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Last updated November 21, 2008
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-Solidarity Action

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  • Canberra
Public Forum – Aceh province in the wake of the Tsunami disaster. Speaker: Human rights lawyer Afridal Darmi from the Indonesian Legal Aid Foundation (LBH) in Aceh. Mon. Dec. 1, 5.30pm–6.30pm, reading room of the Political and Social Change Department at Hedley Bull, ANU Canberra. For more info contact antjemissbach@googlemail.com.
  • Melbourne
    Campaign for West Papuan justice and refugees – Meets every Wed 6pm at Trades Hall Bar, Carlton. Supported by: Australia West Papua Association, West Papua Australia Active Support Network, Free West Papua Collective, Friends of the Earth, ACTU, VTHC, CEPU, Timor Sea Justice Campaign and more. For more info ring 0409 268 978 or e-mail manukoreri@riseup.net.
  • Sydney
One Day Seminar – Aceh: Lesson and Experience from the Tsunami and Conflict. Wed. Dec. 3, 9am-5pm, Quadrangle History Room (S223), University of Sydney. Organised by Indonesian Solidarity, for more info contact +61416809107 and +61 2 92173874 or indonesian_solidarity@yahoo.com.au.
    Australia-West Papua Association MeetingsLast Wednesday of every month (6.15pm) in the office of People for Nuclear Disarmament, cnr Chalmers & Bedford Streets. Info from Joe Collins or Anne Noonan: (02) 9960 1698 or 0408 860 342 or email iris@matra.com.au.

    Australia-East Timor Association (NSW) meets every 4th Wednesday of each month in Room 310, Level 3, Tower Building, UTS Broadway between 6.30pm. Contact Stephen Langford (02) 9331 5986.

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  • Protest over killings shuts down Nepal's capital - Associated Press. November 20, 2008. Activists chanted slogans and halted traffic in a general strike Thursday protesting alleged killings by former communist rebels who head the country's coalition government.
  • Chinese president builds economic ties with Cuba - Associated Press. November 20, 2008. China's president signed trade deals with communist ally Cuba and agreed to help it modernize its ports and hospitals on Tuesday.
  • Transgender group calls for justice - Jakarta Post. November 20, 2008. Dozens of transgender people in Yogyakarta on Wednesday commemorated Transgender Day of Remembrance, which falls every Nov. 20, by distributing stickers and flowers to passers by.
  • Court rejects document that links Muchdi to abductions - Jakarta Post. November 19, 2008. A court has rejected a prosecution request to present as evidence a document they claim links former spy Muchdi Purwopranjono to a military operation that led to his dismissal and a vendetta against activist Munir.
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