Peace Crimes : Pine Gap, National Security and Dissent Paperback / softback
by Kieran Finnane
Paperback / softback
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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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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:1 pages
- Publisher:University of Queensland Press
- Publication Date:04/08/2020
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- ISBN:9780702260445
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:1 pages
- Publisher:University of Queensland Press
- Publication Date:04/08/2020
- Category:
- ISBN:9780702260445