Peace Convergence 2017 | Facebook

Peace Convergence 2017 | Facebook





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Stop the Exercises. Close the bases. End the wars.

Civil society against militarism in Australia...



The Peace Convergence started as a protest event established to show opposition to the continued Australian involvement in the US war machine as enacted through the biennial Talisman Saber Military Training exercises: rehearsals for aggressive war. Since the first Peace Convergence in 2005, Peace Convergences have been held at various sites used in or representative of the ongoing militarisation of Australia... our region - our world.



We oppose war and preparations for war; our concerns include the environmental, social and political costs in particular their role in the ongoing colonisation, nuclearisation and militarisation of Australia and the Pacific. 



War games in our region are the flamboyant representation of Austalia's close military ties to the USA, linking Australia to Indigenous Lands and seas in the Asia Pacific region used as military bases and military training areas [Okinawa, Guam] and as theatres of war [Afghanistan].



Talisman Saber Peace Convergences are held in Rockhampton and Yeppoon - near Shoalwater Bay on the centreal Queensland coast -part of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park and the focal point of US -AUS combined land-sea-air military training.



Talisman Saber 2017 is scheduled to take commence in June in the Northern Territory with live firing combined force training in Queensland at Shoalwater Bay from July 8-25.



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