- B CAETAN-PICS-1995-12 Ottawa demo-301
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- 1995
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Bella Galhos and Kerry Pither.
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Bella Galhos and Kerry Pither.
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Bella Galhos speaks to Ottawa police officer.
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Protesters arrive at Parliament buildings, Ottawa, 1995.
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ETAN protest moves through streets of Ottawa, 1995.
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Ottawa East Timor protesters, 1995.
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Canadian Environment Minister Catherine McKenna meets with members of the developemnt NGO USC Canada and Timorese organization RAEBIA (formerly USC), in Ottawa, 2016.
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Early Timor Activism in Canada
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Nova Scotia East Timor Group, 1983-onwards
When Dalhousie University in Halifax started considering a project in Indonesia, a group of local people formed the Nova Scotia East Timor Group. The group, led by Bill Owen, Audrey Samson and Ross Shotton, undertook a letter-writing campaign to the Canadian government, the first time Ottawa felt compelled to respond to letters from the public. Ten years after the 1975 invasion of East Timor, the NSETG was instrumental in the Canadian component of an Amnesty International to raise awareness about human rights in East Timor. Under Indonesian rule, AI reported, some 200,000 Timorese had died.
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Street theatre protest against Bata Shoes, Toronto
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João Santos Rolo and street theatre troupe at protest outside the Bata Shoe Museum, Bloor Street West, at a protest organized by ETAN/Toronto
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ETAN Toronto protest, Indonesian consulate
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Photograph of East Timor Alert Network vigil outside the Indonesian Consulate in Toronto, date unknown [1990s]. Vigils took place on a weekly basis for some years in the 1990s outside the office building housing the Indonesian Consulate at 425 University Avenue, Toronto. The Consulate later moved to its own building on Jarvis Street.
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Each year, a Canadian member of Parliamentarians for East Timor travelled to take part in international testimonies to the UN Decolonization Committee.
-Dan Heap MP at the United Nations with José Luis Guterres of Fretilin and Charles Scheiner of ETAN/US
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Jess Agustin and Bishop Carlos Belo
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Canadian support for economic development in East Timor began in 1990 with a small grant to ETADEP, which the Canadian government considered to be the only true Timorese NGO. The most significant early player was the Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace, which provided both funding and human rights support, especially for the Peace and Justice Office created by Bishop Belo.
-Jess Agustin of Development and Peace with Bishop Belo in Dili, 1999
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ETAN protest, Pratt and Whitney, Toronto
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East Timor Alert network protesters attempt to block access to a loading bay at the Pratt and Whitney factory in Toronto. Pratt and Whitney was one company issued with military export licences to Indonesia. The protest aimed to highlight Canada's role in arming Indonesia as part of ETAN's campaign for an arms embargo on Indonesia. Photographer at right is one of the reporters who covered this event. The protesters were removed and arrested by local police.
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Demonstration, Indonesian Consulate, Vancouver, Dec. 1991
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Li-lien Gibbons at ETAN/Vancouver protest, December 1991 (Photo by Elaine Briere).
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Bella Galhos, press conference, APEC, 1997
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In Canada, solidarity activists rallied to try to make a “citizen’s arrest” of Indonesian president Suharto at the 1997 APEC summit, picking up on the example of Timorese activists who had put their country’s struggle at the centre of the 1994 APEC summit in Jakarta.
-Bella Galhos presents media with photos of torture in East Timor outside the APEC summit, Vancouver, 1997 (Photo: Elaine Briere)
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Asia-Pacific Conference on East Timor
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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.
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This item contains newspaper articles and paperwork regarding the arms embargo on Indonesia from Canada.
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Canadian Foreign Policy Review
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A review of Canadian Foreign Policy in 1994.
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Canadian Universities aid to Indonesia
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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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Item consists primarily of reports discussing human rights violations in East Timor from about 1986 to 1999. It includes reports of consultations between the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) and Canadian Human Rights Non-Governmental Organizations. It also includes a report from the Canadian Peacebuilding Coordinating Committee, the 1998 annual report of Human Rights Violations in East Timor produced by the East Timor Human Rights Centre, and a presentation given by Canadian Action for Indonesia and East Timor (CAFIET) to the NGO Consultations on Human Rights in East Timor.
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Item consists of correspondence and reports regarding the Darwin East Timorese Tetun School project from about 1989 to 1995. Many of the documents focus on support offered by Japanese allies for this project.
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