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Call for suspension of military ties with Indonesia

Submitted by 2SER on Fri, 21/10/2011 - 9:20pm


The shootings and arrests of people meeting peacefully at the Third West Papuan Peoples Congress at Abepura this week are the latest instance of Indonesia’s violent and repressive rule in West Papua.

Australia has an agreement for military cooperation with Indonesia which includes the supply of weapons. 

It opens with the phrase “reaffirming the sovereign equality of the parties, their faith in the purposes and principles of the charter of the United Nations and their desire to live in peace with all peoples and all governments”.

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Indonesian crackdown on Papuan Congress sparks outrage

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 21/10/2011 - 8:32pm

A joint statement by TAPOL (UK), the West Papua Advocacy Team (WPAT,
US) and East Timor Action Network (ETAN, US). On Wednesday, a meeting of thousands of indigenous Papuans in Jayapura, West Papua, became the scene of a brutal crackdown by Indonesian security forces. Indonesian troops and police Mobile

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BREAKING: 3CR live crosses to Occupy Melbourne police action, eviction

Submitted by kimk on Fri, 21/10/2011 - 1:31pm

http://www.3cr.org.au/3CR_streaming

Mace, tear gas and tasers are allegedly being used on Melbournians supporting the Occupy Melbourne camp. Over 1000 people are currently occupying a major intersection in the city centre. Police are trampling people with horses.

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The Shortwave Report 10/21/11 Listen Globally!

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 21/10/2011 - 11:54am

Dear Radio Friend,
The latest Shortwave Report (October 21) is up at the website http://www.outfarpress.com/shortwave.shtml in 3 forms- (new) HIGHEST QUALITY (128kb)(27MB), broadcast quality (16MB), and quickdownload or streaming form (6MB) (28:59) Links at page bottom
(If you have access to Audioport there is a highest quality version posted up there {27MB} http://www.audioport.org/index.php?op=producer-info&uid=904&nav=&)

This week's show features stories from NHK World Radio Japan, the Voice of Russia, Radio Deutsche-Welle, ana Spanish National Radio.

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World had lost a great leader and great politician

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 19/10/2011 - 6:44pm

19th October 2011

Mr. Asif Ali Zardari
President of Pakistan
President's Secretariat
Islamabad
PAKISTAN
Tel: 92-51-9204801-9214171
Fax 92-51-9207458
Email: publicmail@president.gov.pk

RE: Condolence letter on the death of Veteran journalist, writer and intellectual Hameed Akhtar
Dear Mr. President,

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Indonesian police and army fire on West Papuan Congress

Submitted by takver on Wed, 19/10/2011 - 6:31pm

Breaking News: Reports are coming out of West Papua of Indonesian police and army firing on people attending the Papuan Congress.

Report by West Papua media on October 19 states:

Confirmed report from credible sources on the ground from credible West Papua media stringers.

TNI troops have opened fire on Congress at 1530 Jayapura time.

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World Food Day: Global warming too hot for chocolate? Cocoa farming and climate change

Submitted by takver on Sun, 16/10/2011 - 6:36pm

Do you fancy a bit of chocolate every now and then? Perhaps a hot cup of drinking chocolate and milk before going to bed? or a few small pieces of a bar of chocolate while watching TV? Maybe a fancy imported Swiss or Belgium chocolate with coffee and liquers at the end of a dinner party? or maybe some cool chocolate icecream on a hot summer's day? This could all become a thing of the past as chocolate becomes an extreme luxury item due to global warming.

Related: Global warming a potent brew for coffee and tea drinkers | International Centre for Tropical Agriculture | Fair Trade on Cocoa | World Food Day

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Australia can help Indonesia's impoverished rather than incarcerate their children - October 15, 2011.

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Sun, 16/10/2011 - 3:09pm

Following previous media releases on the fact that we have come to Sydney to highlight the continuing predicament of Indonesian children in Australian adult prisons, and the fact that we will travel to Indonesia to aggregate as much court admissible evidence to assist in the release of as many of the thereabouts 100 children languishing in adult prisons, and the latest media release confirming that Senator Lee Rhiannon and Senator Sarah Hanson-Young have promised me that they will finally ask questions in the Senate Estimates and the Senate regarding the predicament of these children, I ad

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