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Talisman protesters enter live-fire area

Kieran Campbell | 13th July 2009

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FOUR protestors say they have entered the Shoalwater Bay Training Area this morning and are moving towards a live-fire area.

Their mission is to stop the Talisman Saber exercises, war games between Australian and US troops north of Yeppoon.

Calling themselves the "Bonhoeffer 4" after Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's favourite theologian, the group is made up of:
  • Margaret Pestorius, 44, a social worker from Cairns;
  • Jarrod McKenna, 28, a school peace educator from Perth;
  • Jessica Morrison, 33, a university lecturer from Melbourne; and,
  • Reverend Simon Moyle, 32, a Baptist Minister from Melbourne.

The non-violent Christian activists released a statement on Monday calling on "Australian and US forces to cease their involvement in the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and the undeclared war in Pakistan".

"We plan to be inside the area for as long as possible, and are well prepared for a long stay," the release says.

The protestors say they are putting their "bodies on the line in order to stop the US/Australian Talisman Sabert Military Exercise and jam a spoke in the wheel of war".

"These exercises are implicated in killing and injuring our sister and brothers in Afghanistan and Pakistan, including untold numbers of civilians.

"This 'war without end', as George Bush put it, has no exit strategy and no end in sight.

"We will not overcome the violent terrorism of the poor with the violent terrorism of the rich.".


 
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