Alfred Webre

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name = Alfred Lambremont Webre


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education = Yale University
Yale Law School
University of Texas at Brownsville
occupation = Author
Lawyer
Futurist
Peace Activist
Environmental Activist
Space Activist
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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. cite news | last =Khadilkar | first =Dhananjay | coauthors =| title =He believes in UFOs. Do you?| work =| pages =| language =| publisher =Daily News & Analysis | date =2007-02-17 | url =http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?NewsID=1080571 | accessdate =2007-03-27 ] cite news | last =Lumpur | first =Kuala | coauthors =| title =Blair, Bush in 'war crimes trial'| work =| pages =| language =| publisher =BBC News | date =2007-02-07 | url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6336333.stm | accessdate =2007-03-27 ] cite web |url=http://www.jerrypippin.com/UFO_Files_alfred_webre.htm |title=Alfred Webre |publisher=Jerry Pippin |accessdate=2007-03-23 |format= |work= ] cite web| last =| first =| authorlink =| coauthors =| title =About the host| work = | publisher =Exopolitics Radio | date =| url =http://www.exopoliticsradio.com/host.html | format =| doi = |accessdate =2007-03-28] 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. [cite web |url=http://www.peaceinspace.com/ab_kucinich.shtml |title= About Dennis Kucinich |accessdate=2007-03-30 |format= |work= ] cite web |url=http://www.exopoliticsinstitute.org/advisory-board-PP&M.htm#Webre |title=Advisory Board |accessdate=2007-03-28 |format= |work= ] cite news | last =Khadilkar | first =Dhananjay | coauthors =| title =China missile test is justified| work =| pages =| language =| publisher =Daily News & Analysis | date =2007-02-16 | url=http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?NewsID=1080422 | accessdate =2007-03-27 ] 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 , is the congressional coordinator for The Disclosure Project [cite news | last =David | first =Leonard | coauthors = | title =DO NOT PUBLISH: UFO Group Demands Congressional Hearing | work = | pages = | language = | publisher =Space.com | date =2001-05-09 | url =http://www.space.com/searchforlife/UFO_hearings_010509.html | accessdate =2007-03-27] , is a judge on the Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal , and is the International Director of the Institute for Cooperation in Space.

Biography

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. 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. In 1993, he entered the University of Texas at Brownsville and graduated with a Master of Education in Counseling in 1997.

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. cite news | last = | first = | coauthors = | title =Media Advisory: Earth Day Peace In Space | work = | pages = | language = | publisher =Scoop (news website) | date =2005-04-15 | url =http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0504/S00251.htm | accessdate =2007-03-23] 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. 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. His responsibilities were the studies in alternative futures, innovation diffusion, and social policy applications for clients including the Carter White House Extraterrestrial Communications Study , the National Science Foundation, U.S. Congress (Office of Technology Assessment), the U.S. Department of Energy, and the State of California (Energy Plan).

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. 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. Citation | last = | first = | author-link = | last2 = | first2 = | author2-link = | title =Peace Media pray for Peace and it's Award | newspaper =Peace Journalism | pages = | year =2005 | date =May 14, 2005 | url = http://peacejournalism.com/ReadArticle.asp?ArticleID=2459] 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. [cite web |url=http://www.coopradio.org/guide/monday.html |title=Co-op Radio CFRO 102.7FM |accessdate=2007-03-29 |format= |work= ] He is a founding director of Canada's No Weapons in Space Campaign (NOWIS) established in 2002. In 2004, he created the [http://www.peaceinspace.org/ 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. [cite news | last =| first =| coauthors = | title =Colony or Country? on TV | work = | pages = | language = | publisher =Vive le Canada | date =2004-03-22 | url =http://www.vivelecanada.ca/article.php?story=20040322143245894 | accessdate =2007-03-27] On March 14, 2005 Webre joined the editorial and advisory team for Peace Media. 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.

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. [cite web |url=http://www.peaceinspace.com/ab_board.shtml |title= ICIS Board of Directors & Advisors |accessdate=2007-03-28 |format= |work= ]

Exopolitics

After a lifetime of experiences, research and interactions with key players, Webre believes that there is intelligent extraterrestrial life in our Universe. 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. 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.

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". [cite news | last =Jenney | first =Kay | coauthors =| title =UFO convention speaker says we must become 'galactic citizens' | work = | pages = | language = | publisher =Mohave Daily News| date =2003-02-07 | url =http://www.mohavedailynews.com/articles/2003/02/08/news/export5225.txt| accessdate =2007-03-27]

On March 10, 2007, Webre launched the Exopolitics Radio program, hosted by 1480 KPHX (the Air America Radio affiliate, and Nova M Radio flagship station, in Phoenix) until the summer of 2008; the program remains in production and is currently distributed via podcast and webcast on its own website, several other podcasting sites and other traditional radio outlets. Guests on the program are generally advocates of views similar to that of Webre, and many are well known within the UFO research/enthusiast (and to a lesser extent the New Age) community. [cite news | last = | first = | coauthors = | title =Progressive Talk Phoenix 1480 AM, Nova M Network Launch 'Exopolitics Radio' Weekly Extraterrestrial Politics Talk Show | work = | pages = | language = | publisher =Yahoo News | date =2007-03-13 | url =http://news.yahoo.com/s/prweb/20070313/bs_prweb/prweb510819_3 | accessdate =2007-03-23]

Media

Books

* ISBN 978-0-97-376630-1 Exopolitics: Politics, Government, and Law in the Universe
* ISBN 978-0-96-944590-6 The Levesque Cases

Videos

* [http://safespaceproject.com/ Safespace] - [http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5289580745541909957 Fastwalkers] - Winter 2006
* [http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8831431163473625303&q=Alfred+Webre&total=52&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0 Star Dreams Initiative] - Victoria, British Columbia, Canada - May 2006

Audio

Radio Shows

* [http://www.exopoliticsradio.com/home.html Exopolitics Radio] - every Saturday at 11:00 p.m. (EST)
* [http://www.topcomp.ca/bb/ The Monday Brown Bagger] - every Monday at 3:00 p.m. (EST)
* [http://exopolitics.blogs.com/exopolitics_radio/ Peace on Earth Radio]

Radio Interviews

* [http://www.bloginservice.com/bbc/streams/wma/As_You_Wish_5-20-06.wma As You Wish] - May 20, 2006
* Binnall of America - [http://www.binnallofamericaaudio.com/mp3s/BOAA114A.mp3 Part 1] and [http://www.binnallofamericaaudio.com/mp3s/BOAA114B.mp3 Part 2] - December 17, 2005
* [http://www.kconlineradio.com/jwr/jwr_webre_kcor.mp3 Journeys With Rebecca] - August 29, 2005
* [http://www.jerrypippin.com/audio/Alfred%20Webre%20Interview%20(04-23-05).wma Jerry Pippin] - April 23, 2005
* [http://www.jerrypippin.com/audio/Alfred%20Webre%20Interview%20(03-05).wma Jerry Pippin] - March 1, 2005

References

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