Anti-Bases
Campaign
Welcome
to our home page...
The Waihopai
satellite spy station near
On April 30,
2008, three Ploughshares activists gained access to the base
and slashed one of the rubber protective domes
with a sickle.
The giant balloon deflated slowly and draped
over the satellite dish.
The rubber has since been removed and the dish
is is now exposed,
directed at
an Intelsat satellite and intercepting international communications.
WHAT IS THE ANTI-BASES CAMPAIGN (ABC)?
We are a Christchurch-based
group with links and members all over Aotearoa/New Zealand. We concentrate on
the foreign military and intelligence installations in
WHAT DOES THE ABC DO?
We engage in research, education, publication and direct
action. We have run campaigns on all these three installations, concentrating
on Harewood and Waihopai. Historically, we have organised actions such as the
1990 Touching the Bases Tour, in which people from
We have
campaigned and made submissions on all the
various pieces of legislation giving expanded powers to the spies, such as the
Terrorism Suppression Act, which takes NZ in the direction of a police State;
the Crimes Amendment No. 6 Act, which gives the Police, SIS and GCSB extended
powers of electronic spying; the GCSB Act, which entrenches this agency; and
the various SIS Amendment Acts, which extended the powers of the SIS and
exempted them from any legal action which may have arisen from the Choudry case having exposed their illegal actions dating
back decades. Ever since we first
discovered plans to build Waihopai, back in 1987, we have campaigned against
it, organising numerous non-violent direct action national demonstrations. We
research all aspects of these bases, specialising in Harewood and Waihopai, and
have developed an expertise in researching NZ and allied intelligence agencies.
We publish Peace
Researcher, an authoritative journal on
these subjects, and a record of our activities.
Sixty issues of Peace Researcher have been published since 1983.
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cafca@chch.planet.org.nz
Website updated and maintained by Yani Johanson