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1).
Contents:
CURRENT URGENT ACTIONS Updated Dec 30
DEC 2000 NEWS, ARTICLES & REPORTS Updated Dec 31
NOV 2000 NEWS, ARTICLES & REPORTS Updated Dec 28
EARLY ARTICLES & REPORTS Updated Dec 30
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CURRENT URGENT ACTIONS Updated Dec 30
* 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 from One World shops!
Upon reading about the recent devastating
crash in income from East Timor's coffee harvest BACK DOOR did an
extensive web-search for ways that we could
respond. And guess what? In several capital cities in Australia there are
retail outlets that sell East Timorese coffee
at much fairer prices. Buying this fair trade coffee will help to re-build
the
coffee economy. This coffee can also be purchased
on-line!
April 2000 New Internationalist Online Magazine:
Theme - Fair Trade
Unconvinced? This edition of New Internationalist
contains several clear, concise, intelligent articles discussing the
issue of fair trade vs free trade. It is essential
background reading for anyone unsure of the importance and practicality
of fair trading to the pursuit of justice
in the world today.
* Things to avoid:
Dec 27 SMH: East Timor says no thanks to thongs, teddies
Dec 12 NTEU: Put books for East Timor Uni on hold
Dec 9 Age: Gifts to Timor stranded by army
Dec 3 OPMT: DO NOT mail Sewing Materials to Australian Forces PO!
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DEC 2000 NEWS & ARTICLES
Dec 28 IPS: East Timor: Nation-To-Be Goes From Euphoria To Pragmatism
Dec 25 CNRT: Mary Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Dec 22 ETO: Reconstructing suitable sustainable infrastructures
Tetum:
Dec 5 BLH: Boletim La’o Hamutuk "Hari Sistema Saude Nasional iha Timor
Lorosa’e"
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NOV 2000 NEWS & ARTICLES
Nov 28 CAA: The Timor Gap Treaty: Latest News
Nov 17 LHB: Lessons from Indonesia’s Health System
Nov 6 ETO: Transition, half way to independence
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EARLY ARTICLES & REPORTS
Aug 2000 CNRT/NC: Draft resolution on human rights
Nov 8 1999 Pat Walsh: From Opposition to Proposition: The CNRT in Transition
Sept 27 1999 Noam Chomsky: East Timor Retrospective
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ABOUT BACK DOOR
BACK DOOR is a FREE
Australia based Web & email newsletter which includes a
selection of international
news, articles and urgent actions related to East
Timor along with
coming events within Brisbane & Canberra.
BACK DOOR supports
human rights accountability, return of refugees,
strengthening of
indigenous culture, participatory democratic
self-determination
for the East Timorese people and people-centred grassroots
power-devolving
reconstruction of East Timor.
BACK DOOR gives priority
to:
* the Perspectives
of grassroots East Timorese community organisations and networks;
* the Opinions of
East Timorese people, especially those experiencing the
current context
as silencing or marginalising; and
* News affecting
East Timorese communities directly.
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