CATCHING UP

  Spent the day trying to get through two-weeks of mail from the post office. Quite a few orders for our new "War from Space? Voices of the Global Network" video that our friend Eric Herter filmed in Vancouver at the World Peace Forum last June. He edited it into a one-hour documentary which I think came out nicely. Eric lives here in Brunswick and was an Associated Press camera man stationed in Vietnam for many years. While there he somehow heard of the Global Network and when he moved here a couple years ago was very surprised to discover that we had moved here as well. He is a Vietnam war veteran and married a woman from Vietnam. They have a wonderfully bright kid named Samantha and her mother Hoa has taught her to call me uncle.

I heard from J. Narayana Rao today from Nagpur, India who organized our speaking tour there. He says about our visit that, "Both of you, with scholarly analysis of events which hitherto not heard at Nagpur, have won the hearts of various sections of people. I have called a meeting on the coming Wednesday to take stock of things and plan further dissemination of the information you have provided and also plan events. I will be extremely benefitted in my work with my association with you and the Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space."

So it appears our tour is having an impact and that is good to hear. I am going to suggest to our board of directors that we invite Rao to be a board member. As the U.S. pulls India into Star Wars we will need a good organizer like him in India to help build resistance to those plans.

While away Bush released his new national space policy. I will address it in greater detail later on the blog but for now you can see it yourself by clicking on the link in the headline above.