Media Release 5 February 2007 Prisoner Exchange - Howard for Hicks v Campaigners for the immediate release and repatriation of David Hicks will be offering the US ambassador a deal when they march from Parliament House to the US Embassy on Tuesday 6 February.Ê AÊprisoner exchange, Howard for Hicks. "With a resurrected Ned Kelly acting as police liaison, we intend taking Prime Minister John Howard, if not personally then performatively, to the gates of the US Embassy and handing him over," said one of rally organisers Peacebus.com captain, Graeme Dunstan. "We will be inviting the US military to hold him in chains in Guantanamo Bay as David has been for the past five years and take all the time in the world in formulating charges against Howard for his record of civil liberties abuses in this land and his abandonment of David Hicks," said Dunstan. "Fair deal, we reckon."Ê With buses coming from Sydney, the Hicks Canberra Convergence organisers are expecting a crowd of 500 or more. The rally will begin with a public forum starting 11 am on the lawns of Parliament House.Ê All elected representatives have been invited to come and speak to the rally about where they stand on the Hicks issue before they enter the House for the opening session of 2007. The acceptances include Greens Senator Kerry Nettle, Democrats Senators Natasha Stott Despoja & Andrew Bartlett; and ALP Senator Kate Lundy. When the Parliament assembles at 12.30 pm the rally will become a march to the US Embassy. The Canberra Convergence is being supported by Bring David Home & Justice for Hicks & Habib campaigns, Stop the War Coalition, Terry Hicks & Fair Go for David campaign; GetUp Action for Australia; Justice Action, ACTNOW, Civil Rights Defence and Peacebus.com. Further information Graeme Dunstan 0407 951 688 Marlene Obeid 0401 758 871 Raul Bassi on 0403 037 376 www.fairgofordavid.org www.stopwarcoalition.org www.peacebus.com Media Release 29 Janauary 2007 Bring Home Hicks campaigners to converge on Parliament and US Embassy People outraged at the ongoing incarceration and injustice suffered by David Hicks at the hands of the US military will be converging on the federal Parliament when it opens 6 February 2007. The Convergence is being organised by the Adelaide based Fair Go for David campaign, the Sydney based Stop the War Coalition and the nomadic Peacebus.com. "We intend to bear witness to the passion and compassion of our elected representatives on this issue," said Peacebus.com captain Graeme Dunstan. To this end the Bring Hicks Home campaigners will be pitching the Eureka flag, setting up a public forum outside the Parliament and inviting elected representatives to address the crowd before they enter. "We want the immediate release and repatriation of David Hicks to be the number one issue of the Parliament," Dunstan said After the Parliament assembles the campaigners will take their protest in a march to the US Embassy. Free David! Close Guantanamo! and Bury Howard! are the themes of the protest. Campaigners are invited to wear orange, bring a drum and maybe a shovel too. Further information Graeme Dunstan 0407 951 688 Marlene Obeid 0401 758 871 Raul on 0403 037 376 Peacebus.com visible in support of justice for David Hicks at the Eureka Memorial, Ballarat, December 2006. Peacebus.com supported the Hicks rally organised by Liberty Victoria, Amnesty International and Civil Rights Defence in Federation Square, 9 December 2006. That's Brian Walters Liberty Victoria (left) and Les Thomas of Civil Rights Defence Peacebus.com captain, Graeme Dunstan, brought national media attention to the campaign for a fair go for David Hicks' by inviting his father Terry to be the Leading Light of the Eureka Dawn Lantern Walk which took place in association with the commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the Eureka rebellion, 5 December 2004.