Anti-Bases Campaign
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Waihopai - a satellite spy base near Blenheim in the South Island
of Aotearoa/New Zealand. The base is an integral part of the international
intelligence network run by the US National Security Agency (NSA)..
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 New Zealand. There are three - the US "Deep
Freeze" military base at Harewood
(Christchurch Airport); and the "NZ" intelligence gathering
installations at Tangimoana (Manawatu) and Waihopai (Marlborough), which are simply outposts of
American Intelligence. We have specific demands on all three – that Harewood be
demilitarised; and the others closed ASAP. We demand the abolition of the NZ
Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB), which operates Waihopai and
Tangimoana. We have built up information on the whole gamut of the ongoing
US-NZ military and intelligence relationship.
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 New Zealand and throughout the Asia/Pacific
region visited all three bases. In the past, we have sent representatives to
actions in Australia, the Philippines and the US. We have hosted overseas
experts here, most recently Canadian ex-spy, Mike Frost,
in 2001. We actively network with a wide range of groups.
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.
Currently we are organising the Easter 2005 weekend
of activities against spies and spybases in Wellington.
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