11:15am AFP Sheridan St/Airport Drive, Cairns, Friday Gimuy (Cairns) Peace Pilgrims will hold a “pop-up” concert outside the Australian Federal Police on Sheridan St at 11:15am on Friday. The Peace Pilgrims are protesting to expose the AFP for providing training and weapons, free of charge, to security forces in Indonesia. Those same forces are involved… [Read more] Media Release: Pop-up concert in Cairns – Protesting AFP’s training and arming of killer Militia in Indonesian West Papua
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#ReclaimArmisticeDay Social Media Support and Suggested Messaging
This Armistice Day, to remind people of the poets and artists, we’ve added a poetry page to the Wage Peace website. Poets point to a culture which values reflection. The military-industrial corporations do not want us to be reflective. When we have relationships and a reflective culture, we have life. And after the poetry you… [Read more] #ReclaimArmisticeDay Social Media Support and Suggested Messaging
Take Action on Arms Traders at the Invictus Games – #Disrupt2018
Action on the Invictus Games #IG2018 – #Disrupt2018 Reading Michelle Fahy below, on the insidious weapons industry, reminds us that Invictus is more than overcoming adversity for veterans. Increasing war and militarism is a much bigger danger. War is fuelled by the weapons manufacturers. The corporations require war. Their people are moving into Australian institutions:… [Read more] Take Action on Arms Traders at the Invictus Games – #Disrupt2018
The Frontier Wars Story Camp 2018 at the Aboriginal Tent Embassy
Graeme Dunstan veteran peace worker and cultural activist reports from the fourth annual Frontier Wars Story Camp. Australian’s cultural understanding of war is based on the silences and lies surrounding the frontier violence which occurred during settlement. Peace workers in Australia have been working for many years to challenge the way Anzac is conceptualised as… [Read more] The Frontier Wars Story Camp 2018 at the Aboriginal Tent Embassy
Public Destruction of the “Australian Military Sales Catalogue”
By symbolically destroying the Australian Military Sales Catalogue today, we demonstrate our opposition to the Government spending $3.8 billion our tax money to promote the manufacture and export of weapons of war, that only bring death and misery to overseas countries. The Government’s active promotion of weapons sales must stop. We demand that… [Read more] Public Destruction of the “Australian Military Sales Catalogue”
