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Wednesday, 23 January 2008 |
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On November 24 2007 Australians elected an ALP government led by Kevin Rudd. That government promised to withdraw Australian combat troops from Iraq by June 30 this year. However Australian troops will continue to provide training and diplomatic security services in Iraq.
The ALP government also fully supports the continued use of intelligence collected by Pine Gap for use in the war in Iraq. The contribution of Pine Gap to targetting, communication and control in the Iraqi battlefield is by far the most vital contribution Australia makes to this illegal, immoral, futile and disgusting war.
Following its successful Citizens' Inspection of Pine Gap in December 2005, Christians Against ALL Terrorism are planning to return to Pine Gap and once more enter the top secret Technical Area on ANZAC Day (April 25) 2008.
As in 2005, the NVDA has started with a letter I wrote to the Australian Minister for Defence - now Joel Fitzgibbon. Read on for links to this letter, and to other quality information about Pine Gap, its role in the Iraq/global war, and about the global nonviolent resistance to war.
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Saturday, 13 May 2006 |
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Welcome to the website for Peace by Peace - a small group practising community development and direct action.
We are a group of Cairns people who came together in January 2002 to explore nonviolent responses to terrorism, and to deter or mitigate the military response we could see being mobilized all around us. This site records our thinking and our actions as we work to promote “peace and justice is the real alternative to war and terror”. Feel free to look around.
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