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DESCRIPTION:Timor-Leste (East Timor): From Genocide to Democracy--\nA Talk by Janice 
 Maria de Jesus, Pamela Sexton and Curt Gabrielson\n\nLessons on US foreign 
 policy, international solidarity and impunity\n\nFriday, August 30, 7-9PM 
 at the Resource Center for Nonviolence, 612 Ocean St., Santa Cruz\n\n20 
 years ago, on August 30, 1999, despite widespread Indonesian military 
 intimidation and violence, the East Timorese people declared their 
 sovereignty to the world in a\nU.N.-sponsored referendum on independence. 
 The Indonesian military responded by unleashing a scorched earth campaign 
 which left thousands dead and hundreds of thousands displaced. Much has 
 happened during the past 20 years, including a national truth and justice 
 commission report, Chega!, calling for justice for crimes against humanity 
 committed from 1975 to 1999.\n\nWhile efforts to end impunity for past 
 crimes have been unsuccessful thus far, there is still much to celebrate 
 today. Timor-Leste stands as an example of democracy and\ntolerance to many 
 of its neighboring nations. Timor-Leste is one of the most oil-dependent 
 nations in the world, but local organizations are demanding a sustainable, 
 diversified economic future. Timorese feminist and LGBTQ movements continue 
 to\ngrow, with support from national leaders, and Timor-Leste leads the 
 world in its inclusion of permaculture school gardens in the national 
 school curriculum.\n\nAbout the Speakers\n\nJanicia Maria de Jesus was born 
 in Maliana, Timor-Leste and has studied in the U.S. for the past four 
 years. She studied architecture at the California College of the Arts,\nand 
 is currently studying electronic music production in Pyramind, San 
 Francisco. She will return to Timor-Leste to help preserve and develop 
 Timorese culture through art,\ndesign, and music, to gain recognition of 
 the Timorese identity around the globe.\n\nPamela Sexton is a local 
 educator who has worked for 25 years with ETAN, and lived for 10 years with 
 her family in Timor-Leste. In 1999, Pam was an election observer in 
 Timor-Leste and U.S. Coordinator for an international solidarity observer 
 project.\n\nCurt Gabrielson ran the Watsonville Environmental Science 
 Workshop and currently works with the Greenfield Community Science 
 Workshop. He has been a science\neducator for more than 20 years, with 
 positions in California public schools, the National University of East 
 Timor, UNESCO and San Francisco’s Exploratorium Teacher 
 Institute.\n\nSponsors:\nEast Timor and Indonesia Action Network (ETAN) is 
 a U.S.-based grassroots organization working in solidarity with the peoples 
 of Timor-Leste (East Timor), West Papua and Indonesia. ETAN provides 
 information about, and ways to help, Timor-Leste,\nwhich was invaded and 
 subjugated by U.S. ally Indonesia in 1975, and which finally attained 
 independence on May 20, 2002. ETAN educates, organizes and advocates for 
 justice for historic and ongoing crimes against humanity; for human rights 
 and\ndemocratic development.\n\nThe Resource Center for Nonviolence is a 
 peace and justice organization promoting the practice of nonviolent social 
 change. Our primary mission is to support the growth of\nnonviolent 
 activists.\n\nIF is a nonprofit humanitarian, educational and social change 
 organization located in the Santa Cruz, CA, area. We are a community of 
 friends seeking hopeful alternatives to\nthe violence, greed and 
 destructiveness of our world.\n\nWomen’s International League for Peace 
 and Freedom (WILPF) was founded in 1915 during World War I with Jane 
 Addams as its first president. WILPF works to\nachieve through peaceful 
 means world disarmament; full rights for women; racial and economic 
 justice; an end to all forms of violence; and to establish those political, 
 social, and psychological conditions which can assure peace, freedom, and 
 justice for all.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2019/08/26/18825734.php
SUMMARY:Timor-Leste (East Timor): From Genocide to Democracy
LOCATION:Resource Center for Nonviolence, 612 Ocean St., Santa Cruz, CA 95060
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2019/08/26/18825734.php
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