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DEC 2000 NEWS & ARTICLES Updated Dec 24
UPCOMING ACT AUSTRALIA EVENTS Updated Dec 22
CURRENT URGENT ACTIONS Updated Dec 23
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DEC 2000 NEWS & ARTICLES Updated Dec 24
Dec 24 Age: East Timor - Silent Shame, Silent Witness
Dec 23 AFP: Indonesia postpones registration of East Timorese refugees
Dec 23 Age: East Timor's land rights mess
Dec 22 IHT: A Family in East Timor Grieves for a Daughter
Dec 22 ETAN's Annual Report of its activities for 2000
Dec 20 SMH: Australia denies UN its secret files of Timor terror
Dec 20 AP: UN Investigator Says East Timor Death Toll May Be 2,000
Dec 20 Age: Guilty as charged: the Timor verdict
Dec 19 ETAN urges U.S. to support International Criminal Court
Dec 19 SMH: Hard Grind - Weak coffee prices add to fledgling nation's
woes
Dec 18 CAAT: Re-build ET coffee economy - Buy Fair Trade Coffee!
Dec 18 Reut: Ramos-Horta optimistic, pragmatic on E.Timor future
Dec 18 Age: Xanana call for South African-style truth and reconciliation
commission
Dec 13 TimP: Teachers protest to UN
Dec 10 ACFOA Position Paper: Negotiations of the Timor Gap Zone of
Cooperation
Dec 6 Times: Bishops call for international tribunal to try war crimes
in East Timor
Dec 5-6 INGO: Report on the Brussels Donors' Meeting on East Timor
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UPCOMING ACT AUSTRALIA EVENTS Updated Dec 22
ANU - Centre for
Continuing Education - Summer 2001 Program
'The Great Turning:
choosing a life sustaining future'
Marie Jamieson and
Gerry Jacobson
10 am - 6 pm Saturday
24 February
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CURRENT URGENT ACTIONS Updated Dec 23
Urgent Actions: Letter Writing:
* Until Jan 3 2001 Amnesty International Australia:
Aceh Indonesia - Fear for safety/fear of torture or ill-treatment
Things you can do: Fair Trading:
* Dec 18 CAAT: Re-build ET coffee economy - Buy Fair Trade Coffee!
Things to avoid:
* Dec 12 NTEU: Put books for East Timor Uni on hold
* Dec 9 Age: Gifts to Timor stranded by army
* Dec 3 OPMT: Please DO NOT mail Sewing Materials to Australian Forces
PO!
* Nov 30 ACFOA: Please No more teddies for East Timor!
* Nov 11 APHEDA: DO NOT mail Books for ET Uni to Australian Forces
PO!
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