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	West Papuan Social Activism
		Being the closest regional power to West Papua, it is natural that the Australian community is generally aware of West Papua and the nature of the issue, though perhaps not the depth of troubles.
		The PDP was established on 26 February 2000 in a Grand Tribal Assembly of Tribal Leaders and Papuan Politicians.
		LAMASKO is the Tribal Council of the Kamoro Tribe of West Papua Highlands.
	members.optusnet.com.au /daeron/activism.html (2155 words)

	Why West Papua Matters Today \| WestPAN: Canada's West Papua Action Network
		West Papua is at a critical point in its history, and we urge you to explore this issue for the insights offered on past events and current efforts by the Papuan scholars, Papuan activists and international activists and scholars whose voices fill these pages.
		Papuans are Melanesians, and have more in common culturally with their neighbours to the east, in Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands, than they do with their Malay-Indonesian rulers to the west.
		Even though Papuan leaders worked throughout the 1950s for self-determination, their efforts were scuttled by international politicians who, in a series of feints and sleights of hand, allowed West Papua to be handed over to Indonesia in 1962-3.
	www.westpapua.ca /?q=en/node/32 (1109 words)

	Social Movements: An Anthropological Reader:1405101083:Nash, June C. :eCampus.com
		The concept of a state-sponsored social movement, particularly a right-wing movement, contradicts assumptions identifying civil society as counter to the state and of social movements as ideologically left-wing.
		This article compares the processes internal to social movements with their presentation of "self" to outsiders, through examining the tension between political identity formation as the constant and contingent negotiation of difference within organizations and the need to project unitary identities that usually result in essentialization, using a human rights case and indigenous autonomy movement.
		Reddy shows Indian feminist activism to be resolutely focused on the needs of local communities, ever cognizant of the pitfalls of globalization, while also increasingly capable of drawing upon global networks and resources to facilitate grassroots initiatives for social change.
	www.ecampus.com /bk_detail.asp?ISBN=1405101083 (1553 words)

	Free West Papua
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		West Papua is the western half of the island of New Guinea.
		uprisings in the highlands of West Papua and in the west in the
	forests.org /archive/indomalay/irian.htm (1634 words)

	Evatt Foundation: Publication: Peace building in West Papua - 03 November 2004
		Their perspectives were varied - eight West Papuans joined indigenous representatives from the Pacific, experts on Indonesia, human rights activists, lawyers, doctors, academics, historians, peace and dialogue practitioners, members of the clergy and religious organisations, military experts and politicians.
		Furthermore the religious tensions that exist between Muslim migrants and Christian West Papuans are cause for concern,accentuated by the social and economic gaps that are encouraged by a paternalistic Indonesian culture.
		West Papua is the second poorest province, with the least capacity to fight the scourge.
	evatt.labor.net.au /publications/papers/131.html (4875 words)

	Supporting Genocide In West Papua « The Heathlander
		Eliezer Bonay, Indonesia’s first governor of West Papua, estimated in 1981 that 30,000 West Papuans were killed in the six years of Indonesian occupation prior to 1969 ‘Act of Free Choice’.
		In February, Human Rights Watch reported that at least 18 West Papuans are serving sentences in Indonesian jails in violation of international law for the “crime” of peacefully expressing their opinions by raising the West Papuan flag, or attending meetings on self-determination, etc. etc.
		Systematic resource exploitation, the destruction of Papuan resources and crops, compulsory (and often uncompensated) labor, transmigration schemes, and forced relocation have caused pervasive environmental harm to the region, undermined traditional subsistence practices, and led to widespread disease, malnutrition, and death among West Papuans.
	heathlander.wordpress.com /2007/03/04/supporting-genocide-in-west-papua/trackback (4833 words)

	The Secret War Against The Defenseless People Of West Papua
		West Papuans argue that they suffer the environmental consequences [of the Grasberg Mining Operations] but do not receive revenue from the mine, and that human rights abuses are regularly committed by the Indonesian forces that act as security for the company.
		West Papuans argue that they suffer the environmental consequences but do not receive revenue from the mine, and that human rights abuses are regularly committed by the Indonesian forces that act as security for the company.
		West Papuans argue that their integration with Indonesia was a denial of their fundamental right to self-determination.
	www.safecom.org.au /west-papua.htm (6140 words)

	UK Indymedia \| West Papua : Rape of a Nation
		Papuans have referred to it scornfully ever since as the ‘Act of No Choice.’ It was to open the door to the most brutal period in Papuan history.
		The campaign’s aim is to expose what is happening in West Papua and to battle on the national and international stages for what every Papuan group is now calling for: a re-run of the previously rigged UN vote on their independence; a chance for their voice to finally be heard.
		Despite their public statements about ‘corporate social responsibility’ and ‘environmental sustainability’, all of them seem happy to operate in a country in which tribal people are violently suppressed by an occupying power.
	www.indymedia.org.uk /en/regions/oxford/2005/03/307902.html (2963 words)

	[Kabar-Irian] Irian News - 4/6/05 (Part 1 of 2) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		West Papua is under the control of the Indonesian Government which wants to maximise the commercial value of the country, but the Papuan people say this is at the expense of their culture.
		In a short speech during the launch, Mr Smith mentioned that the West Papuan call for reviewing the 1969 Act of Free Choice, that was supervised by the United Nations, and their struggle for independence from Indonesia is now an issue of increasing familiarity with the current government of Prime Minister Tony Blair.
		Years have worn on but the West Papuan struggle persists with the muscle of will and the pulse of determination, the mythological morning star is still on the rise.
	www.kabar-irian.com /pipermail/kabar-irian/2005-April/000635.html (5202 words)

	West Papua Information Kit
		West Papua's Carstensz Pyramid is the highest mountain in continental Australia, yet this limestone peak piercing the equatorial snowline is also kept out of the media and public awareness for fear that the world might ask which continent it is part of.
		West Papuans saved many American and Australian lives (see war photos) while Gen. MacArthur built his Pacific HQ and bases in West Papua for the safety afforded by our Papuan Allies.
		West Papua defeated Indonesian invasions of 1961/62 and ask the UN to return the prisoners to their Asian nation.
	wpik.org (3178 words)

	Call of West Papua
		West Papua was a WW-II Ally who saved tens of thosands of American lives, a friend who supplied food, accommodation, workers, and a secure pro-western base for the US forces of Gen. MacArthur to build his headquarters in.
		The Indonesian invasion of West Papua was not a random event.
		Hammarskjold in September 1961 silenced the UN calls for West Papua to become independent; and allowed the illegal transfer of West Papua's administration from the Netherlands to Indonesian control, and the use of the U.N. to inflict a Indonesian occupation and colonization of West Papua by 1969.
	members.optushome.com.au /daeron (1437 words)

	Protest and Punishment: Political Prisoners in Papua: I. Summary
		All too often Papuans not involved in the armed insurgency are caught up in anti-separatist sweeps or arrested as trouble makers for peacefully expressing their political views, a right protected by basic international free speech guarantees.
		Human Rights Watch takes no position on Papuan claims to self-determination, but it supports the right of all individuals, including independence supporters, to express their political views peacefully without fear of arrest or other forms of reprisal.
		While the Papua Special Autonomy Law, passed in 2001, explicitly allows symbols of Papuan identity such as a flag or song, courts have treated the raising of flags associated with pro-independence sentiment as a symbol of sovereignty and, as such, a banned form of expression.
	www.hrw.org /reports/2007/papua0207/2.htm (1816 words)

	ZNet \| Activism \| In Bed With Killers
		Kennedy proposed that the Indonesians be allowed control of West Papua for "a specified period", after which the Papuan people would be "granted the right of self-determination." An agreement was drawn up in New York, stating that the UN would supervise a referendum in which "all adult Papuans have the right to participate".(5)
		The purpose of these schemes, according to a former governor of West Papua, was to "give birth to a new generation of people without curly hair, sowing the seeds for greater beauty."(15) Indonesia's genocidal intent is undimmed.
		Today, villages in the Papuan highlands are still being burnt out by soldiers, and their people killed or forced to flee into the forest.
	www.zmag.org /content/print_article.cfm?itemID=7776§ionID=1 (1305 words)

	IDEAS. Articles.
		Various Papuan political organizations have made their views known both before the Indonesian annexation and long after, and although their opinions are still somewhat disparate in aim, the underlying expressions of discontent remain the same.
		For Suharto, the notion of an independent West Papua was intolerable and was portrayed as threatening the disintegration of the social fabric of the nation.
		The Papuan people at the heart of the matter were silenced by colonial rivalries and concern for their future was superseded by cold war politics.
	www.union.edu /PUBLIC/EAS/JOURNAL/articles.php?action=read&id=24 (7803 words)

	IDEAS. Articles.
		Various Papuan political organizations have made their views known both before the Indonesian annexation and long after, and although their opinions are still somewhat disparate in aim, the underlying expressions of discontent remain the same.
		For Suharto, the notion of an independent West Papua was intolerable and was portrayed as threatening the disintegration of the social fabric of the nation.
		The Papuan people at the heart of the matter were silenced by colonial rivalries and concern for their future was superseded by cold war politics.
	ideas.union.edu /print.php?id=24 (7812 words)

	Topica Email List Directory
		West Papuan activist, who is now living as a political asylum in the United
		West Papuans as "We are one people" when he raised concern in the House of
		Indonesia's province of West Papua and Papua New Guinea.
	lists.topica.com /lists/WestPapua/read/message.html?sort=a&mid=1718647223 (3477 words)

	The American Muslim (TAM)
		Papuan asylum seekers will be treated as if they were in a UN refugee camp,
		Papuans themselves who have no say in the matter.
		We are making such material available in our efforts to advance understanding of environmental, political, human rights, economic, democracy, scientific, and social justice issues, etc. We believe this constitutes a 'fair use' of any such copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law.
	theamericanmuslim.org /tam.php/features/articles/little_joy_for_the_papuans (1055 words)

	Toward Freedom - West Papua’s Forgotten Asylum Seekers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		Since the 1960s, West Papuans have sought refuge in Papua New Guinea in response to outbreaks of conflict between the Indonesian military and police, student and landowners groups, the nationalist OPM movement, and guerrillas of the TPN, the armed wing of the OPM.
		Despite this help, West Papuans living at East Awin are reliant on subsistence agriculture, growing food on land in a narrow strip along the road that runs through the camps at East Awin.
		The two political leaders from West Papua, Clemens Runawery and Wilhelm Zongganao, were to go to New York from Jayapura carrying testimonies from West Papuan leaders calling for independence and petitions imploring the United Nations Secretary General to halt the UN-supervised vote on Dutch New Guinea’s political status.
	towardfreedom.com /home/content/view/816 (2802 words)

	ZNet \| Activism \| Howard's Pacific Colonialism
		The movement urged PIF leaders to grant West Papua observer status as a step towards resuming its role in Pacific regional affairs, a right denied to the West Papuan people for the past 40 years.
		The movement strongly urged the PIF to condemn the violations against West Papuan women and children that are the result of Indonesia's militarisation of the territory.
		The movement also condemned the systematic destruction of the environment and cultural structures of the West Papuan people, and called on PIF leaders to address the dire humanitarian situation of West Papuan refugees in Papua New Guinea, and to take steps to protect their legal and human rights.
	www.zmag.org /content/print_article.cfm?itemID=4071§ionID=1 (2794 words)

	Inside Indonesia Article July - September 2001 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		He has the ability to understand social problems, but he is unable to confront a mentality of over three decades.
		Papuans are frustrated, their soul has been broken.
		As 'ethno-nationalism' grew and the PDP promised independence, economic envy led to clashes between indigenous Papuans and non-Papuan settlers, for example in Wamena in late 2000.
	www.westpapua.net /docs/articles/insideindonesia1.htm (5379 words)

	West Papua solidarity rallies in Darwin, Canberra, Melbourne + News : Melbourne Indymedia
		Please support this urgent rally in support of the West Papuans and calling on the Government to let them live in the community while there claims are assessed.
		West Papua was invaded by Indonesia in 1961 and like East Timor the people have been subject to terrible military repression.
		The group of Papuans is being held on Christmas Island where their status and claims for refugee status are being assessed.
	www.melbourne.indymedia.org /news/2006/01/104539.php (1315 words)

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		Indeed, dissent, protest and social change are seen as essential to a healthy, robust, democratic society.
		And yet agitators, dissenters and social movements challenging the status quo — surely among the most active of participants in the process of growing a vibrant democracy - are inevitably met with the repressive forces of that same society: police, courts, sometimes even gaols.
		Activism, far from being dissipated and fragmented by this new information technology, has flourished in cyberspace. In the context of such changes in our socio-legal environment it is timely to examine three new resources that consider the law of protest, demonstration and activism.
	www.fitzroy-legal.org.au /files/law_reform/activism_law_social_change.doc (2749 words)

	Amnesty International USA: Business and Human Rights – The Environment
		No social or environmental impact assessment of the project was required or conducted.
		Papuan community leaders and some of Freeport's U.S.-based institutional investors have called for an end to the company's support of the armed forces.
		Meanwhile, activists for socially responsible investment have pressured pension funds and other investors to either divest funds from Freeport, or to use their influence to force meaningful improvements in how Freeport deals with the Papuan community.
	www.amnestyusa.org /business/environment/indonesia.html (3562 words)

	So close to Australia, so far from hope - World - smh.com.au
		But in East Awin, a string of settlements in country inhabited by cannibals about 40 years ago, the 2500 Papuan settlers are far from reconciled to their fate and precarious subsistence livelihood.
		The Papuans are from diverse backgrounds, the majority villagers from directly across the border, some educated people from the cities of Jayapura and Biak on the north coast, some Dani highlanders from the Baliem Valley.
		A further 8000 Papuans are squatting in camps close to the border between the Star Mountains and the Torres Strait, not regarded as refugees.
	www.smh.com.au /news/world/so-close-to-australia-so-far-from-hope/2006/09/05/1157222134891.html (1563 words)

	DICTAROR WATCH (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		Declaration by the Presidency on behalf of the European Union concerning kidnapping and subsequent murder of Mr.
		The goal of the Activist Exchange is to encourage such activism: to energize as many people as possible to get involved, and to bring activism into the mainstream and make it as conformist --Ð to work to resolve problems Ð as it is now viewed as irregular.
		The basic assumption underlying Dictator Watch is that for real and positive social change to occur, we must solve our underlying problems, not only treat their observable symptoms.
	www.westpapua.net /news/02/03/dictator.htm (1516 words)

	Free West Papua protest 15 August Melbourne : Melbourne Indymedia
		While the failure of Howard's migration bill has been a relief, West Papuans have still to continue their struggle for freedom...
		Papuans were never consulted, their land was destroyed by logging and
		The referendum was supposed to be an 'Act of Free choice', but West Papuans call it the 'Act of NO choice': less than 0.2% of the population were selected by the Indonesian authorities and allowed to vote...
	melbourne.indymedia.org /news/2006/08/119593.php (478 words)

	InterContinental Cry / Special Autonomy: Indonesia and the Natives of Papua (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		More than 15,000 West Papuans are currently living in camps in Papua New Guinea; and others are forced to live in exile around the world because it is not safe for them to go home.
		Although many Papuans were empowered by the congress and began to expect independence, the actual and immediate result was a crackdown of military and police units throughout West Papua/Irian Jaya.
		Responding to the demand, speaker of the Papuan provincial council Jhon Ibo argued that it was premature to say that the Special Autonomy Law was a failure as it was just a few years old and the implementation process was still ongoing.
	intercontinentalcry.mahost.org /unitytalk/viewtopic.php?id=70 (3615 words)

	Amazon.com: West Papua and Indonesia Since Suharto: Independence, Autonomy or Chaos?: Books: Peter King (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		In the 1950s, the people of West Papua (then Dutch New Guinea) were promised self-determination and eventual independence by their colonial masters.
		Traveling extensively in West Papua and throughout Indonesia, Peter King has interviewed leading figures from the West Papuan Independence movement, church groups, and human rights NGOs.
		West Papua and Indonesia since Suharto places the current Papuan struggles in a context of failing Indonesian reform.
	www.amazon.com /West-Papua-Indonesia-Since-Suharto/dp/0868406767 (816 words)

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