WEST PAPUA FREEDOM GIG TONIGHT!!!

dublin | miscellaneous | event notice Wednesday October 29, 2003 13:55 by Mark Doris - West Papua Action wpaction at iol dot ie 134 Phibsborough Road, Dublin 7. 01 860 3431

ALL WELCOME!!

WEST PAPUA FREEDOM GIG

Enjoy Jazz, Traditional, Barbershop, Folk and more!

Venue: An Cliabhán (Above Conways, Parnell St.)
Time: 8.30pm
Date: Wednesday 29 October.

Featuring:

Peter Browne (Jazz, traditional)
The Werewolf Quartet (Barbershop)
Alison O'Donnell (contemporary singer)
"Booster" (singer)
Claire Hanley: (fiddle)
Des Charleson: (singer)

€10.00 cover. Proceeds to West Papua Action campaign.

All Welcome!!!

WEST PAPUA FREEDOM GIG

Enjoy Jazz, Traditional, Barbershop, Folk and more!

Venue: An Cliabhán (Above Conways, Parnell St.)
Time: 8.30pm
Date: Wednesday 29 October.

Featuring:

Peter Browne (Jazz, traditional)
The Werewolf Quartet (Barbershop)
Alison O'Donnell (contemporary singer)
"Booster" (singer)
Claire Hanley: (fiddle)
Des Charleson: (singer)

€10.00 cover goes to West Papua Action campaign.

All Welcome!!!

WEST PAPUA IN BRIEF

West Papua, a former Dutch colony, just north of Australia, was taken over by Indonesia in 1963. At least 100,000 people have been killed since the takeover. Rape, torture, extra-judicial killings, curbs on freedom of assembly, on free access to the media and international observers and even researchers continue to the present. In 1969, just 1,022 people (out of a population of nearly one million) were rounded up by the Indonesian military to declare their loyalty to the Indonesian state. Termed the 'Act of Free Choice' - Papuans call it the Act of No Choice - this was what took place instead of a proper independence referendum, something which West Papuans are still demanding.

Five times the size of Ireland, West Papua contains one of the last great surviving tracts of unspoiled rainforest - part of the lungs of the Earth.

For more see: http://westpapuaaction.buz.org

'Within the next 20 to 25 years, the Papuans will be wiped out in their own land unless the international community changes its position' - John Rumbiak in Dublin, May 2003, about international silence regarding Indonesia's occupation of West Papua.

West Papua Action
134 Phibsborough Road
Dublin 7
Ireland
Tel. (direct) *353 (0)1 860 3431
Mobile *353 (0)87 2969742
Fax. *353 (0)1 882 7576
Email wpaction@iol.ie
http://westpapuaaction.buz.org
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for human rights in West Papua
including the right to self-determination
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