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Waihopai Ploughshares trial begins in New Zealand

Sat 13 Mar 2010
By Flowerpower

Almost two years after they took direct action against the US spy base at Waihopai, near Blenheim, three peace activists are standing trial in Wellington's High Court.

Peter Garrett: 'beds are burning' protest - Melbourne 12 November 09

Thu 12 Nov 2009
By peter

The Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts was in town to deliver a speech on energy saving, but environmentalists staged a welcome designed to remind him of speeches he delivered before he joined the ALP, in the days when he vigourously and vocally opposed policies he now defends ...

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Breaking the Australian silence - Sydney Peace Prize awarded to John Pilger

Sun 08 Nov 2009
By takver

John Pilger
The Sydney Peace Prize for 2009 was awarded to Australian journalist and author John Pilger. He delivered his acceptance speech at the Sydney Opera House on Thursday 5 November. The prize citation reads: "For work as an author, film-maker and journalist as well as for courage as a foreign and war correspondent in enabling the voices of the powerless to be heard. For commitment to peace with justice by exposing and holding governments to account for human rights abuses and for fearless challenges to censorship in any form."

Related: War is Peace - Pilger on Obama

C2C Festival Report

Wed 08 Jul 2009
By kimk

The C2C Festival was a gem of an event; small but glittering in its beauty and goodwill.

The crowd was never bigger that 300 but oh, what a beautiful feeling. It lost money but built confidence amongst the young organisers who all worked so well together under Renton Bishopric's leadership

Catholic workers to resist military excercise & Af/Pak war

Fri 03 Jul 2009
By fightfirewithwater09

Talisman Sabre 09 is a biennial exercise that involves 20,000 U.S. & 7,000 Australian troops, fighter jets and warships, it is taking place in July in central Queensland, Australia.
Australian complicity in the U.S. war on the people of Afghanistan and Pakistan includes the present deployment of 600 Australian (SAS, Special Ops and infantry) troops in Afghanistan, detention in Australia of Afghani refugees fleeing the war and daily targeting information for U.S. bombardment coming from the U.S. N.S.A Pine Gap near outback Alice Springs.

Related: Peace Convergence | Peace Convergence Program | War games threaten Migaloo the white whale | The Dangers of War Games | Defence Dept - Talisman Sabre 09

4,000 sex-crazed drug-addled US troops to descend on Cairns

Sun 28 Jun 2009
By kimk

Where US troops go, sexual assaults and drug charges follow. Look out Cairns!

Around the world, in the Philippines, Japan and many other locations, US bases have become the centre of major social problems. The Governor of Okinawa has said the US bases on his island brought a major increase in levels of prostitution, drugs, alcoholism, rape, sexually transmitted diseases, and abuse of women and children.

The Australian experience is similar.

An Anglican Church report from Hobart details frequent sexual assaults on juvenile men and women by US service people.

Indian students rally for peace

Sun 07 Jun 2009
By Anonymous

On the last Sunday of May, hundreds of Indian students and supporters gathered in front of the Royal Melbourne Hospital for a peace rally urging the Victorian Government to take action to stop violence against Indian students. The rally was called by the Federation of Indian Students Association (FISA), following another violent attack on Indian students on Friday night where 5 Indian men were injured, one man was left fighting for his life from stab wounds.

Brisbane war games organising picks up to defend pristine coastal environment

Mon 04 May 2009
By kimk

Peace activists organising to oppose the bi-annual Talisman Saber US-Aust joint war games are stepping up activities in the lead up to the event in early July. The Peace Convergence is calling for peace action to take place throughout the war games and in various locations in the Shoalwater region, Brisbane, and around Australia.

The TS09 war games will see about 30,000 US and Australian troops descend on the unparallelled seaside habitat of dugong, green sea turtles and humpback whales. They will be practicing bombing, landing and raiding at Shoalwater Bay in Central Queensland (just north of Rockhampton) and in the NT for this year’s Australia-US Joint Military Exercises - Operation Talisman Saber 2009 scheduled for JULY 6 – 26.

A world without nuclear weapons is possible

Mon 06 Apr 2009
By takver

In Prague today before a 20,000 strong crowd US President Obama called for a world without nuclear weapons. There are currently 26,000 nuclear weapons held amoung nine countries. At the Palm Sunday rally in Melbourne Dr Ruth Mitchell from the Medical Association for the Prevention of War spoke detailing the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) and the need to keep the pressure on politicians and Governments on this issue. (Photos 1 | Melbourne Protests Photos | Youtube Video )

President Obama told the large crowd in Prague "I state clearly and with conviction America's commitment to seek the peace and security of a world without nuclear weapons. This goal will not be reached quickly -- perhaps not in my lifetime. It will take patience and persistence. But now we, too, must ignore the voices who tell us that the world cannot change."

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