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Canadian Universities aid to Indonesia

Multiple Canadian Universities were sending monetary aid to Indonesia for various projects in the country. A newspaper article was published by the Varsity of the University of Toronto expressing their distaste with the aid being sent to Indonesia.

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ETAN

Various documents from ETAN including

  • National Constitution (ETAN) 1996/1997, ETAN's mission statement, conference minutes
  • Nobel Peace Prize winner Jose Ramos-Horta newspaper article
  • Team Timor Campaign: financial report

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ETAN Halifax

The Technical University of Nova Scotia awarded an honorary degree to the Indonesian minister of trade and industry. This file contains various newspaper article about the honorary graduate, Dalhousie University' support for the graduate and the distaste from Canadians and Nova Scotians regarding the honorary degree.

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Barbara McDougall

Barbara McDougall was the Secretary of State of External affairs for Canada who met with the Indonesian Foreign Minister in Seoul in 1991.

This item contains:

  • a request for the transcript of the complete meeting between Barbara McDougall and the Indonesian Foreign Minister.
  • a letter from McDougall where she says that she told the foreign minister of Indonesia that she was upset with the recent shootings in East Timor and she suspended the approval to the new aid projects to Indonesia

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U of G- Sulawesi Regional Development Project (SRDP)

The University of Guelph was involved with a 37 million dollar project with the government of Indonesia. The project was called the Sulawesi Project. This project fueled controversy as Indonesia was not being punished for their human rights violations and continued to receive funding for various project.

This item contains

  • Various newspaper articles, including some from the University of Guelph’s campus newspaper
  • Handwritten correspondence to Elaine Briere and John McMurtry
  • The review of the Sulawesi project

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Textiles of Timor Exhibit

Various documents about the Museum for Textiles in Toronto. The Museum of Textiles is a non-profit educational organization incorporated in 1975.
This item includes

  • The legend of the crocodile
  • Examples of textiles from Timor
  • East-Timor; The Survival of a Vision
  • The Buffalo and the Princess (Timorese folktale)
  • A Swedish magazine: Forintesle i Paradiset
  • A story a quail and a rat

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Vote 1999

This file includes documents from the Canadian Action for Indonesia and East Timor, a response from the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (CA) and handwritten notes.
Contents:

  • Vote on the options of autonomy or independence for the territory in East Timor
  • International NGO Observers for East Timor Consultation

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Asia-Pacific Conference on East Timor

The Asia- Pacific Conference on East Timor was held in May of 1994 in Manila. The goal of the conference was to bring into focus the Timorese's people's right to self-determination and consolidate its support network in the Asia-Pacific region.

This item contains:

  • A personal account of events and controversy surrounding the conference
  • Resolutions adopted at APCET
  • Remembering Dili
  • Statement to APCET regarding the implementation of the declaration of granting independence to colonial countries
  • A Powerplay Backfires (newspaper article)
  • Philippines decision to ban the entry of aliens that pose a danger to their country and a reply from ETAN
  • Canadian (Shannon Scharfe) faces arrest for attending conference on East Timor in the Philippines
  • Shannon Scharfe's statement regarding the arrest
  • Indonesia tries to suppress East Timor conference in the Philippines.
  • Foreigners banned from attending Asian Conference on East Timor

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Bata Boycott

The Bata Shoe Company, in Toronto, had two factories in Indonesia. ETAN had urged them to remove their factories and began planning a boycott of Bata shoes.

This item includes:

  • The Annex Echo: Walk a Mile in these shoes
  • A letter to Mr. Bata
  • Action proposal
  • Boycott Bata Shoes flyer
  • Free East Timor, Boycott Bata Shoes flyer
  • "Protesters disrupt opening of Bata Shoe Museum"

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Bilateral Human Rights Dialogue

The Canadian government and the Indonesian government sign a joint declaration (included) which states that "determined to broaden relations and enhance mutual confidence and understanding." This is alarming for ETAN.

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Bitter Paradise

Flyers introducing 1996 Nobel Peace Prize winner Jose Horta Ramos and the premiere of Elaine Brière's film "Bitter Paradise: The Sell-Out of East - Timor" in Toronto, CA.

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East Timor Symposium

A symposium was being held in March of 1997 discussing the Case of East Timor and Indonesia. Also includes the Eastern Indonesia Universities development project.

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ET Peace Ship

Three Canadians were on a boat apart of "Peace in Timor Mission" heading to East Timor and they were warned by the Canadian Secretary of State for External Affairs, Barbara McDougall to "consider their actions carefully.

This item includes

  • News releases from ETAN
  • Newspaper article about Genevieve Appleton, a Canadian student on board the ship
  • a letter from Micheal Barry, High Commissioner, urging Appleton to not proceed with the ship

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Bella Galhos

Item consists of correspondence, a transcript of an interview, a cover of an issue of the ACTivist featuring Bella Galhos, and two articles discussing her.

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ETAN Montreal

This item includes

  • Leaflet for Réseau d'alerte pour le Timor Oriental (RATO) which is ETAN in french.
  • Concert for free East Timor/Concert pour la liberation du Timor-Oriental (flyer)
  • A genocide to call our own East Timor by Chuck E. Tallyrand
  • "To Resist is to Win"/"Resister, C'est gagner" (flyer)

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Peace Fund Canada

Correspondence between ETAN members for a Project Grant application and a questionnaire addressed to Team Canada and other Canadians involved in Asian Countries answered by Li-Lien Gibbons.

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