"We’re not going to stop it in time by just protesting . . ."

"We’re not going to stop it in time by just protesting . . ."

Scary stuff, but important to be discussing, as we did, at the Redwood Sequoia Congress in Berkeley, a 2-day forum entitled, "Democracy or Empire?"

First, the good stuff.

Sherri Glaser (who performed an excerpt from "Oh My Goddess") & Country Joe McDonald (who sang the 60s anti-war songs) were excellent! Someone called it a "Happening," if I have that right, and "a jewel." Wheeler Hall was jammed with people, lots of grey ponytails in the audience, rapid signing of cards to congresspeople against war in Iraq, and many questions of Congressman Kucinich after he presented his speech on peace.

Why am I bothering to write about a CONGRESSperson on Indymedia? Because the important thing about Kucinich (aside from his being a buddhist, a vegan, and looking curiously similar to a member of Devo) is his "Space Preservation Act" – a ban on the basing of weapons in space and the use of weapons against objects in space in orbit.

It’s a pretty big deal given that the US is now unchallenged as the world’s superpower and the plans to control space are far sooner than we think, as I learned this weekend. The Kucinch plan is to promote this preservation act (bill and treaty) from the grassroots level up: the Berkeley City Council signed their own "Resolution Against Weaponization of Space" just in time for Kucinich’s visit, which declares the area of space directly above Berkeley, beyond some number of kilometers high, a "weapons free zone." It’s bizarre – some wedge of space above Berkeley being declared off limits to weapons – but this is how we’ll have to deal with the current regime in power, one city council at a time. Enforcement? Well, of course, but we have to start somewhere. Over 150 countries have already shown a strong interest and the idea has only been around since early 2002.

Carol Rosin (speaking in the video) states that space is already militarized, and - since there is essentially no way to stop it now - we need to work to promote it as a sort of ‘development’ of space, rather than weaponization – i.e., space habitats, schools, hospitals, but NOT weapons. "Vision 2020" appears to be a plan to dominate and control space (info on the document at http://www.dtic.mil/jv2020/). Just saying the military can’t be in space won’t work – they’re already there. So this bill and treaty are a start.

The other info I heard at the Sequoia Congress was also scary, to say the least. Items discussed included: The Northwoods Document, HAARP, chemtrails, Eschelon, Project Pandora, you name it! One panelist was talking about a 1999 US News & World Report story that quoted someone saying, essentially, that, "It may take a Pearl Harboresque attack on a space satellite for entry of the Pentagon into space to really begin . . ."

And this was just Sunday . . .

There are videos at http://www.peacceinspace.com.