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The Anti-Bases Campaign has established its own Website, once again thanks to the good people at Converge. Melanie Thomson did the hard yards setting it up, before heading off for her Big OE, in London; Joe Davies has put in an enormous amount of work finishing it.

It’s a visual site , with splendid colour photos of the Waihopai spybase domes. It includes pages on:

* Waihopai, plus the other bases at Harewood and Tangimoana;

*a history of the ABC;

* the latest issue of "Peace Researcher";

* an upcoming events page (such as the October 2001 NZ speaking tour by Canadian ex-spy, Mike Frost);

* ABC submissions on various spy agency Bills;

* and an excellent selection of links to the Websites of kindred organisations and publications in Australia, Britain and the US.

Check it out. The address is:

http://www.converge.org.nz/abc

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