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Freeport-McMoran Protest in Phoenix on December 14th
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Freeport-McMoran Protest in Phoenix on December 14th

Environmental and humanrights groups protest outside the headquarters of Freeport McMoRan in Phoenix AZ. Protest groups included Occupy Phoenix, East Timor and Indonesia Action Network, and the Sierra Club. ...

Groups Urge U.S. Not to Sell Attack Helicopters to Indonesia

Groups Urge U.S. Not to Sell Attack Helicopters to Indonesia

Ninety organizations today urged the U.S. government and Congress not to provide deadly attack helicopters to Indonesia. Indonesia has announced that it plans to buy eight AH-64 Apache attack helicopters from the Uni ...

Workers Still Underpaid, Freeport Resumes its Plunder of West Papua

Workers Still Underpaid, Freeport Resumes its Plunder of West Papua

“Freeport has long been the source of conflict… A majority of Papuans, who have different ethnic and religious roots to their political leaders in Jakarta, want independence.” In the U.S., Occupy P ...

OccupyPhoenix and ETAN Demonstrate Against Freeport McMoRan
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OccupyPhoenix and ETAN Demonstrate Against Freeport McMoRan

Occupy Phoenix and East Timor Action Network demonstration against Indonesian police killings at the Freeport McMoRan Grasberg mine in Papua, Indonesia. October 28th, 2011. ...

Freeport: Claiming Corporate Social Responsibility from Atop a Mountain of Corpses

Freeport: Claiming Corporate Social Responsibility from Atop a Mountain of Corpses

What does a mining company need to do to get a top score for “corporate social responsibility”? To judge by the recent “100 Best Corporate Citizens List”, all it takes to finesse a long and co ...

US State Department’s Annual Human Rights Report for Indonesia Regarding West Papua

US State Department’s Annual Human Rights Report for Indonesia Regarding West Papua

The Indonesian government's malfeasance in this regard has been the basis of growing charges that the Indonesian government's policies towards the Papuans in particular, amounts to genocide. ...

Don’t Train Indonesia’s Deadly Kopassus

Don’t Train Indonesia’s Deadly Kopassus

The history of Kopassus human rights violations, its criminality and its unaccountability before Indonesian courts extends back decades and includes human rights and other crimes in Timor-Leste (East Timor), Aceh, We ...