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AUSTRALIA - Ploughshares action on Australian Army Tiger Attack Helicopter

category international | anti-war / imperialism | news report author Thursday July 21, 2011 16:45author by Plowshares Report this post to the editors

....at "Operation Talisman Sabre" Joint U.S./Australian Military Exercises.


You Tube Video– WIN NEWS – see the ACTUAL ACTION watch
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VpFaKoK9kE

SEND SOLIDARITY MAIL for redirection individually
to Australian peace prisoners
Bryan Law and Graeme Dunstan
c/-Catholic Worker
2705 Mt. Mee Rd
Ocean View,
Q. 4521
Australia

* SolidarIty emails to
bryan AT cairnspeacebypeace.org

AUSTRALIA - Ploughshares action on Australiam Army Tiger Attack Helicopter at "Operation Talisman Sabre" Joint U.S./Australian Military Exercises.

You Tube Video– WIN NEWS – see the ACTUAL ACTION watch
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VpFaKoK9kE

ABC Report
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-07-21/man-attacks-army-...04308

Reports are coming in of a ploughshares action in Australia on a Tiger attack helicopter
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurocopter_Tiger
presently participating in "Operation Talisman Sabre" joint U.S./ Austraian military exercises taking place near Rockhampton, central Queensland.
Tiger helicopters have been used by French forces in the war on Afghanistan.
Australian Tiger helicopters are based at Robertson Barracks, near Darwin.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robertson_Barracks
Australian forces continue to wage war in Afghanistan. Operation Talisman Sabre exercises are geared around interventionary warfare scenarios.

Catholic peace activist Bryan Law, from Cairns cut the security fence, then made his way to the Australian army military helicopter by means of riding a large tricycle, he then used a garden mattock to begin the disarmament of the attack helicopter. Longtime peace activist Graeme Dunstan has also been arrested and charged following the action.

Law had previously been arrested a few weeks ago under the Aviation Act for "threteaning" to undertake this action. He has broken those bail conditions so is likely to remain in custody until trial.
See this youtube
http://www.youtube.com/user/nonVbryla%20#p/u/6/XxcLUN2VYBA

Bryan Law is a long time nonviolent anti-war activist from Queensland. He is married with one child and lives in Cairns, north Queensland. He was one of the Pine Gap 6 who carried out an inspection of the secretive NSA warfighting base near Alice Springs a number of years ago.

Bryan Law and Graeme Dunstan have both been charged with 4 and 5 offenses respectively. Will face court tomorrow.

3 Wilful Trespass [different Commonwealth Acts]

1 Possession of Tainted Property

1 Breaking Bail [Bryan]

We ask for your prayers that much good will come.

And above all, we hope that others will find ways of directly resisting this permanent state of war that Australia finds itself in.

****This is Bryan Law's blog with reflections eading up to his ploughshares action
http://www.cairnspeacebypeace.org

For further updates and information email

bryan AT cairnspeacebypeace.org

Related Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VpFaKoK9kE

 #   Title   Author   Date 
   YOUTUBE (2 mins) Bryan Law & Graeme Dunstan Charged - Choppers Moved, Prime Minister Comments     Resisters Charged Choppers Moved    Mon Jul 25, 2011 11:59 
   Exploding Dunny on Runway of Talsiman Sabre     Exploding Dunny!!!    Tue Jul 26, 2011 08:45 
   Maybe...     opus diablos    Tue Jul 26, 2011 10:16 
   YOUTUBE(8 mins)-Police Interview with Bryan Law, Helicopter Gunship Ploughshares     cop audio    Thu Jul 28, 2011 10:33 
   from Bryan Law, living in Cairns awaiting trial in Rocky     from Bryan Law, living in Cairns awaiting trial in Rocky    Tue Nov 29, 2011 15:28 
   Rocky Tiger (Attack Helicopter) Ploughshares front Court in Australia     2 Front Court Rocky    Sat May 12, 2012 08:52 
   R.I.P. Bryan Law has passed away, while awaiting ploughshares trial for disarmament of attack helicopter     Ciaron O'Reilly    Wed Apr 03, 2013 10:23 
   condolences from another pacifist     fred    Wed Apr 03, 2013 19:45 


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