The Star Wars protest site will be on the Richardson Highway south of Delta Junction. Participants park and convene at a scenic pull off located a mile and a half north of the main entrance to the base, a few miles south of the town of Delta Junction. From there we march to the entrance of the base and hold a demonstration for a few hours.

The Peace Camp campsite this year will be on privately owned land with a field on the banks of the river - the home of a Delta resident and active No Nuker.

No Nukes North has organized demonstrations and peace camps at Fort Greely for the past five years. In September 2001 we protested land clearing for the silo field. In June 2002 we protested the unilateral
abandonment of the 1972 Anti Ballistic Missile Treaty by touring the state
with special guests to promote awareness and held peace camp at Greely to
protest ground breaking for silos. In 2003 we had our third gathering and
demonstration after the doctrine of preemption was put into practice,
interceptor silos on Kodiak were approved (they haven't been built yet because
the testing program was abandoned), and the number of missiles slated for
Greely rose.

In 2004, interceptor missiles for the Ground-Based Midcourse Defense
element of the missile defense system were being loaded into their silos at
Fort Greely, Alaska, and the Pentagon announced ‘deployment’ in October -
in time for the election. This in spite of a recent letter signed by nearly
50 retired military officers who criticized the deployment of "a system that
doesn't work to protect us against a threat that is very unlikely."

The complete missile defense system "will cost the American taxpayer upwards of
$10.2 billion during Fiscal Year 2005, and as much as $1.2 trillion by 2035."

That's right: OVER A TRILLION DOLLARS for big, useless bullets in the
ground that have already destabilized the planet and sparked an arms race that
will include nuclear blasts in outer space, while right now our troops in Iraq
are chronically short of ammo and other basic supplies.

Tthe destruction of hard-won arms control agreements
is the worst aspect of the star wars program. The US decision to deploy this
system was seen by international arms control experts (including hawks like
Richard Butler) as the key determinant of whether the Non-Proliferation Treaty
and other arms control treaties would survive at all. Silos and interceptors
in the ground at Greely have now destroyed all the difficult work that has
kept the nuclear peace since the last time the US dropped the Bomb on
somebody. The fact that the system clearly does not and will not ever work
is, in my mind, secondary (see the Union of Concerned Scientists recent report "Technical Realities", an analysis which found "no basis for believing the
system will have any capability to defend against a real attack.")

The MDA plans to get 10 missiles in the ground this year -- a small
fraction of the number they eventually plan to field at Greely. The Pentagon
was forced to abandon the testing program of the system, and now claim they
cannot test it until it is built. However, test launches from Fort Greely, in
the interior of Alaska, are not currently allowed as booster components could
fall on populated areas (duck and cover, Anchoragites!)

Not only is the Pentagon claiming 'deployment' without testing the system,
but they are doing so while critical components of the system don't exist or
are not in place. The space-based infra-red satellite ('the first step in a
credible missile defense' !) doesn't exist, and the sea-based x-band radar
isn't due at Adak Island until next year. "Deployment" couldn't be more of a
farce, but the Bush administration knows it merely has to fool enough people
and win the election to continue their massive corporate welfare plan for
Lockheed Martin/Boeing/Raytheon and TRW.

If you ask Americans whether we should keep weapons out of space, most
agree we should. However, 70% of Democrats support missile defense - by the
military's own description, the first layer in full-spectrum dominance of
space.

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