January, 2003

"We're asking our countries leaders to recognize the commonality of all people. We're asking our countries leaders to understand that the world is undivided. We're asking our countries leaders to see the world as an interconnected whole. We're asking our countries leaders to take a holistic view of the world and to allow the globe, the sphere of the Earth herself, to exist free from an assault from space. We have an opportunity to recreate the spirit of our times. I can feel it. We can take this technology for destruction, for war, and, through this proposal, create a technology for peace. We can create a world where war no longer becomes inevitable. We first have to look to a practical measure, such a measure to stop the weaponization of space. This Space Preservation Treaty, the ban of all weapons from space, will impact every issue. All the universe should understand that we truly come in peace because we exist in peace. Now, occasionally in life, we get the opportunity to stand at the epicenter of an event. Many of us have had that opportunity. Today, we have such an opportunity again. It is through peaceful cooperation that we will ensure that space will always be free from weapons. We have the chance today, launching this effort for peace, through saying, There shall be no weapons in space.' I support an international Treaty-signing Conference. And I ask leaders from all over the world to sign the Space Preservation Treaty, send it to the U.N. Secretary General as Treaty Depositary, and to ratify it, now."

- U.S. Congressman Dennis Kucinich

2003 is going to be the most exciting ever for space enthusiasts, and for people who want the R&D of safe and clean technology, products and services to be applied directly to solving urgent problems of humanity and our environment. Because 2003 is when the human species will experience a collective consciousness awakening and shift, as they see the arms race end before it escalates into space, and when the truth begins to be revealed about who we are in these bodies, on this planet, and in the universe. What makes 2003, so special? The choice will be made&weaponize space to "control and dominate" space (and he who controls space controls earth), or choose freedom, security, a stimulated economy, health and education for all. How will consciousness shift? When the reality becomes apparent that ALL space-based weapons have been banned, for all time.

Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) will re-introduce the Space Preservation Act in early 2003, there will be a world Treaty-signing Conference, and cities across the US and the world are now declaring the space above the heads of their citizens to be a space-based weapons-free zone. The only way the space program can expand is to continue space R&D, testing, manufacturing, production and deployment of civil, commercial and military space endeavors that are not related to limiting, dangerous, too costly, destabilizing space-based weapons that won't protect anyone or anything.

Achieving an enforceable, permanent ban on ALL space-based weapons is of immediate importance at this moment in history while it is within our practical reach to expand space ventures that can benefit all on earth, including adversaries. This ban can only be achieved before weapons are deployed into space, which would be done under the guise of calling them "tests," and/or before a momentum of funding and vested interests gets put into place that would make that unnecessary phase of weaponry unstoppable.

On June 13, 2002, the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty expired following President Bush's notice of abrogation on December 13, 2001. This action will permit research, development, testing, manufacturing, production and deployment of space-based weapons, and components of the U.S. Missile Defense System, to go forward. In the old paradigm, missile defense with space-based weapons makes sense. But we all know that we are in grave danger if we place weapons above everyone's heads pointed down everyone's throats. And the people of the US are emerging in support of Congressman Kucinich by the tens of thousands, more thousands every month send him emails of support&as he calls not just for a new approach on earth to solving problems of security and economics, and for all progressive issues vital to our survival, but for peace in space to continue.

Kucinich is Co-Chair of the Aviation and Space Caucus. Getting $100 million put into a recent NASA budget, he is a knowledgeable friend of space. He doesn't call for shutting down the space industry, or the space military program - just the opposite. He knows that space is already militarized. He is opposed to the weaponization of space as are most of us who care about our expensive and sensitive space assets.
He understands that contracts will continue without the mandate to weaponize space. And that more jobs and training programs will be created as the space program expands, which it will, once the limited space-based weapons program is omitted.

Most leaders of the world are on record wanting to ban space-based weapons, and they want space to be dedicated to providing benefits for all humankind. On April 12, 2001, U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan announced his support of this ban. Secretary General Annan stated that the international community recognized early on that a legal regime for outer space was needed to prevent space from becoming another arena of military confrontation. November 29, 2001, the U.N. General Assembly approved by a 156-0 vote the basis for a treaty establishing a permanent ban on space-based weapons (Resolution 56/535). The Resolution stated Member Nations were "convinced that further measures should be examined in the search for effective and verifiable, bilateral and multilateral agreements in order to prevent an arms race in outer space, including the weaponization of outer space." November 20, 2000, a similar U.N. General Assembly resolution to prevent an arms race in space (Resolution 55/32) was adopted with a163-0 vote.

Space-faring nation leaders have publicly stated they favor banning space-based weapons. July 26, 2001, Canada's Deputy Prime Minister John Manley stated, "Canada would be very happy to launch an initiative to see an international convention preventing the weaponization of space." Canada first called for a ban of space-based weapons in1982, again in 1998 and 1999.

The Space Preservation Treaty, companion to a U.S. bill, H.R. 3616, the Space Preservation Act introduced by U.S. Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), is the effective and verifiable, enforceable multilateral agreement that will prevent the weaponization of outer space and provide a win-win for the world. It will be reintroduced in February, 2003.

Under the terms of the Space Preservation Treaty, each State Party having signed the Treaty shall immediately work toward supporting other non-signatory State Parties in signing, ratifying and implementing the Treaty. Once three nations sign it and deposit it at the United Nations depositary, the U.N. Secretary General is required to report publicly to the U.N. General Assembly every 90 days on the progress of implementing a permanent ban on space-based weapons and on the progress of signing and ratifying of the Treaty by State Parties. Once 20 nations have signed and ratified the Space Preservation Treaty, it will go into force, and Article IV provides that "Each State party to this Treaty agrees to the establishment, funding, equipping and deployment of an outer space peacekeeping agency, whose mission is to monitor outer space and enforce the permanent ban of space-based weapons under this Treaty." This Agency will also make it possible to verify arms agreements including the reduction and eventual elimination of nuclear weapons and other dangerous technologies on earth.

Article VII of the Space Preservation Treaty provides that "The provisions of Articles 1 and II of this Treaty shall apply to all States, regardless of whether such States are signatures to this Treaty." Enforcement will take place in the context of a new space paradigm, a whole new way of thinking in terms of conflict resolution: enhanced communication and information sharing, and on applications of clean and safe technology, products and services that will now be applied directly to solve urgent human (health, education, poverty, etc.) and environmental (climate, energy, pollution, etc.) problems worldwide. Adversaries will come together to reap the benefits. This will lead to peace on earth and will preserve peace in space.

For the first time in history we have a space champion on the Hill who has produced a simple, feasible Space Preservation Act, which is completely compatible with and companion to the Space Preservation Treaty. The Space Preservation Act requires the U.S. President to work toward "negotiating, adopting and implementing an international treaty banning space-based weapons and the use of weapons to destroy or damage objects in space that are in orbit."

The Space Preservation Treaty is ready to be signed by all nation-state leaders, NOW. It is the most up-to-date, appropriate world treaty of our time as it will positively impact all we do in space and on earth as it brings us into the new space paradigm. And it is easily translated, as it in the language of the Space Preservation Act, the 1967 Outer Space Treaty, and the best of international proposals. Both the Space Preservation Act and the Space Preservation Treaty provides that "Each State Party to this Treaty shall:

(1) implement a ban on space-based weapons;

(2) implement a ban on the use of weapons to destroy or damage objects in space that are in orbit; and

(3) immediately order the permanent termination of research and development, testing, manufacturing, production and deployment of all space-based weapons of such State Party."

Because deployment of space-based weapons would take place under the guise of calling it "merely research" or "tests," and we are close to that happening in spite of rumors to the contrary, because the momentum of funding and vested interests put into place would make it impossible to stop the weaponization of space ever - (and that momentum building process is accelerating rapidly in the spin of "terrorism," which space-based weapons won't stop), the language and intention of this Space Preservation Treaty will halt ALL research, development, testing, manufacturing and production (key wording) as well as deployment.

And, the establishment of a new entity, an Outer Space Peacekeeping Agency that will be formed to monitor outer space and to enforce the ban is vitally important to this process of allowing us to expand with the greatest of opportunities of all time into space.

Sign the Space Preservation Treaty for a World Cooperative Space-Age Economy

The signing and ratifying of the Space Preservation Treaty is the step that will facilitate future public and private investment in sustainable, non-weapons, expanded civil, commercial and military, world cooperative space ventures, and the consequent stimulation of the national and world economy and a security system stronger than ever that is based on enhanced communication, information sharing, and on the applications of our space age technology, including that based in space, to solving urgent problems on earth while providing a beneficial and exciting future in our sacred space.

Article I, Section 4 of the Space Preservation Treaty (and this is in the Act, as well) provides that: "Nothing in this Treaty shall be construed to prohibit the following activities, provided that such activities are not related to space-based weapons:

Space exploration;

Space research and development; Testing, manufacturing or deployment that is not related to space-based weapons or systems; or

Civil, commercial, or defense activities (including communications, navigation, surveillance, reconnaissance, early warning, or remote sensing) that are not related to space-based weapons or systems."

Public and private investment in sustainable, non-weapons related space activities will open the way to significant positive impacts on all issues including on national and world economies - also including on space business and entrepreneurs.

When the ban on space-based weapons is signed into law, more technology will be researched and developed to meet the world's quantitative and qualitative demand. Investment in non-weapons space-related capital goods and services that come from sustainable space-based industries, businesses, labs, factories, space hospitals, habitats, hotels and resorts, schools and universities, elevators, and farms will contribute to the creation of economic multiplier effects which in turn will have positive impacts on terrestrial and space jobs and training programs, as an expanding consumer and producer economy grows on earth in this new, space age paradigm context where there will be no space-based weapons in our space frontier.

A space-based weapon is a capital good that would not itself produce jobs, goods and services. Whereas a sustainable space factory, hotel, or hospital, etc., for example, is a capital good that in turn multiplies the investment put into it by producing new jobs and training programs, new goods and services, new clean and safe technology, for the growing and stimulated space and terrestrial economy and marketplace.

Banning space-based weapons will create a new era of world cooperation and expansion into space in the context of a new space age paradigm wanted and needed by humankind as we evolve into the Universe, with unprecedented benefits, opportunities and prosperity.

By simply governing space in such a way that we cap the arms race before it escalates into space, at the only time in history when we can cap it, we can, Aikido style, transform the war industry into a sustainable, cooperative world space industry in order to get to peace and prosperity.

By just calling for peace and sustainable development, or even by protesting with facts when we want a change, we have seen the results: more war. The more one focuses on weapons and other dangerous technologies, the more one gets more weapons and other dangerous technologies. A new space vision is what we need to focus on and educate about. Because otherwise the old paradigm war gaming will move right into that place above all our heads. As the intention was always to "seize the high ground" to use that technology as force multipliers in war gaming.

Of course, space exploration cannot and should not be stopped. Nobody can stop that space R&D and exploration being done in the inexorably linked military industrial lab university intelligence complex. But, we can choose HOW humans can go into space and we will choose that in 2003: with or without space-based weapons and continued wars. It is time to make that choice.

Humankind's future space age economic engine lies not in contracts based on identifying more enemies and creating more wars, but on changing that industry and mindset to a non-weapons space related industry and economy based on space research and development, exploration, and on space manufacturing, production, deployment and travel, and on space habitation. We are the responsible generation, all of us, and we must make the conscious choice weapons or battle stations in space, but all kinds of exciting, beneficial and world cooperative space ventures that will finally bring the world together and into a state of peace. We CAN DO this, and we MUST DO this. It is OUR responsibility to make sure that space doe remain to be a space-based weapons free zone.

With vision and intention, we can now feasibly and easily (!) transform/convert the space-based weapons R&D program and war industry and into a world cooperative civil, commercial and military space program based on a space economy with an earth society that recognizes itself as a society in space that provides solutions.

As the collective consciousness becomes more aware and shifts, as humans become aware that inner and outer space IS peace, the nature of economics will shift from war to space, and, therefore, to peace. We will no longer experience wars as a primary economic driver. Space will become the economic stimulus. Instead of talking about a war to a peace economy, which didn't and won't work as the game was always based on seizing that highest ground, which, in our lifetime, happens to be in space itself, we are talking about a war to a space economy, since the war industry IS moving into space. The bill and treaty will simply remove the mandate to weaponize space, something we don't need or want anyway, thus allowing the economy and all sacred life on earth to flourish. Time is of the essence.

CONCLUSION: SIGN THE SPACE PRESERVATION TREATY, NOW

There is no more time for debate or distractions. Debates on this subject have taken place since March '83 when President Reagan introduced the Strategic Defense Initiative. And had gone on for decades before it hit the dinner table circuit.

Now, we have a champion on the US Hill, we have a local Resolution, a US national bill, and the companion Space Preservation Treaty ready to be signed, sealed and delivered in a way that will be the key to real and lasting peace on earth. The ABN Treaty was only between two countries, the Outer Space Treaty and other treaties and resolutions are not all inclusive, it is the Space Preservation Treaty that will prevent the weaponization of space.

Please make a Signature Copy of the Space Preservation Treaty for your Head of State and/or Foreign Minister to sign. Ask them to sign it immediately, and to send it immediately to the U.N. Secretary General as Treaty Depositary: U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan. United Nations, New York, New York 10017.

All U.N. Member State leaders, Heads of State, Foreign Ministers or designated officials, may sign the Space Preservation Treaty, now, and deposit it immediately with Secretary General Kofi Annan as Treaty Depositary under Article 102 of the U.N. (Over 40,000 international agreements have been so signed and deposited with the U.N. Secretary General since the inception of the United Nations.)

The Space Preservation Treaty establishes a permanent ban on ALL space-based weapons, implements a ban on the use of weapons to destroy or damage objects in space that are in orbit, and terminates research and development (R&D), testing, manufacturing, production and deployment of all space-based weapons. The Space Preservation Treaty establishes the vitally important international Outer Space Peacekeeping Agency to monitor outer space and to enforce (based on conflict resolution type techniques) the permanent ban of ALL space-based weapons as soon as the first twenty countries sign and ratify it. The Space Preservation Treaty allows continued R&D and exploration of civil, commercial and defense related activities that are not related to space-based weapons. This Treaty is a win-win for everyone. This is the time to do this. We must do this.

The Space Preservation Treaty comes into force and establishes the Outer Space Peacekeeping Agency as soon as the first twenty U.N. Member States have signed the Treaty and deposited instruments of ratification with the U.N. Secretary General. This Agency will also be equipped to verify arms agreements, including the reduction and inevitable elimination of dangerous technologies on earth.

An emergency Treaty-signing Conference for the Space Preservation Treaty will facilitate the signing and ratification process. This will be similar to the Canada Treaty-signing Conference in December, 1997, where 122 countries signed the Convention Banning Land Mines, known as the "Ottawa Convention." All Member States and nation-state leaders can sign and ratify the Space Preservation Treaty now. Any Member State (s) can initiate this Treaty-signing Conference.

U.S. Congressman Dennis Kucinich says,

"It is my sincere hope that all nation-state leaders will immediately sign this Treaty, send it to the U.N. Secretary General, and ratify it as soon as possible. The Space Preservation Treaty will play an integral role in securing space for peaceful purposes. I support your efforts to secure an international Treaty Conference to facilitate the signing and ratification of this Treaty. We can create more peaceful conditions in this world by reaching and claiming the universal high ground, that trackless space which is the inheritance of all of us. We have an opportunity to recreate the spirit of our times. We can take this technology for destruction, for war, and, through this proposal, create a technology for peace. We can create a world where war no longer becomes inevitable. We first have to look to a practical measure, such a measure to stop the weaponization of space."

To initiate an international Treaty-signing Conference, and/or to introduce the Resolution to ban space-based weapons in your city, or for further information including video tapes of Congressman Kucinich, please contact ICIS.

Read the Space Preservation Treaty