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- Yepoon parade Peace Convergence 2007
Preparations are being made for the fourth bi-annual Peace convergence in 2011.
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How We Gonna Do It? : Goals
Nonviolent Action: Intro to Direct Action
Come to Shoalwater/Rockhampton June-July2010
What Action? Which Tactic?
Many types of nonviolent actions are possible in this campaign.
The goal is to hinder the exercises so that they eventually cease completely – or perhaps transform into peace-making 
Three types of actions have been created in previous years [2005, 2007, 2009] in the Campaign to Stop Talisman Sabre Exercises.
1. Creative Protest actions designed to build knowledge of the exercises in the broader society and to build community and solidarity between those taking action.
2. 'Blockade' actions where troops or equipment are hindered from ordinary progress.
3. Shoalwater Trespass or Wilderness Pilgrimages involve walking and camping in the exercise area and hindering military activity from inside the boundary.
These types of actions have been expressed in extraordinarily broad and creative ways.
You and your group might use this Action Matrix to choose an action that suits your group and resources.
Use the Action Matrix with the Talisman Saber Campaign Map to decide a strategic focus point for your action
The Peace Convergence is a biannual peace protest held in various locations Australia wide. It's primary goal is to oppose the U.S.-Australian joint military excercises, Talisman Sabre. We believe that the excercises pose a risk to people and the environment, firmly entrench Australia in the U.S. regime of "preemptive" warfare and are not conducive to peace-making. More broadly, they are training Australians to die and kill in more U.S. led wars.
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