Peace activists across the Pacific are speaking on an international webinar on Saturday 25th March at 6:00pm AEST. They include Cameron Leckie from Australia. The webinar has been arranged by the International Peace Bureau (IPB), with the assistance of the Pacific Peace Network.
Webinar is at 6:00pm AEST (7:00pm AEDT)
on Saturday 25th March.
Register here
Speakers:
Ann Wright – Ann Wright is a retired United States Army colonel and retired U.S. State Department official, known for her outspoken opposition to the Iraq War. She received the State Department Award for Heroism in 1997, after helping to evacuate several thousand people during the civil war in Sierra Leone. Currently based in Hawaii where she works on peace and disarmament campaigns. She is a council member of IPB.
Jun Chisaka: Secretary general, Japan Peace Committee and the Co-Chair of the Organizing Committee of the World Conference against A and H Bombs.
Japan Peace Committee leads a campaign against US Bases, military alliances and militarization in asia pacific, in Japan and Okinawa)
Theresa “Isa” Arriola was born and raised on the island of Saipan in the Northern Mariana Islands. She earned her PhD from the University of California at Los Angeles in sociocultural anthropology. Her research focuses on the socio-political implications of contemporary militarization throughout the Marianas archipelago and Oceania more broadly. She is currently an assistant professor in the Sociology and Anthropology Department at Concordia University where she teaches about militarism, Indigeneity and Oceania
Choi Sung-hee joins the struggle opposing the Jeju navy base and militarization of jeju. She also joins other struggles such as “No to the Jeju Second Airport (which is suspected to be an air force base)” and “No to the National Satellite Integrated Operation Center.” She has worked in the village international team. She also works for the Gangjeong Peace Network, Association of Gangjeong Villagers Against the Jeju Navy Base, People Making Jeju a Demilitarized Peace Island, and Inter-Island Solidarity for Peace. She is also a Korean board member of Global Network against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space. See savejejunow.org
Cameron Leckie – served in the Australian Army for 24 years, retiring with the rank of Major and deploying on three operations to East Timor, the Solomon Islands and Indonesia after the 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami. Over the course of his military career he gradually came to the conclusion that Australia’s defence and foreign policy was acting contrary to Australia’s interests. He hopes for an Australia that maintains peaceful relations with all nations and an independent foreign policy.