When was the last time you heard a peace song on the radio? It is virtually impossible to get these types of songs on the air. People like Pete Seeger, Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Phil Ochs etc. would never be heard today. The vast majority of radio stations today are owned by corporate media giants like Clear Channel and these wonderful artist would never make it onto today’s play lists.
Merrimack Valley
Raytheon, Missile Offense & Endless War: 19th Annual Space Organizing Conference
Submitted by ujpadmin1 on Fri, 06/17/2011 - 8:07am.
When: Friday, June 17, 2011, 5:00 pm
to Sunday, June 19, 2011, 5:00 pm
Where: Merrimack College • 315 Turnpike Street • Cachcia Hall • North Andover
2011 Jun 17 - 5:00pm
2011 Jun 19 - 5:00pm
Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power In Space
2011 marks the 19th anniversary of the Global Network’s organizing efforts to build an international constitutency to Keep Space for Peace. Each year we gather to share the latest international developments on Pentagon and aerospace industry plans for the militarization of space.
We approach this conference with clarity that U.S. “missile defense” programs are actually key elements in overall Pentagon first-strike planning. Thus we have come to call them “missile offense” systems as they are intended to take out any retaliatory capability after a U.S. attack. Sold to the public as defense, these systems create more instability after their deployment.
The Raytheon Company, which had 2009 sales of $25 billion, is a leading builder and promoter of the missile “offense” program. Headquartered in Massachusetts, Raytheon has a manufacturing plant in Andover that builds the Patriot (PAC-3) system that is now being used by the Pentagon to help encircle Russia and China.
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Declaration of Global Network 19th Annual Conference
Submitted by ujpadmin1 on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 11:17am.At a time when the Obama Administration would like to stress its adherence to a more multilateral National Space Policy, the members of Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space remind us that the real global situation in space militarization should still be disturbing, when we see the real-world plans of the U.S., its NATO allies, and industrial nations worldwide. Even as the four years of an unprecedented recession have cut into commercial space enterprises, military budgets continue unabated, and are approaching $1 trillion annually in the U.S. The knee-jerk air-assault responses to the Libya crisis, followed by the SEAL assault on the Bin Laden compound in Pakistan, show that even as citizens of the Middle East and Maghreb nations rise in largely nonviolent campaigns for change, the U.S. and its NATO allies respond with integrated air, sea, and ground assault campaigns that use the theaters of space in virtually every aspect of military strategy.
