Space Summit Protest Action
8.00am-9.00am
Tuesday 27 May 2025
Outside ICC 14 Darling Drive, Sydney.
There has been a call to ‘Keep Space for Peace’ at the beginning of the fourth Space Summit at Sydney’s International Convention Centre (ICC) beginning Tuesday 27 May.
Those concerned about the unprecedented role of satellite technology in targeted killings in Gaza and beyond are among those who are coming together for this event, coordinated by World BEYOND War Australia’s Liz Remmerswaal.
“US-NATO space tech is playing a leading role in the wars in Ukraine and the genocidal zionist war in Palestine,” she says.
“The twin infants killed along with their doctor mom in Gaza in August are believed to have been targeted by Israel using Google’s AI Project Numbus,” says Ms Remmerswaal.
She says the protest is a chance for those concerned to express in words, song and action our outrage that the final frontier is being colonised by the military.
“While people starve and are homeless in the country, taxes will be used to fund war-making in space,” she says.
The protest is jointly organised by veteran activist Denis Doherty from Anti Bases and Sydney Anti AUKUS coalition, as well as the World Citizens Association Australia.
“We know that Pine Gap, known locally as the ‘space base’ has been used in US-led conflicts since 1991. It has been targeting civilians in the wars against Iraq, Afghanistan, and facilitating drone attacks on villagers on the Pakistani border with Afghanistan,” says Mr Doherty.
“Currently, Pine Gap is being used to facilitate the massacre against Gaza and nearby countries on behalf of Israel. Space is currently a war fighting mechanism. We need to decouple space from the military,” says Mr Doherty.
“We advocate for the separation of military and defense interests from space activities. We aim to establish guidelines and agreements that promote the peaceful use of space for scientific, commercial, and humanitarian purposes. Australia is too close to the US and its Empire.”
Prominent people in Australia including a former Prime Minister, academics and Australian members of civil society movements have been campaigning for an end to the US – Australian alliance.
Recent polls of Australians have found a paltry 37% approval rating for the US. This alliance means that cities and towns in Australia will become nuclear targets in the event of a hot war with China.”
Mr Doherty says that the US that is leading us into using our resources for armaments and insisting that we increase military spending while the world’s and Australia’s needs are for more resources for climate change and better social services such as health, education and welfare.
“While we welcome Australian ingenuity and expertise being devoted to a new frontier space, we recoil at the automatic involvement of the military in this new and exciting frontier,” he says.
“As we need to remember, the first casualty of war is truth; the rest is mainly civilians”, says Ms Remmerswaal.
For more info see https://space4peace.org/ and worldbeyondwar.org
