Alfred Webre

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Alfred Lambremont Webre

Born May 24, 1942 (1942-05-24) (age 66)
Flag of the United States Pensacola, Florida
Education Yale University
Yale Law School
University of Texas at Brownsville
Occupation Author
Lawyer
Futurist
Peace Activist
Environmental Activist
Space Activist
Spouse Geri Webre [1]

Alfred Lambremont Webre, J.D., M.Ed. (b. May 24, 1942 on a U.S. Naval Air Station) is an author, lawyer (member of the District of Columbia Bar), futurist, peace activist, environmental activist, and a space activist who promotes the ban of space weapons. [2][3][4][5] He was a co-architect of the Space Preservation Treaty and the Space Preservation Act that was introduced to the U.S. Congress by Congressman Dennis Kucinich and is endorsed by more than 270 NGO's worldwide. [6][7][8][5] He helped draft the Citizen Hearing in 2000 with Stephen Bassett and serves as a member of the Board of Advisors. Webre is also on the Board of Advisers at the Exopolitics Institute [7], is the congressional coordinator for The Disclosure Project [9], is a judge on the Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal [3], and is the International Director of the Institute for Cooperation in Space.

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[edit] Education

Webre entered Yale University in 1960 and graduated in 1964 with a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Administration Honors. His interest in law brought him to continue his education and to graduate from Yale Law School with a Juris Doctor in International law in 1967. [5] While studying at Yale Law School, he was also an Assistant in Instruction at the Economics Department of the U.S. Federal Taxation at Yale University (1965-1967). In 1967-1968, Webre traveled to Montevideo, Uruguay and became a Fulbright Scholar in Economic Integration. [5] In 1993, he entered the University of Texas at Brownsville and graduated with a Master of Education in Counseling in 1997. [5]

[edit] Early career

Webre became an associate with Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, in New York City, in 1968. His responsibilities were international finance, tax, and litigation practice for investment banking, corporate, and public sector clients. In 1970, he joined the New York City Environmental Protection Administration as the General Counsel and Assistant Administrator. [10] He designed and enforced environmental standards for air, water, noise pollution, and solid waste management. In 1973, he went to work as a consultant for the Ford Foundation’s Public Interest Environmental Law Program in New York City. [10] He was in charge of evaluation and program recommendations in public interest environmental law program for grantees including Natural Resources Defense Council and Environmental Defense Fund. In 1977, he joined Stanford Research Institute (SRI International) in Menlo Park, California, as a futurist for the Center for the Study of Social Policy. [4][10] His responsibilities were the studies in alternative futures, innovation diffusion, and social policy applications for clients including the Carter White House Extraterrestrial Communications Study [10][5], the National Science Foundation, U.S. Congress (Office of Technology Assessment), the U.S. Department of Energy, and the State of California (Energy Plan).

[edit] Later career

Webre was a member of the Governor's Emergency Taskforce on Earthquake Preparedness for the state of California between 1980 & 1982. Between 1982-1987, he was a Non Governmental Organization (NGO) Delegate at the United Nations in New York. He was involved with the Communications Coordination Committee for the United Nations, with the UNISPACE Outer Space Conference (Vienna) and involved with the United Nations Second Special Session on Disarmament. [5] In 1983, Webre joined the New York State Legislative Institute as Senior Fellow. He spent time on issues of public policy studies and legislative initiatives for the New York State legislature as well as the development of Graduate School of Political Management. In 1986, he became President of Legal Access Worldwide (L.A.W.) an international legal access and litigation management firm. In 1987, Webre produced and hosted "The Instant of Cooperation", the first live radio broadcast between USA and the then Soviet Union, carried live by Gosteleradio and NPR satellite on WBAI-FM. [11][5] In 1996, he was an elected delegate to the Texas Democratic Presidential Convention in Dallas, Texas.

In 2000, he was a presenter at the Presidential Forum on Off-Planet Cultures Policy at the Santa Clara Convention Center in California. Since 2002, he is the host of "The Monday Brown Bagger", a public affairs radio talk show on Coop Radio CFRO 102.7 FM in Vancouver, British Columbia. [12][11][5] He is a founding director of Canada's No Weapons in Space Campaign (NOWIS) established in 2002. In 2004, he created the Campaign for Cooperation in Space (CCIS), an international organization where he works with others to prevent the weaponization of space and promote the transformation of the war economy into a peaceful, cooperative space exploration industry. In March 8, 2004, Webre attended the Council of Canadians public forum at the Maritime Labour Centre in Vancouver. [13] On March 14, 2005 Webre joined the editorial and advisory team for Peace Media. [11] On February 16, 2007, Webre said that the 2007 Chinese anti-satellite missile test occurred in order to stop the United States from proliferating weapons in space. [8]

[edit] Institute for Cooperation in Space

Alfred Webre and Dr. Carol Rosin founded the Institute for Cooperation in Space (ICIS) in 2001. The ICIS mission is to educate decision-makers and the grassroots about why it is important to ban space weapons. Through the help of Congressman Dennis Kucinich, the Space Preservation Act (HR 3657) was introduced to the 108th Congress on January 23, 2002. ICIS continues to lobby for a Space Preservation Treaty conference where leaders of the world would gather to ban space weapons. Supported by former Minister of National Defence Hon. Paul Hellyer who believes that this treaty would help put a cap on the war industry and open the door for international cooperation in outer space exploration. Thus, transforming the "war based" economy into a "peace based" economy.

The ICIS board is made up of various prominent individuals such as former astronauts Edgar Mitchell & Dr. Brian O'Leary, as well as Arthur C. Clarke, General Council Daniel Sheehan and John McConnell who is the founder of International Earth Day. [14]

[edit] Exopolitics

After a lifetime of experiences, research and interactions with key players, Webre believes that there is intelligent extraterrestrial life in our Universe. [2] He is the author of the online e-book, "Towards a Decade of Contact" and the book Exopolitics: Politics, Government, and Law in the Universe. The exopolitics model functionally maps the operation of politics, government and law in an intelligent Universe, and provides an operational bridge between models of terrestrial politics, government and law, and the larger models of politics, government and law in Universe society.

Webre believes that as exopolitics posits, the truest conception of our human circumstance may be that we are on an isolated planet in the midst of a populated, evolving, highly organized inter-planetary, inter-galactic, multi-dimensional Universe society. [2][5] He believes that we live on a planet that has been quarantined (the Zoo Hypothesis) and that we are now being given an opportunity to join the rest of the spiritually evolved Universe Society in peace, thus an opportunity to avoid environmental global self-destruction or global self-destruction through war. [2]

Webre's views are not unlike the conclusion of other independent researchers such as Associate Professor of Political Science, Dr. Courtney Brown and the late Harvard Medical School Professor of psychiatry, Dr. John Edward Mack, who believed that we must become "galactic citizens". [15]

On March 10, 2007, Webre launched the Exopolitics Radio show hosted by 1480 KPHX. [16]

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  1. ^ “Berkeley 2002 Resolution Sweeps Through Canada”, Peace Journalism, May 23, 2005, <http://peacejournalism.com/ReadArticle.asp?ArticleID=2634> 
  2. ^ a b c d Khadilkar, Dhananjay. "He believes in UFOs. Do you?", Daily News & Analysis, February 17, 2007. Retrieved on 2007-03-27. 
  3. ^ a b Lumpur, Kuala. "Blair, Bush in 'war crimes trial'", BBC News, February 7, 2007. Retrieved on 2007-03-27. 
  4. ^ a b Alfred Webre. Jerry Pippin. Retrieved on 2007-03-23.
  5. ^ a b c d e f g h i j About the host. Exopolitics Radio. Retrieved on 2007-03-28.
  6. ^ About Dennis Kucinich. Retrieved on 2007-03-30.
  7. ^ a b Advisory Board. Retrieved on 2007-03-28.
  8. ^ a b Khadilkar, Dhananjay. "China missile test is justified", Daily News & Analysis, February 16, 2007. Retrieved on 2007-03-27. 
  9. ^ David, Leonard. "DO NOT PUBLISH: UFO Group Demands Congressional Hearing", Space.com, May 9, 2001. Retrieved on 2007-03-27. 
  10. ^ a b c d "Media Advisory: Earth Day Peace In Space", Scoop (news website), April 15, 2005. Retrieved on 2007-03-23. 
  11. ^ a b c “Peace Media pray for Peace and and it's Award”, Peace Journalism, May 14, 2005, <http://peacejournalism.com/ReadArticle.asp?ArticleID=2459> 
  12. ^ Co-op Radio CFRO 102.7FM. Retrieved on 2007-03-29.
  13. ^ "Colony or Country? on TV", Vive le Canada, March 22 2004. Retrieved on 2007-03-27. 
  14. ^ ICIS Board of Directors & Advisors. Retrieved on 2007-03-28.
  15. ^ Jenney, Kay. "UFO convention speaker says we must become 'galactic citizens'", Mohave Daily News, February 7, 2003. Retrieved on 2007-03-27. 
  16. ^ "Progressive Talk Phoenix 1480 AM, Nova M Network Launch 'Exopolitics Radio' Weekly Extraterrestrial Politics Talk Show", Yahoo News, March 13, 2007. Retrieved on 2007-03-23. 

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