Dear friends, You’ve probably heard the news by now – we have been found guilty by a jury of people who were clearly hesitant and divided about their decision. The jury took five hours to deliberate on what was essentially a clear cut case for them, so obviously there was some debate amongst them . […]

Today started with our last procession to court and our last session of singing and inspirational readings in the park across the road. We were all in good spirits when we entered court and when we arrived in the courtroom I put an application for a permanent stay of the trial (meaning the trial would […]

Dear friends, Today (Tuesday) started off on its usual high note: a procession to the court, and today a special treat – hearing a recording of a Martin Luther King speech, then we four walked into the courthouse to the supporters group singing (as they do every morning) “oh when the Saints, go marching in, […]

Dear friends, After two weeks of trial, we now head into week three…phew! On the weekend we had to say goodbye to about half of our supporters who thought the trial would have finished by now. Just to let you all know – our supporters have staffed an information stall in Alice Springs mall every […]

Dear friends, Today the Commonwealth pulled another rabbit out of its hat full of restrictions to truth, free speech and indeed a fair trial. Today’s rabbit was called Parliamentary Privilege. Yes, I know what you’re thinking – Parlimentary Privilege exists to protect members of Parliament from litigation when they make statements and allegations in Parliament. […]

Dear friends Sorry I didn’t get to send a report last night, I wasn’t well yesterday and also had to think about my opening address, which could come on today. Yesterday’s proceedings bubbled along at a fast pace, still going through the prosecution”s witnesses. We are still trying to work out why Crown Prosecutor Dembo is taking the […]

Scandinavian countries are the most peaceful in the world and, perhaps not surprisingly, Iraq the most dangerous and violent, according to a new international league table published today. The UK is listed only 49th of the 121 countries surveyed, with the US at 96. [Australia is at 25.] http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,2091513,00.html

Dear friends, below is an update sent to media about Friday’s proceedings… It was a long, hard day – including a two and a half hour presentation by Byran! As well as presentations by Adele and Donna. We all put our arguments against Public Interest Immunity as best we could, assuring the court our line of questioning would […]

Dear friends, Today (Thursday) was a mixed day at court. It started with our cross-examination of the prosecution’s first witness, Mike Burgess, the Australian head of Pine Gap. Bryan started a line of questioning which started to reveal some interesting facts about which American and Australian security and intelligence agencies were present at Pine Gap, […]

Dear friends, We all enjoyed a successful first (official) day of the trial, with the jury selection process over by 11.30am and the prosecution then starting its opening address. I’ll sum up the tone of the prosecution’s case with some quotes from our entertaining friend, Crown Prosecutor, Hilton Dembo: “One cannot take the law into […]

Dear friends Tuesday: Today the trial proceedings finally began (after a colourful procession to court with banners and singing) with some house-keeping, including an attempt by the Crown Prosecutor, Mr Hilton Dembo, to place us under house arrest! Needless to say we argued back – and we won! He also argued that we not be […]

How Creative Mass Non-Violence Beat a Nuke and Launched The Global Green Power Movement Thirty years ago this month, in the small seacoast town of Seabrook, New Hampshire, a force of mass non-violent green advocacy collided with the nuke establishment. A definitive victory over corporate power was won. And the global grassroots “No Nukes” movement […]