West Papua Global Day of Action and Healthcare Workers for Palestine National Day of Action

West Papua Global Day of Action and Healthcare Workers for Palestine National Day of Action

Join us at 4/1 Pavonia Place,Nightcliff, NT (Environment Centre NT community space)

• 1st December, 63rd commemoration of the raising of West Papua Independence flag
• Land Grab Talk, solidarity with the Palestine and First peoples of so called Australia
• Photo for Healthcare workers for Palestine National Day of Action.

In Garramilla (Darwin) please join us for afternoon tea to support West Papua’s Global Day of Action, commemorating 63 years since the Morning Star flag was first raised after independence from the Dutch. Weeks later Indonesia invaded and occupied with military force, endorsed by the United States of America. In solidarity, we will raise the Morning Star flag with our neighbouring West Papuan family and friends, who are facing up to 15 years imprisonment for raising their independence flag on their ancestral lands. 

We will have some speakers and discussion reflecting on the current land grabbing and shared experiences happening in Papua, Palestine and in so called Australia, and what action we can all take to resist these imperial colonial capitalist forces. This act of land theft, land grabbing, is often accompanied by the marginalization, displacement, and destruction of the cultural, social, and political structures of the affected groups.

Land grabbing is escalating in the Papuan provinces colonised by Indonesia. The recently elected Indonesian president has strengthened its Ministry and policies to escalate transmigration from other parts of Indonesia, using the military to secure land. West Papuans this month have taken to the streets to reject the transmigration policy. Over 100,000 Papuans are currently displaced in the Indonesia provinces. Indonesia is also creating the world’s largest deforestation project in Papua and has started clearing with military force over 2,29 million hectares of lowland savanna and grasslands in the Merauke, an estimated 50,000 people will be displaced to grow Sugarcane, Palm Oil, Rice and Bioethanol. The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has called it a "global treasure" and a proposed World Heritage listing says no other place in the region compares to it, including the famous Kakadu national park in northern Australia. 

Also, it is Healthcare Workers for Palestine National Day of Action, and they would like to take a photo with us all (optional to be photographed).