some friends in your community, school, church, club or organization that you belong to and ask them to call or write your City Councilmembers to support the resolution. On this site, you can find the:

and the letters of support from various leaders. You can also contact:

Please let us know when cities pass their own resolutions banning the weaponization of space. We will post them on this website as we learn about them. The overwhelming support of the global community is critical to passing the Kucinich Space Preservation Act when it is reintroduced in the 2003 Congressional Session. Canada has already expressed an interest a treaty signing conference. We can make this happen with pressure and support from our villages, towns, cities, and even county wide resolutions.

HELP US JOIN HANDS IN COMMUNITIES AROUND THE WORLD, LINKING PEACE AND LIFE IN SPACE!

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Barbara Lee
Congress of the United States
House of Representatives
Washington, D.C. 20515-0509

September 13, 2002

Mayor Dean and City Council
City of Berkeley
2180 Milvia Street
Berkeley, CA 94704-1122

Dear Mayor and Councilmembers:

I congratulate you on the passage of a resolution in support of the Space Preservation Act and the Space Preservation Treaty to Permanently Ban the Weaponization of Space.

As co-sponsor of the Space Preservation Act, introduced by my distinguished colleague, Congressman Dennis Kucinich, I applaud your action. This legislation is a milestone in history, and is a key to the successful and permanent banning of all space-based weapons for the benefit of all citizens of Berkeley, the nation, and the world.

Municipalities in the United States of American and worldwide can and will follow your example in calling on the U.S. Congress and the President as well as all world leaders and parliaments to sign the Space Preservation Treaty and to establish a vitally important outer space peacekeeping agency to monitor and to enforce this ban.

I support and congratulate the Berkeley City Council for adopting this important Resolution.

Sincerely,
Barbara Lee
Member of Congress

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Edgar Mitchell, Sc.D
P.O. Box 540037,
Lake Worth, FL, 33454

September 9, 2002

Name: Chairperson
Organization: Berkeley City Council
Subject: Proposed Resolution

I write in support of the proposed resolution before the Berkeley City Council regarding The Space Preservation Act and the Space Preservation Treaty to be introduced into the US Congress. As an Apollo astronaut, and long term advocate of banning weapons in space, I urge that all of us, as individuals, and at each level of government, recognize the critical nature of this issue. If, as the leading space faring nation, and the worlds only super power, we fail to stop the spread of weaponry into this frontier, and do so by example and self restraint, civilizations hope to end war will be forever lost, and the eventual destruction of life on Earth assured, as weaponry becomes ever more destructive.

I congratulate the City Council on taking up and considering this resolution. I hope you will favor its passage, and set an example for other governing bodies, and the people.

Edgar Mitchell, Sc.D
Captain, USN (ret.); Apollo 14 astronaut

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(International Association of Educators for World Peace Stationery)

Dr. Charles Mercieca,
Founder, IAEWP

September 9, 2002

Berkeley City Council
Berkeley, California, USA

Dear Members of the Berkeley City Council:

For the past 35 years I have worked hard for the fulfillment of the peaceful dream of Dr. Werner von Braun, Director of Marshall Space and Rocket Center over here in Huntsville, Alabama.  He envisioned a peaceful world with a permanent ban of weapons in space.

Unfortunately, Dr. von Brauns peaceful dream has been threatened seriously with the current move by merely a few elite to put weapons into space. This would be a serious mistake and a big tragedy since such a step will prove to be detrimental to our nation in particular and to the entire world at large. Many scientists, teachers, and concerned citizens from every walk of life, have voice periodical opposition against putting weapons of any kind in space.

Hence, I am writing in support of the proposed resolution before the Berkeley City Council regarding The Space Preservation Act and the Space Preservation Treaty to be introduced into the US Congress. A few astronauts have already voiced their opposition to the usage of space for war purposes. Weapons in space must be banned forever, otherwise the tragic consequences would soon reach a point of no return to the detriment of our own children and their posterity.

I hope that the Berkeley City Council will set a vital example in this regard for other governing bodies to follow.

Sincerely yours,

Dr. Charles Mercieca
President, IAEWP, NGO-UN
Professor Emeritus, AAMU-USA

Alan Hale,
Discoverer of Hale-Bopp Comet -

September 9, 2002

Dear Members of the City Council of Berkeley,

My name is Alan Hale, and I am a professional astronomer who resides in New Mexico. The world became acquainted with me a few years ago as a result of my discovery of Comet Hale-Bopp, which for a time blazed brightly in the nighttime skies of Earth. I am Director of a non-profit research and educational organization here in New Mexico, and during the past three years I have led two delegations of American scientists and educators on science diplomacy visits to Iran in order to help establish peaceful collaborations with our scientific counterparts in that country. I am presently at work developing a program called Earthrise, the purpose of which is to create a global network of astronomical facilities that will foster and encourage international collaborations for students around the world.

I am writing to you on the occasion of your consideration of a resolution to declare the skies above Berkeley as a space-based weapons free zone. From my days as a young child watching the exploits of the Gemini and Apollo astronauts, to my days as an engineer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory working with the Voyager project, and on up to my present-day endeavors, I have envisioned a humanity at peace exploring and expanding into the universe that surrounds us. As such, I have been deeply dismayed by the efforts of some to introduce the weapons of war and hatred into the space frontier. I believe that we, as humans, must do everything we can to prevent this from taking place.

Along these lines, I am deeply appreciative and supportive of the work of Congressman Dennis Kucinich and of the co-sponsors of the Space Preservation Act and the companion Space Preservation Treaty. Your consideration of the aforementioned resolution is an extremely important component of this process, and I urge you in the strongest possible terms to award it your approval. Your doing so will set a notable precedent and example for the rest of the communities of our nation and our world, and will provide a solid foundation upon which we can build a peaceful future in space, and on Earth, for all of humanity.

I thank you in advance for your consideration of my thoughts in this matter, and I congratulate you for your willingness to lead the way into a future of hope for all of us.

Sincerely,

Alan Hale, Ph.D
Director, Southwest Institute for Space Research
Cloudcroft, New Mexico

Dr. Carol Rosin,
President, ICIS

September 9, 2002

Dear Council Members of the City of Berkeley,

As a former corporate manager of an aerospace industry, a space and missile defense consultant since 1974, and President of the Institute for Cooperation in Space, after nearly 30 years of work in this arena, I am honored to be among the first to thank and congratulate you for what I anticipate will be your unanimous vote to pass the vitally important Resolution being presented to you on September 10th in support of the Space Preservation Act and the companion Space Preservation Treaty, and for your declaration that the space above the heads of all the good citizens of Berkeley shall be a space-based weapons free zone.

I appreciate this opportunity to briefly tell you that I wholeheartedly support your vote to pass this Resolution especially because we need for the fundamental research and development programs in our laboratories and universities to expand as they will with an expanded space program that will come into being once space-based weapons are banned. We need for our aerospace defense industries to create more and exciting space ventures (of a non-space-based limited weapons nature), and we need more jobs and training programs and profits, which is part of what this Resolution will help to provide. Our military representatives in the area of Berkeley, in California, in the US and around the world need to be respected for the new kind of services they can now provide with Space Age technology that is not of a space-based weapons nature. In the nearly 50 years of human evolution into space without space-based weapons, the new space age paradigm has been emerging. Now is the time to recognize it and preserve it, and thanks to you, this will be done. There is so much exciting R&D and exploration to be done as we focus on our evolution into the cosmos.

The Space Preservation Act and the Space Preservation Treaty will not only ban space-based weapons, but they will free up budgets and intentions that will make it possible to fund greater R&D programs in laboratories and universities. The space-based weapons program is limited, and once the mandate to weaponize space has been removed, the space program will be unlimited. This bill and treaty are not talking about cutting back military bases or corporate ventures as they relate to space&just the opposite. This space-based weapons ban will free the military industrial laboratory university complex to focus their R&D programs on clean and safe technologies for healing, for educating, for cleaning up the environment and providing clean energy, on enhancing on-going cooperative international space ventures that will further build real security, etc., including more support for the R&D of clean and safe technology, products and services that will be applied directly to solving urgent problems in the local community, state, country and world people and environment. People, including adversaries, will come together to reap these benefits. This is where and when consciousness shifts.

I can provide you with volumes of reasons for why space-based weapons are a too costly, dangerous, destabilizing, unnecessary idea that wont protect anyone or anything. And others may tell you why they are needed (which is not true). But none of that debate would change the game. And, we have no more time for debate. This is the time for this to happen.

You have this one moment in history to courageously make the correct decision to pass this vitally important Resolution on September 10th to rise above differences and perspectives to pass the Resolution for the citizens of Berkeley, the state of California, the USA, and the world, to help young and old enter into this new space age paradigm where there are no space-based weapons, so that, as Congressman Dennis Kucinich says, war will no longer be inevitable. Your Resolution is a win-win for all.Thank you.

Sincerely yours,
Dr. Carol Rosin
President, Institute for Cooperation in Space