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Anthropologist Stuart Kirsch discusses the questionable science of the mining industry

Anthropologist Stuart Kirsch discusses the questionable science of the mining industry

Source: CBC Radio Cultural Anthropologist Stuart Kirsch spent decades working with native peoples living along the ok Tedi River, in Papua New Guinea, trying to oppose the social and environmental threats posed by an ...

Human Rights Commission Charges Freeport Mining Company With “Severe Violations”

Human Rights Commission Charges Freeport Mining Company With “Severe Violations”

Freeport had the ability to prevent this accident from happening but didn’t. The lack of effort jeopardized the lives of others. The gravity of this case is serious. Freeport has taken much from the people of ...

Indonesian military gears up for oppression in West Papua

Indonesian military gears up for oppression in West Papua

The Indonesian military has big plans and has made some big purchases. They have just acquired 8 units of AH-64 Apache combat helicopters as well as a number of submarines. Will they end be used for defense or to s ...

28 workers die in Freeport McMoran tunnel collapse
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28 workers die in Freeport McMoran tunnel collapse

Video art about the devil Richard K. Adkerson and the Freeport-McMoran mining company. Freeport-McMoran owns the Grasberg mine in Timika, West Papua, the scene of a recent tunnel collapse killing 28 miners. ...

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. ...

A Music Video Tribute for Assassinated Papuan Leader Kelly Kwalik
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A Music Video Tribute for Assassinated Papuan Leader Kelly Kwalik

Kelly Kwalik was a West Papuan freedom fighter. He was assassinated by Indonesian police on December 16th, 2009. He waged a resistance movement from the jungles against the Indonesian military and American mining gia ...

Land of the Morning Star – West Papua documentary (full version)
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Land of the Morning Star – West Papua documentary (full version)

Made by Australian journalist Mark Worth, the film features rare archival film and eyewitness accounts. Worth spent much of his journalistic career reporting on the region before his sudden death in a hotel room in J ...

Merdeka! The Struggle for Freedom in West Papua
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Merdeka! The Struggle for Freedom in West Papua

Indigenous freedom fighters, isolated & outnumbered and with almost no weapons, wage a resistance struggle against a massive army and brutal police forces with US training & funding. ...

Big executive pay, golden parachutes at Freeport McMoRan

Big executive pay, golden parachutes at Freeport McMoRan

Freeport McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc. executives receive hefty salaries and stock bonuses but they’ve also set up very large golden parachutes in case the Phoenix-based copper miner gets acquired. ...

Vote Rio Tinto for Greenwash Gold 2012
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Vote Rio Tinto for Greenwash Gold 2012

Rio Tinto is bad news for many communities around the world. Its operations have failed to provide adequate protection of public health, the environment, workers and human rights. It is a scandal that it should be pr ...

Indonesian State Intelligence Operating Outside Chain of Command in Papua

Indonesian State Intelligence Operating Outside Chain of Command in Papua

Intelligence operatives do not report to the Papuan chief-of-police despite the province currently being under a state of civil administration, where jurisdiction for security lies with regional heads and is implemen ...

Oklahoma Couple Discover Just How Dangerous The Grasberg Mine Really Is
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Oklahoma Couple Discover Just How Dangerous The Grasberg Mine Really Is

Mike Dillard, chief executive officer of Century Martial Arts and a prominent area developer, is a well known adrenaline junkie — but even he admits he was shaken by his latest adventure. What began as a recen ...

Alkinemokiye – From Struggle Dawns New Hope
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Alkinemokiye – From Struggle Dawns New Hope

September 15, 2011. 8,000 of the 22,000 Freeport Indonesia workers went on strike, demanding a wage increase from US$ 3.5 to US$ 7.5 an hour. ...

Freeport-McMoran Digs A Heap of Trouble in Indonesia

Freeport-McMoran Digs A Heap of Trouble in Indonesia

Mining giant Freeport-McMoRan dug up a heap of trouble in Indonesia’s most tenuous territory, and it won’t get better soon. Investors beware. Remote locations, labor unrest, violence—this is the ...

Violence Halts Freeport’s Production in West Papua Again

Violence Halts Freeport’s Production in West Papua Again

Freeport McMoRan has suspended operations at its gold and copper mine in eastern Indonesia due to fighting among its employees. ...

The Jayapura Five: Our Choices and Actions Do Affect the Lives of Others

The Jayapura Five: Our Choices and Actions Do Affect the Lives of Others

The actions of one country can seriously influence lives elsewhere. West Papua is a case in point, a seemingly small and remote area of the world, but nonetheless home to 245 different tribal peoples, each with their ...

Freeport Indonesia to renegotiate mining contract

Freeport Indonesia to renegotiate mining contract

Freeport McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc will renegotiate their contract with the Indonesian government that allows it to run Grasberg, the second largest copper mine in the world, the energy ministry said on Thursday. ...

Amungme leader warns Freeport it could be closed down

Amungme leader warns Freeport it could be closed down

In view of the fact that there has been no response from Freeport -Indonesia or Freeport McMoran, ‘I, Anthonius Alomang, as executive-director of Lemasa, the Association of Amungme tribal people, herewith warn ...

Vote Freeport McMoran the Most Evil Company of 2011

Vote Freeport McMoran the Most Evil Company of 2011

The annual Public Eye Awards selects 6 of the most unethical and abusive corporations from a long list of nominations. Support West Papua and vote for Freeport McMoran this year for worst company. ...

West Papua Information Kit (concerning Freeport)

West Papua Information Kit (concerning Freeport)

Before the Rockefellers sent (1961) Michael Rockefeller to this part of West Papua, at the end of 1960, fellow Freeport director Robert Lovett purchased an introduction to Joe Kennedy and his son U.S. President elect ...