1999-2001
With the cry of “UFO to the people!” MIR’s ufologists challenge the institutions of reactionary and bourgeois ufology, bringing the class conflict where no earthling had ventured before. The antagonist network, finally freed by a planetary dimension, redraws the lines of a healthy internationalism by uniting its forces with those of alien dissidence.
“Between the late 1990s and the early 2000s, the political activism of the MIR reached its peak. In 1998, a delegation from the group carried out a demonstrative action during the VI World Symposium on Ufology held in San Marino. MIR militants occupied the conference room, displaying a banner with the slogan ‘Ufo al Popolo’ (UFO to the People), distributing flyers, and interrupting the conference” Vice
“The imperative “UFO to the people,” which denies anyone the control and simultaneously expresses the questionable concept that UFOs should be seen not as an end but rather as a mere means for the bourgeois, capitalist, and imperialist system, ultimately has its consistency and a logic to be acknowledged.” UFO il fattore contatto by Roberto Pinotti
“Their main concpetual innovation was exoplanetarism, defined as an openness to “autonomous contact” with an “absolute, unconditional, non-codified alterity” I Want to Believe Posadism, UFOs and Apocalypse Communism by A.M. Gittlitz
mirror website
guerrigliamarketing.it/mir
‘zine pdf
https://archive.org/details/MenInRed/mir-1/
press coverage
Wikipedia (IT) Ufologia radicale
EduEDA – The EDUcational Encyclopedia of Digital Arts (IT) Men in red
Cesnur (IT) Dagli astronauti autonomi ai Men In Red