Peace Crimes: Pine Gap, national security and dissent
At the closely guarded and secretive military facility, Pine Gap in Australia's Northern Territory, police arrest six nonviolent activists. Their crime- to step through a fence, lamenting and praying for the dead of war. They call themselves Peace Pilgrims. The Crown calls them a threat to national security and demands gaol time. Their political trials, under harsh Cold War legislation, tell a story of obsessive Australian secrecy about the American military presence on our soil and the state's…
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- Full title :Peace Crimes : Pine Gap, national security and dissent / Kieran Finnane.
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At the closely guarded and secretive military facility, Pine Gap in Australia's Northern Territory, police arrest six nonviolent activists. Their crime- to step through a fence, lamenting and praying for the dead of war. They call themselves Peace Pilgrims. The Crown calls them a threat to national security and demands gaol time. Their political trials, under harsh Cold War legislation, tell a story of obsessive Australian secrecy about the American military presence on our soil and the state's hardline response to dissent. In Peace Crimes, Alice Springs journalist Kieran Finnane gives a gripping account of what prompts the Pilgrims to risk so much, interweaving local events and their legal aftermath with this century's disturbing themes of international conflict and high-tech war. She asks, what responsibilities do we have as Australians for the covert military operations of Pine Gap and what are we going to do about them?
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- Publication Date:©2020
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):University of Queensland Press
- Place of Publication:St Lucia, Queensland
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2020
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- Description:1 online resource
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780702262234, 0702262234, 9780702262227, 0702262226
- oclc:on1179395150
- LC Classification:UA26.A8
- Dewey Decimal:335.70994
Table of Contents
Seeing, not seeing -- In the dark -- Trespass -- Lament -- The law -- Ends and means -- The sacred -- A reckless act of prayer -- Nothing to see here -- Ordinary or extraordinary? -- Conscience versus reason -- Fields of action.
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