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SACRED
CIRCLE AT THE WHITE HOUSE TO RAISE CONSCIOUSNESS
ABOUT PRESENT U.S. WAR CRIMES ON
NOVEMBER 12
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Nov 12
BAN U.S. SUPPORT FOR INDONESIAN
INVASION OF EAST TIMOR
CLOSE THE SCHOOL OF
THE AMERICAS
WHERE: WHITE
HOUSE North (Pennsylvania Ave) side, Washington D.C. meet in Lafayette Park.
TIME:
NOV 12th, SUNRISE TO SUNSET, Speakers at 11:00
SPONSORS: East Timor Action
Network, ETRO, Peace Action, Amnesty Intemational USA,
Catholic Workers, Veterans for
Peace, War Resisters League, Visions in Action, Global Exchange.
Coordinated
with a demonstration at the Indonesian Embassy at noon. Drumming in solidarity with a demonstration
at S.O.A. in Fort Benning, GA., Nov.16.
SPEAKERS: Estevao Cabral &
Mathew Jardine
FACILITATORS: Randy Crafton, Jaqui MacMillan, Stream Orstrum, Eric
Lewis
BEGINNERS &
NON DRUMMERS WELCOME
For Info, Transportion
& Housing: 215‑755‑3826
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EAST TIMOR: WHAT'S THAT?
Most U.S. citizens are unfamiliar with the word East Timor,
mostly due to media censorship. Timor
is an island north of Australia. East Tudor was a peaceful Portuguese colony
for over 450 years. In 1975, the
Portuguese colonial empire was dissolving and East Tumor declared independence.
Nine days later (12/7) Indonesia invaded with a full scale military assault.
90% of the weapons were provided by the U.S. taxpayer. Over 200,000 equivalent
to 1/3 of the population, has been killed.
The U.S. has continued to provide weapons enabling massacres and
policies of torture, rape, forced starvation, concentration camps, arbitrary
arrest and disappearances. The U N. has
condemned the invasion each year but the U.S. has paralyzed any U.N.
action. After 1996 Nobel Peace prize
was awarded to two East Timorese, the U.S. finally signed the U.N.
resolution. However, U.S. Green Berets
still train Kopassus, the Indonesian torture squad. U.S. Marines train Indonesian Marines. There is large scale ecological destruction and the culture of
East Timor is being obliterated. The
East Timorese want a U.N. supervised referendum on selfdetermination and for
Indonesia to withdrawal in cooperation.
Presently, Nelson Mandela is mediating talks between Indonesia and
Portugal. The East Timorese have not
been included in these talks. Reasons
for U.S. complicity: 1) Oil deposits in the Timor Gap. 2) Deep water channel where nuclear
submarines can pass. 3) Corporate
profits from cheap labor and vast mineral resources in Indonesia.
SCHOOL OF THE AMERICAS:
NICE SOUNDING NAME?
In the state of Georgia. (U.S.A.) the School of the Americas
trains death squads, torture squads and combat troups who operate in Latin
America. Assassinations, murders of nuns, massacres of entire villages, etc.
have been performed by graduates of the school. U.S. taxpayers foot the bill for this embarrassing
attrocity. Congress has debated closing
it down several times. (Remember El Salvador?) * In the last few mooths SOA watch has added over 100 names to the list of SOA
graduates that went on to commit human rights abuses and to launder drug money
at Ft. Benning, GA
This info has been kept quiet in
our "democratic society." The
purpose of this drumming is to say: We
don't approve of our government exporting torture and violence.
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INTERNATIONAL
DAY OF ACTION
STOP GENOCIDE IN EAST TIMOR!
SUPPORT AN ARMS TRADE CODE OF
CONDUCT!
COMMEMORATE
THE
SANTA CRUZ
MASSACRE
WEDNESDRY,
NOVEMBER 12
Nov. 11, 6PN: Protest Prep & Nonviolence Training
(wlth free Piazza @ Amnesty Intl. 1118 22nd
St., 3rd floor)
Nov,
12: Dawn to Dusk Drumming, Lafayette Peace Park
@ the White House
11 AM Rally @
White House Sidewalk
11:30 March to
Indonesian Embassy
(2020 Mass. Aue.,NW, West of
Dupont Circle)
12 Noon
Protest @ the Embassy
Speakers: Estevao Cabral, East
Timor & Matthew Jardine
Reenactment of the 1991 Santa Cruz massacre honoring the East Timorese who died
and disappeared.
For more information or to sponsor, call 202/862‑9740x3041
www.webcom.com/peaceact/
Sponsors:
Amnesty International USA, Asia Pacific Center Baltimore Emergency Response
Network, Dorothy Day Catholic Worker, East Timor Action Network, East Timor
Religious Outreach, Fellowship of Reconciliation, Free Nigeria Movement,
Friends Committee on National Legislation, Global Exchange, Jews Against
Genocide, Jonah House, Kairos/Plowshares Community, Magdalene Catholic Worker
House, National Benedictine for Peace,NETWORK: A National Catholic Social
Justice Lobby, Nicaragua Solidarity Network, Nonviolence International, Pax
Christi USA, Peace Action, Peace Action Education Fund, S0A Watch, Student
Peace Action Network, Union of American Hebrew Congregations, Veterans for
Peace, Visions in Action, War Resisters League, Washington Peace Center
STOP GENOCIDE
IN EAST TIMOR !
SUPPORT AN ARMS TRADE CODE OF
CONDUCT!
AN
INTERNATIONAL DAY OF ACTION
TO COMMEMORATE
THE NOVEMBER 12
1991 SANTA
CRUZ MASSACRE
7 AM TO 5 PM Drumming @ the White
House
11 AM Rally @ WItite House Sidewalk
11:30 Funeral March to Indonesian Embassy
12 Noon Protest @ the Embassy
Speakers: Estevao Cabral, East Timor & Matthew Jardine, author, East Timon: Genocide in Paradise
Reenactment of the 1991 Santa Cruz
massacre
INDONESIA:
STOP KILLING
EAST TlMORESE
PRESIDENT
CLINTON:
NO BAILOUTS
FOR DICTATORS
CONGRESS:
PASS AN ARMS
TRADE CODE OF CONDUCT
PROTESTS in Washington, D.C., New
York City, Houston, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, the Philippines,
Australia, New Zealand, Germany, the United Kingdom, Ireland and Canada.
Contacts:
Peace Action Education Fund: 202/862-9740 x 3041 East Timor Action Network:
718/877-6071; East Timor Religious Outreach, 415-474-6219 www.webcom.com/peaceact/
On November 12, 1991 Indonesian troops armed with U.S.-made
M‑16 rifles fired on a crowd of several thousand unarmed East Timorese
civilians gathered at the Santa Cruz cemetery. A memorial service for a young
man shot by Indonesian security forces two weeks earlier had turned into a
massive and peaceful demonstration against Indonesia's brutal occupation of
their homeland.
At least 271 people were killed that day and as they sought
medical treatment in local hospitals. The scale of the protest was
unprecedented; the killing wasn't. Since Indonesia illegally invanded the
former Portuguese colony in 1975 at least 200,000, one‑third of the
population, have been killed. While not
the largest massacre in this genocidal history, the Santa Cruz massacre was
witnessed and photographed by foreign journalists, inspiring a worldwide
outcry.
The repression continues to this day. Between June and
mid- September, there have been 167
arbitrary arrests, 26 known incidents of
torture, and at least 5 disappearances documented by high‑level
church sources Indonesian's "Kopassus" red berets are visible
everywhere, troops that continue to receive training fron American green
berets.
The United States has sold over a trillion dollars of
weapons to Indonesia's Suharto regime since 1975. Licensed US helicopter production continues to this day. Now the United States waists to commit $3
billion
to
defend the financial stability of Indonesia's Suharto dictatorship. While the
aid comes with many strings attached none would curtail the brutal repression
of the people of East Timor.
Given the severity of the ongoing repression in East Timor, NO
BAILOUT AND NO WEAPONS should he offered to Suharto. Congress should pass
the Arms Trade Code of Conduct currently pending in the State Department Authorization conference committee and President Clinton should
withdraw his offer of bailout money
for Indonesia. Only by ending
U.S. support for the Suharto dictatorship will the East Timorese see justice.
Sponsors:
Americans for Democratic Action, Asia Timor, Baltimore Emergency Response
Network, Dorothy Day Catholic Worker, East Timor Action Network, East
Timor Religious Outreach, Fellowship of Reconcliation,Friends of Coalition, Free Nigeria Movement, Friends Committee on National Legislation,
Federation for East Timor, Jonah House, Kairos / Plowshares Commumity, Catholic
Worker House, Mother of God Monastery, National Benedictnes for Peace, NETWORK: A National Catholic Social Justice
Lobby, Nicaragua Solidarity Network Nonviolence International, Pax Christi USA,
Peace Action,Peace Action Edurcation
Fund, SOA Watch, Solidarity, Student
Peace Action Network, Taiwanese
Collegians, Union of American Hebrew Congregations, Veterans for Peace,
Visions in Action, War Resisters Lengue, Washington Peace Center