WAGE PEACE BRIEFING
Many of us are concerned about Australian arms sales to the Saudis. But we want you to know that
1/ the US stopped fuelling Saudi war planes
2/ several European countries have stopped selling arms to the Saudis
3/ the Liberal party have dumped General Jim Molan – demoted to the bottom of the Senate ticket. YAY!!!
We would like to claim #PeakMilitarism – but we don’t think it’s quite so yet.
WAGE PEACE BRIEFING:
Arms sales and the export of #toxicSAS abuse: How are they linked?
Our guests are Darryl Bullen and Graeme Dunstan with Margie Pestorius
Join us (in an online Zoom meeting) Friday evening (RSVP Here)
Friday 14th December
6:00-7:30pm AEST, 5:00-6:30pm Qld time, 5:30-7:00 Central Australia time, 3:00-4:30pm WA time.
The #toxicSAS serving and alumni are currently known to be training in Indonesia, Marawi, UAE, Cambodia, and probably PNGThe briefing will cover the following
- The United Arab Emirates [UAE] are involved in arms deals with @cpyne defence minister
- The UAE are in Yemen embroiled in human rights abuses
- The head of the UAE special services is an Australian ex-#toxicSAS – a mercenary overseeing other mercenaries.
- The Australian parliament still has ex-#toxic SAS – Andrew Hastie MP – nominated for alleged abuses in Afghanistan.
- The Australian parliament has an ex-member of the Raytheon board Brigadier Linda Reynolds. Molan is gone! yay!
- Despite abusive practices the SAS are still regarded as heroes
- Despite little evidence of peace-success, there practices are being exported for sale.
Meanwhile
The #toxisSAS report is still not finalised. Assange is still abandoned despite over 25 Wikileaks actions that changed our whole view of how power operates.
- Who are #realheroes? Assange is the #realhero? They are #notHeroes? What is the #hashtag? :0
- Nonviolence and diplomacy are dead: where is the training in the practices of civil society?
- Looks like Coffey International is organising the mercenaries – Who are they? Where are they? They have a lovely webpage.
Then we will discuss
- What are our pathways to action? Social Media? Action?
- What dots need to be connected: key people with key events/sales/visits?
- How to connect with people who have good intel?
- How do we speak and write about these things?
- Who do we communicate to?
See you there!
Margaret Pestorius from #Wagepeace
Zoom
By phone: 02 8015 2088. They will prompt you for the meeting id 880746689
Video link is https://zoom.us/j/880746689
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