Vigil to protest the Talisman Sabre Exercise
From 19 June to 2 July Australia will host the biggest joint US-Australian military exercise on our soil. This exercise should be opposed because:
• Operation Talisman Sabre 07 war games will take place inside the environmentally pristine areas in central Queensland and the Northern Territory. They include parts of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park World Heritage area and other areas of national heritage and wilderness.
Shoalwater Bay is the largest wilderness area on the central Queensland coast. For two weeks the US and Australian military will pound the fragile coastline with live naval, land based and aerial bombings.
Other locations include Cowley Beach, part of World Heritage area that contains indigenous heritage sites; Delamere Range in Northern Territory within the catchment of Kakadu National Park wetlands.
• Operation Talisman Sabre 07 locks Australia into the US global military machine making us a major US base and a launching pad for US wars in the region and around the world. It undermines our sovereignty and overrides Australian peoples’ desire for peace. The exercises are not designed to defend Australia or protect its people. They are preparations for offensive military strategies and invasions. The growing militarisation of East Asia by the US threatens peace in our region.
• Australia’s spending on Operation Talisman Sabre 07 joint military exercise cuts spending on public health, education, welfare and the environment. There are no benefits to Australia and its people, only destruction of the environment and locking Australia into America’s wars of aggression.
• The people of Japan, South Korea and the Philippines are also mobilising to close down US military bases in their countries and end the escalation of joint military activities in the East Asia region and Oceania. The people of our region want peace, not preparations for military invasions.
More than 14,000 American and 12,000 Australian troops will take part in a military exercise Operation Talisman Sabre 07.
Peace Convergence is gathering a group of people to go to Shoalwater Bay in Queensland June 18-24 where a national gathering of peace activists will witness and protest.
They have asked Pax Christi and other concerned people to hold an action in Melbourne in support of their action in Queensland and to draw attention to Operation Talisman Sabre.
With the support of Christians for Peace, Pax Christi has decided to hold a vigil outside St Paul’s Cathedral in Swanson St, on Friday 15 June 4-7 p.m
We invite you to help and join the vigil.
Join us and tell the government we want peace, we want our taxes spent on education, health, environment and community services. We want the government to serve the interests of Australian people, not US militarism.
• Operation Talisman Sabre 07 war games will take place inside the environmentally pristine areas in central Queensland and the Northern Territory. They include parts of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park World Heritage area and other areas of national heritage and wilderness.
Shoalwater Bay is the largest wilderness area on the central Queensland coast. For two weeks the US and Australian military will pound the fragile coastline with live naval, land based and aerial bombings.
Other locations include Cowley Beach, part of World Heritage area that contains indigenous heritage sites; Delamere Range in Northern Territory within the catchment of Kakadu National Park wetlands.
• Operation Talisman Sabre 07 locks Australia into the US global military machine making us a major US base and a launching pad for US wars in the region and around the world. It undermines our sovereignty and overrides Australian peoples’ desire for peace. The exercises are not designed to defend Australia or protect its people. They are preparations for offensive military strategies and invasions. The growing militarisation of East Asia by the US threatens peace in our region.
• Australia’s spending on Operation Talisman Sabre 07 joint military exercise cuts spending on public health, education, welfare and the environment. There are no benefits to Australia and its people, only destruction of the environment and locking Australia into America’s wars of aggression.
• The people of Japan, South Korea and the Philippines are also mobilising to close down US military bases in their countries and end the escalation of joint military activities in the East Asia region and Oceania. The people of our region want peace, not preparations for military invasions.
More than 14,000 American and 12,000 Australian troops will take part in a military exercise Operation Talisman Sabre 07.
Peace Convergence is gathering a group of people to go to Shoalwater Bay in Queensland June 18-24 where a national gathering of peace activists will witness and protest.
They have asked Pax Christi and other concerned people to hold an action in Melbourne in support of their action in Queensland and to draw attention to Operation Talisman Sabre.
With the support of Christians for Peace, Pax Christi has decided to hold a vigil outside St Paul’s Cathedral in Swanson St, on Friday 15 June 4-7 p.m
We invite you to help and join the vigil.
Join us and tell the government we want peace, we want our taxes spent on education, health, environment and community services. We want the government to serve the interests of Australian people, not US militarism.
posted by Pax Christi @ Friday, June 08, 2007
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