Bruce Gagnon: The Ongoing Danger of Militarization of Space and Nuclear War
Part FIVE of a mini-series
Bruce Gagnon is the coordinator of the Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space. That’s an international organization he co-founded in 1992. It has an unbroken record of education and activism on a rarely covered topic, the Weaponization of Space.
As vice president of a Young Republican Club in Florida, Gagnon volunteered in Richard Nixon’s 1968 presidential campaign. His change in consciousness began with a small group of Vietnam War protesters who stood outside an Air Force base in California where he was stationed.
Gagnon’s new life began with the United Farm-workers; he organized fruit pickers in Florida. For 15 years he coordinated the Florida Coalition for Peace and Justice. In 1987 he organized the largest peace protest in Florida’s history. Over 5,000 people marched on Cape Canaveral in opposition to the first flight test of the Trident II nuclear missile.
Bruce Gagnon was one of the speakers at the two day symposium on the Dynamics of Possible Nuclear Extinction organized by the anti nuclear campaigner and physician Dr. Helen Caldicott. He spoke on February 28, 2015, in New York City.
Thanks to Mike McCormick for a clip from an interview he did with Bruce Gagnon on KEXP radio in Seattle in January 2015.
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