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WEST PAPUAN CANOE AND THE MORNING STAR, 1 MAY 2012

May 02, 2012

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WEST PAPUA: Flying the Morning Star flag at ‘RUN MELBOURNE’

AUSTRALIA WEST PAPUA ASSOCIATION-MELBOURNE, Press release, 16 July 2011 An ageing Indonesian-speaking Anglican priest will run alongside West Papuan frontman Ronni Kareni in The Age’s Run Melbourne fun run on Sunday 17 July 2011. Rev. Peter Woods resigned in 2009 from being a parish priest to work as a full-time activist for the West Papuan independence movement. His commitment to the long-standing freedom struggle began when he and his wife were missionaries in West Papua between 1978 and 1982 and their third son was born in Angguruk, a highland homeland of the Yali people. Woods’ political activism is unique, almost renaissance-like, ranging from personal testimony and community development to political presentations in venues as diverse as the Maraki Vanuariki Council of Chiefs in Port Vila (Vanuatu) and the George Mason University in Fairfax Virginia (USA). He was the only foreign witness to the massacre at Cendrawasih University in 2006, which on his return to Melbourne...

FREE WEST PAPUA POLITICAL PRISONERS CAMPAIGN TEAM - WASHINGTON D.C

More Info below: Date: March 27, 2013 Time : 15 : 00 – 16 : 00 Place: Jonson Center Room 244, George Mason University, Fairfax Campus . This event will be held on the 2nd floor of the Johnson Center. GMU senior Amy Frazier will give a speech about West Papua, and her experiences learning about the issues faced there through working with Herman Wainggai. She will especially be focusing on the importance of informing the American people about the struggle in West Papua. She will introduce Non-violent West Papuan activist and Visiting Scholar, School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University. Herman Wainggai, a West Papuan leader and former political prisoner with experience of life both before and after assertions of state and corporate control into his peoples’ territories, will share the character, viability and qualities of life in a locally self-governing and sustainable culture, as well as his peoples’ nonviolent resistance to armed and violent...

HERMAN WAINGGAI - UNITED NATIONS PERMANENT FORUM ON INDIGENOUS ISSUES 2016

Every year since 2007, the United Nations Permanent Forum for Indigenous people holds meetings to discuss issues that are important to indigenous people of the world. It is an opportunity for us West Papuans to express our views and concerns, and to remind the United Nations of what happened more than five decades ago in West Papua under the New York Agreement (NYA), which was signed on August 15, 1962, and continued on in 1969 under the sham election known as the ‘Act of Free choice’. The result of this betrayal is the colonial occupation of our people and the destruction of our lands and natural resources. Our people were denied the “One man one vote,” which was agreed on in the New York Agreement (NYA). It is our duty to remind the UN of this history when we get the chance. The UNPFIII focuses on three things that affect indigenous people across the world: conflict, peace, and resolution. It gives indigenous people from around the world a voice – an opportunity to raise their conce...

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