Protest outside Maine Space confab

A dozen folks joined our protest outside the Holiday Inn by the Bay in Portland, Maine yesterday as we protested the 2nd Annual Maine Space Conference.

Behind us, in the photo above, are the windows to the hotel lobby so many conference attendees saw us as well as those coming in and out of the hotel during our two hour vigil.

Mary Beth spoke using our bullhorn about how the US aids Israeli attacks on Gaza and Lebanon by sharing US space recon and surveillance info for targeting purposes.

I gave the general history (as I know it from the early 1980's to the present) about the US campaign to 'control and dominate space' on behalf of corporate globalization.

The sound was bouncing off the hotel walls and the large buildings on the other side of the street so I am quite certain than inside the hotel they were hearing the racket we were making on the outside.

(I noticed one young man across the street sat on the grass and listened to my entire rap.)

Big plans are underway in Maine to test hypersonic missiles, produce and launch dual use satellites (military/civilian) in order to fill up already congested and contested LEO (Lower Earth Orbit) and much more. The newly created US Space Force (in 2020) is currently funding bluShift Aerospace (based here in Brunswick) to build rockets to launch these mini-satellites into LEO.

The aerospace industry is making a play to set their teeth into as many state economies across the US and in allied nations around the world as possible (South Korea, UK, New Zealand, Australia, Japan, etc) in order to overwhelm China and Russia in the coming battle to be the 'Master of Space'.

The aerospace industry has long bragged that 'Star Wars' will be the largest industrial project in the history of Earth. The industry publication Space News reported years ago that they needed a 'dedicated funding source' to pay for all of their space plans. They wrote they were sending their lobbyists to Washington to secure this funding source and called it the 'entitlement programs' which officially are Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and what is left of the tattered welfare programs. 

Thus if we wish to beat the militarization, weaponization and nuclearization of space we must also fight to defend social progress, environmental care and the like. 

We will continue to build opposition to the new space arms race here in Maine and beyond.

The Global Network Against Weapons &  Nuclear Power in Space (founded in 1992) is entrusted with this mission to keep space for peace.

We invite you to help us in any way you can.

Bruce