TOWARD THE LIGHT
~ Sunday, 12 October 2008 ~
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. 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. 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, is a judge on the Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal, and is the International Director of the Institute for Cooperation in Space (ICIS).
Education
Webre entered Yale University in 1960 and graduated in 1964 with a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Administration Honours. 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 travelled 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 Counselling in 1997.
Early careerWebre 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. 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 Centre 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 careerWebre 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 Organisation (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. 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 Centre 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. 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 organisation 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. 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 SpaceAlfred 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.
ExopoliticsAfter 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 organised 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'.
On March 10, 2007, Webre launched the
Exopolitics Radio programme, hosted by 1480 KPHX (the Air America Radio affiliate, and Nova M Radio flagship station, in Phoenix) until the summer of 2008; the programme 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 programme 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.
