Peace Crimes: Pine Gap, National Security and Dissent (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780702260445)

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?

Author: Kieran Finnane
ISBN-10: 0702260444
ISBN-13: 9780702260445
Publisher: University of Queensland Pr (Australia)
Language: English
Published: 11/04/2020
Pages: 296
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.90d