Seattle, WA — Astronauts are always brave and billionaires always benevolent, if you believe their PR. But what’s really more important, colonizing the Moon or housing people? Putting a Tesla in orbit or studying global climate change? In a country that heaps undeserved tax breaks on CEOs, in a city with thousands of unhoused people sleeping on the streets, the morality of Seattle’s space-struck billionaires—and the system propping them up—requires examination. The Salish Sea Anti- Space Symposium (SSASS) i
With no organized resistance, or even serious questioning, America’s billionaires are racing to claim outer space for their own. This “land grab” of space inevitably puts corporate profits ahead of the fate of earth itself. The Salish Sea Anti-Space Symposium (SSASS) presents a weekend (July 19 - 21) of free events, both thoughtful and humorous, designed to provoke questions around the fervor of space conquest and ask what will happen once the 1% abandon the rest of us on an overheated earth?
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