Week of Actions to Close Pine Gap
The week long convergence at the gates of the Pine Gap US Military Spy Base south of Alice Springs continues to build, with several actions planned over the coming days leading up to a mass action on Friday at the gates of the facility. Pine Gap is one of the largest...
Activists from Okinawa and Guam join IPAN Conference and protests at Pine Gap
“Just when will Australians realise that the Pine Gap military installation does not serve our national interests?” asks Nick Deane from the Independent and Peaceful Australia Network (IPAN). “This facility, largely run by and for the US makes Australia an...
Anti-Militarism Demonstrators Blockade Swan Island Military Base
For the second consecutive day, peace activist group Swan Island Peace Convergence (SIPC) are successfully blockading the only road onto the secretive military base at Swan Island in Victoria. SIPC Members in front of the military base yesterday. Photo: SIPC ...
Pine Gap: 50 years as Australia’s prime nuclear target
ICAN Australia 26 September - 2 October 2016: A week of activities will expose the role of Pine Gap in war, surveillance and nuclear targeting. Beginning today, on the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons, hundreds of people are gathering at...
Quaker grannies blockade road to pine gap with breakfast spread at dawn
Three ‘Quaker Grannies for peace’ have set up breakfast on the road to Pine Gap and are inviting military personnel to sit down with them and negotiate. Dawn Joyce, Helen Bayes and Peri Coleman this morning before setting up breakfast to share. Photo: Glenn Todd The...
Drone warfare role at Pine Gap – Time to Reassess?
The need to close the drone warfare program at the Pine Gap Joint Facility near Alice Springs will be debated at the Independent and Peaceful Australia Network annual conference in Alice Springs next week. Alex Edney-Browne, a researcher on drone warfare at the...
Alice Springs to celebrate UN International Peace Day with prayer and a street name change
Resident peace activists will be joined by visiting peace activists who have arrived in town for the Alice Springs Peace Convergence in a circle of peace witness, conversation and prayer to mark 2016 UN International Day of Peace 9:30am Thursday 22 September 2016 on...
Healing Camp Opens
Healing Camp to #ClosePineGap has opened with over 30 people starting the camp. Join the many people who are heading to the camp ... For more details see:...
Filipinos support Australian peaceful independence
On the 25th year of the Filipino people’s rejection of a new United States Bases Treaty with the Philippines, demonstrators led by BAYAN (New Patriotic Alliance) held a protest action near the US Embassy to call for the abrogation of all military treaties and...
Peace President Obama dispatcher of drones killing innocents
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