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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 & NONDRUMMERS WELCOME
For Info, Transportion & Housing: 2157553826
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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 202/8629740x3041
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
On November 12, 1991 Indonesian troops armed with U.S.-made M16 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, onethird 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 highlevel 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