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Global Flag Raising For West Papua’s Freedom

November 28, 2015 Margaret Flowers, www.popularresistance.org , , ,
By Margaret Flowers for Popular Resistance. The struggle in West Papua is intimately related to international agreements like the TPP because West Papua is rich in mineral resources. West Papua has been under brutal Indonesian military control for the past fifty years and extraction is taking place against the will of the people. Indonesia is the largest island nation and the fourth most populated country in the world. Indonesia is a large exporter and plans to join the TPP. If it does so, the struggles of the West Papuans will be even harder as there will be greater legal standing for transnational corporations to destroy the environment, and with that, their way of life which is closely connected to the Earth. I invite you to learn more about this struggle and to show your support for the West Papuan people on Tuesday December 1 by raising a West Papuan Flag and sharing a photo of that. Spread the word. We cannot continue to ignore the genocide of the West Papuan people.

West Papuan People Reclaim Future, Share Stories With World

December 25, 2013 Global Revoution, www.facebook.com/globalrevlive
West Papuan people are taking their futures back into their own hands. They are taking communication with the world into their own hands. The Indonesian government can not stop the West Papuan people now. The Indonesian government wants to hide what it has been doing in West Papua for 50 years and does not want West Papuan people to communicate with the world. They are trying to stop people finding out about the Act of free Choice in 1969. The Indonesian government thought they could fraudulently carry out the the Act of free Choice and the massacre and torture of those who reject it without the world finding out. But today they can no longer hide what they have done.

West Papuans Arrested At Prayer Session For Freedom Flotilla

September 1, 2013 Marni Cordell, www.theguardian.com ,
West Papuans Apolos Sewa, 53, Amandus Mirino, 56, Samuel Klasjok, 60, and Yohanes Goram, 53, were detained and interrogated for 24 hours in the Sorong police station before being released at 10pm on Thursday night. "On Wednesday we had a mass prayer session to welcome the Freedom Flotilla from Australia," Goram told Guardian Australia on the phone from Sorong in West Papua's west. "The police arrived and arrested us at about 6pm." Goram said the group had been questioned about their activities and asked whether they wanted independence from Indonesia. "We said, 'yes, we do.' We told them, 'We will struggle for independence from Indonesia because we are different from you, and because of the history between our people.
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