Various documents ranging from photographs, flyers, posters from protests, flags, drawings, letters, pamphlets or publication made in regards to Timor Leste (East Timor). Most the these documents were created by different solidarity groups.
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Various documents that include memorandums, letters and documents written in 1975.
Item list: This item includes:
Letter to the Support groups and fraternal organizations from the New York Information Office (Sue Nichterlein - República Democrática de Timor Leste) (27.02.1990) | 2 pp.
Statement by Jose Ramos Horta, Minister for External Relations and Information of the Government of the Democratic Republic of East Timor. (13.12.1975) | 3 pp.
Statement by Jose Ramos Horta, Minister for External Relations and Information of the Government of the Democratic Republic of East Timor (20.12.1975) | 2 pp.
Letter to the Editor of The New York Times from Richard W. Franke, Member of the Timor Defense Committee, (26.12.1975)
Pacific News Service: “East Timor’s Cry for Help” by Robin Osborne (1975) | 4 pp.
Congressional Record - December 12th, 1975 | 4 pp.
Letter to Jacqui Chagnon from John Taylor, British Campaign for an Independent East Timor, (28.02.1976)
A resolution signed by embers of parliament (110 M.P.s signed) (09.12.1975)
Letter to. Jacqui Chagnon from Lenny Siegel, Pacific Studies Center, (02.02.1976)
Press Release - Timor Defense Committee Formed, created by the Timor Defense Committee (22.12.1975)
Letter to Mr. Mark Letter, Citizens’ Commission of Enquiry, from Sue Nichterlein (22.01.1977)
Letter to Ms. Jacqui Chagnon from Sue Nichterlein (22.01.1977)
Letter to Donald M. Fraser, Committee on International Relations, from Mr. Ken Fry (24.02.1977) | 2 pp.
Letter to Ms. Sue Nichterlein from Donald M. Fraser (22.02.1977)
Letter to Sue Nichterlein, New York Information Office, from Noam Chomsky (29.11.1976)
Letter to the East Timor News Agency from Jacqui Chagnon (03.03.1977)
Letter to Dennis and ETNA from Jacqui Chagnon (22.07.1977)
Visit of Jose Ramos Horta to Washington, D.C. - itinerary | 2 pp.
Letter to Ms. Susanne Nichterlein from John P. Salzberg, Special Consultant subcommittee on International Organizations (03.11.1976)
Letter to Jacqui Chagnon from Sue Nichterliein (05.10.1976)
Letter to Mr. Ernest DeMaid, Permanent Representative of WFTU to UN, from Jacqui Chagnon (07.04.1976)
Letter to Matt Witt, Editor of the UMW Journal, from Jacqui Chagnon (07.04.1976)
Letter to Mr. Leon David & Mr. Mo Falner, Hospital Workers Union, Jacqui Chagnon (07.04.1976)
Letter to James Lerner, Managing Editor of EK News, from Jacqui Chagnon (07.04.1976)
Letter to Mr. Harry Bridges from Jacqui Chagnon (07.04.1976)
Letter to Mr. Boris H. Block from Jacqui Chagnon (07.04.1976) Letter to John Salsberg from Louis Wolf (17.03.1977)
A photograph with the description: “Mid 1975. FRETILIN students and Portuguese sympathizers express their concern about the APODETI influence on UDT. This picture was taken several months before the Indonesian invasion.” with a translation in Esperanto. The photographer was Francisco Freire.
Another photograph with the same description as above, but the photo is more zoomed in than the previous one.
A photograph entitled “Oecusse March 1975” by Helen Hill. It is a photo of the protest with a sign that reads: “Integration-never never and never the People is with Fretilin”
A photograph entitled: “Refugees from East Timor crowd the deck of the cargo vessel Macdili docked in Darwin on 15 August 1975. Courtesy National Archives of Australia”
Press statement entitled: “Revolutionary Front of Independent East Timor” published on September 16th, 1975 | 4 pages (Some pages are blurry)
A booklet published by the Campaign for Independent East Timor entitled: ‘Independence or Death!’ East Timor’s border war eye-witness reports by Roger East. | 12 pages
A document entitled: “Don’t forget Timor” with the headline, “We appeal to the Australian people. Please do something to stop this invasion.” (1975) | 2 pages.
“Messages received by Bill Roberts via Telecom Darwin” September 1975 | 2 pages.
A document entitled: “The Timor Tragedy”, the documents are a little blurry but still legible | 2 pages
“Ballad for East Timor” by Phil Boyce, which is a song written about East Timor.
A newspaper article entitled: “Indonesia Attacks” published in The Age, November 1975