Building a movement: some lessons from Swan Island • Waging Nonviolence

Building a movement: some lessons from Swan Island • Waging Nonviolence

Over the last year and a small group of antiwar activists from Melbourne have been escalating our nonviolent resistance to the war in Afghanistan, focussing on the Swan Island Military Base off Queenscliff, Victoria. Australia has 1550 troops in Afghanistan; most are involved in mentoring and training Afghan National Army, but approximately 350 are the […]