APEC 2007 Sydney

A peaceful protest rally, organised by the Stop Bush Coalition, is planned for Sydney, commencing at Sydney Town Hall, 10am Saturday 8th September. We are opposed to the use of violence as a means of achieving political objectives. We believe that conflict resolution cannot be achieved by waging war. Therefore we are opposed to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and urge for the immediate withdrawal of our troops. For these reasons Peaceful People Power Australia strongly supports the peaceful protest rally planned for September 8.

We will have observers present, armed with video cameras. We will be capturing video of any violent action observed. We will not discriminate. Police, troops, spooks, protesters... anyone observed conducting themselves in a violent manner will be videoed.

With regard to video obtained of protesters behaving badly, we do not intend to release such video to police or the media. The sole purpose of obtaining such video is to support our future negotiations with activist groups about how protester violence undermines the credibility and integrity of peaceful protests .

With regard to video obtained of police, troops, spooks, etc, behaving badly, we intend to make such video available to the victims, their legal representatives, and activist groups committed to nonviolence.

We hope this clarifies questions regarding our agenda and intentions. If you have further questions please email us.

We need as many observers as possible, so, if you have a camcorder and are willing to act as an observer, please contact us immediately.

Update: We are not taking on any more video observers because of time constraints to do with the need for briefing and training of observers prior to APEC.