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.
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