Leading up to and on the 1st.

Leading up to and on the 1st. 

West Papuan National Flag Day.  1st December

On the 1^st December in 1961, the Morning Star flag (the West Papuan National flag) was flown for the first time officially beside the Dutch Tricolor.  The Dutch were finally about to give the West Papuan people their freedom. 

However it is one of the great tragedies that at their moment of freedom it was cruelly crushed and West Papua was basically handed over to Indonesia in 1963.

Fifty Nine years later, the West Papuan people are still struggling for their right to self-determination. Supporters around the world on the 1st December raise the West Papuan flag in a show of support for the West Papuan people.

As individuals we can also contribute to raising awareness about West Papua on the 1st December.

By wearing a West Papuan t-shirt or badge or writing articles/opinion pieces to the media or for your church/trade union newsletter. 

All these simple actions will help raise the issue of West Papuan in the minds of the Australian public.

Quite a few webinar events that people can link in to below

AWPA letter to Aust Foreign Minister re concern about the 1st in Asia Pacific  report

https://asiapacificreport.nz/2020/11/29/36-arrested-after-police-break-up-free-papua-rallies-in-manokwari-sorong/

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A warm up in Sydney yesterday

                    

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Tuesday 1st at 10am 

West Papuan flag  raising 

The Inner West Council will raise the West Papuan Nation Flag on its Leichhardt Town Hall  (Corner of Marion and, Norton St , Leichhardt NSW 204)

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https://www.facebook.com/events/368987817877594/

TOMORROW AT 11 AM UTC+11 – 12 PM UTC+11

Raising the Morning Star

Facebook Live

Public · Hosted by Free Papua Movement Australia and Papua Militant International

Online with Facebook Live

We examine the long and bloody history of flag raising attempts in West Papua, share some Solidarity pictures, videos and messages from supporters this year 2020 and discuss how Australians can help. 

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An online event

https://www.facebook.com/events/368987817877594/

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You are invited to attend the virtual e-book launch of the late Andy Ayamiseba’s Memoir written by Manggupre Sabah and published by West Papua National Coalition for Liberation (WPNCL).

Join us for an evening of reflections and inspiring messages by some of Andy’s closest friends and colleagues in his life long campaign for West Papuan Independence.

Event will commence 1st December at 5pm AEDT time/3pm WIT.

Following formalities, the webinar will open for attendees to participate in a question and answer session with key speakers.

Like, share and follow this page for further announcements including Webinar details.

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=113176407273649&id=111463397444950

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Webinar & film screening | Expedition Content: Working with the Sound Archives of the Harvard Peabody Expedition to Netherlands New Guinea | Ernst Karel & Veronika Kusumaryati

December 3 @ 15:30 - 17:00

Synopsis

In 1961, filmmaker Robert Gardner organized the Harvard Peabody Expedition* to Netherlands New Guinea (current day West Papua). Funded by the Dutch colonial government and private donations, and consisting of several of the wealthiest members of American society wielding 16mm film cameras, still photographic cameras, reel-to-reel tape recorders, and a microphone, the expedition settled for five months in the Baliem Valley, among the Hubula (also known as Dani) people. It resulted in Gardner’s highly influential film Dead Birds, two books of photographs, Peter Matthiessen’s book Under the Mountain Wall, and two ethnographic monographs. Michael Rockefeller, a fourth-generation member of the Rockefeller (Standard Oil) family, was tasked with taking pictures and recording sound in and around the Hubula world. Expedition Content is an augmented sound work composed from the archive’s 37 hours of tape which document the strange encounter between the expedition and the Hubula people. The piece reflects on intertwined and complex historical moments in the development of approaches to multimodal anthropology, in the lives of the Hubula and of Michael, and in the ongoing history of colonialism in West Papua.

https://www.kitlv.nl/event/expedition-content/

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