#free papua new guinea

[pandorascalamity]

There is a genocide taking place in Papua New Guinea and no one is talking about it. Yes it's important to talk about Palestine, Sudan, Armenia and Congo but please take the time to educate yourself about what's going on in PNG. Indonesia is dropping bombs on people whose only method of fighting back is with bows and arrows.

The video linked has far more extensive information. Please spread this around.

[walterdoodles]

Sorry for lack of art, I'm just slowly getting off the Internet... bc i hate it😁😁

I still draw but mostly for myself ♥️, since i can't rely on getting commissions and also I don't want my art to be used in ai.

important reminders; KEEP BOYCOTTING! Free Palestine 🇵🇸 Free Congo 🇨🇩 Free Sudan 🇸🇩 Free Papua New Guinea 🇵🇬 Do not stay silent on this! No Justice, no peace!!

Thank you all, if you want me to be more active then I'm sorry you'll have to wait.

[e-xolite]

Please please please, I’m begging people, start talking about indonesia occupied papua. Over the last 50 years Indonesia has killed over 500,000 native Papuans in their occupation of the west half of the island.

This is also a genocide that should be talked about. It needs to be addressed, but it’s ignored on the global stage.

Free Papua!

[catastrxblues]

articles and news on what’s happening in west papua are so appallingly scarce that i could rarely find any except a few before this. as an indonesian, i didn’t even know any of this is happening in the first place until a few months ago because rarely any of the big news outlets have ever brought it up, much less in a scale that is necessary to gain the world’s attention. SO PLEASE CHECK THIS OUT, one article at a time if it seems too much (which is what i'm currently doing too).

i think it’s important to note that while indonesia has been loudly advocating for palestine’s freedom, it has also been committing silent acts of violence against the people of west papua and exploiting them for years and silence those AND others who have tried to bring it to light.

things included in the thread ->

ARTICLES :

freewestpapua.org *the link isn't working at the moment but op has included screenshots in the tweet!

west papua : a history of exploitation (al jazeera)

courtesy of amnesty international

OTHERS :

amnesty international - "sudah, kasi tinggal dia mati" pembunuhan dan impunitas di papua (in bahasa)

BOOKS TO READ :

'the road : uprising in west papua' by john martinkus

'an act of free choice : decolonisation and the right to self-determination in west papua' by pieter drooglever

'merdeka and the morning star : civil resistance in west papua' by jason macleod

’see no evil : new zealand’s betrayal of the people of west papua’ by maire leadbeater

‘freedom in entangled worlds’ by eben kirksey

‘poisoned arrows’ by george monbiot

‘papua blood’ by peter bang

’west papua and indonesia since suharto’ by peter king

pdf available :

’the united nations and the indonesian takeover of west papua’ by john saltford

’west papua : the obliteration of a people’ by carmel budiardjo and liem soei liong

FILMS TO WATCH :

rebels of the forgotten world (1991)

blood on the cross (1999)

freedom for west papua (1999)

papua merdeka (2002)

west papua — the secret war in asia (2007)

forgotten bird of paradise (2009)

strange birds in paradise — a west papuan story (2010)

west papua — a journey to freedom (2011)

mama malind su hilang (our land has gone)

benny wenda — oslo freedom forum (2012)

isolated (2013)

courage is contagious — TEDx sydney (2013)

the road to home (2015)

punks for west papua (2016)

run it straight (2016)

act of no choice (2019)

paradise bombed (2023)

investigative tv reports :

inside indonesia’s secret war for west papua — ABC news (2020)

selling out west papua — al jazeera (2020)

INFOGRAPHICS :

amnesty international

brief history

2017

2018

[cryptixotic]

Super happy - My bat posters made it to Fonts in use ! As a graphic designer, i treasure this website and its amazing graphics, so i'm excited to have my work featured on it ✶ It's great to have these under documented bats shared around too - even if it's to type lovers ;-) Not only that, but it's also the first submission in Tok Pisin, a widely used language of Papua New Guinea.

Finally, It also is the first use of Nyght Serif submitted to the site - Nyght Serif is a stunning font by Maksym Kobusan, and it was used in different styles throughout the poster. Unique yet easy to read, its dark italic style has shapes not that far off from the curves of bat wings... it was the perfect candidate for this project !

If you like beautifully drawn letters, Tunera Type is an awesome foundry full of unique fonts - all free for personal & commercial use.

[tilbageidanmark]

The eruption of Mount Tavurvur volcano on August 29th, 2014

[agentfascinateur]

While "democracies" are causing anarchy, we would be tackling climate were it not for those genocidal attention-whores causing wars.

[gokyacetakal]

Papua Conflict

I just found out about an ongoing war between the native peoples of Papua and Indonesia. Papua is the name for the west side of an island, the right side is more well known and is Papua New Guinea.

The natives of Papua are civilians, remote villagers, peoples who live in the middle of no where jungles. People who are perfectly fine with living off the grid as they’ve done for generations. And they’re being bombed and shot at by Indonesia who want to take control of the territory. And they are killing Kids, Grandparents, Parents, Grandchildren to get it. This video documents first hand what a Papua Rebel and his group are doing to help his community, his people. As well as the response from a board member of Thales’ Australian division, a company that manufactures the bombs being used on children.

[k1ng0k]

UNDER THE SUN

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[kaccvcate]

A great work of art should illicit an emotional response. Cannibal Holocaust (1980), one of the most infamous movies ever made, does exactly this, in spades. The creative leads were Italian, but the majority of the actors are Yanomami, the same ethnicity as most of the actors in Boorman's The Emerald Forest (1985.)

The beginning of the movie establishes that a group of young people researching cannibalism went missing after a expedition into the Amazon to contact previously isolated tribes. After a search, their bodies and footage are recovered, and this found footage makes up the majority of the film. It reveals that the young filmmakers were extremely prejudiced, and when they find the tribe they’re looking for, they terrify them with guns and violence, and burn their entire village. The jungle people rightfully murder the townies, and then just to be extra cool, they eat them, too.

Cannibalism is a controversial topic. In most human cultures, it’s extremely taboo; in some it’s abstracted and ritualized (such as in Catholicism); and to some chads still living out in the bush it’s highly sacred. I think European people are extremely oversensitive about culturally diverse funereal practices – for example, thanks to the colonial government occupying my country, I’ll be unable to keep my father’s bones after he dies, an ancient Choctaw tradition that we both would prefer to follow. To the Fore people of Papua New Guinea, the only respectful way of handling your loved one’s corpse is to eat their brains. Most cultures that practice cannibalism eat their enemies after defeating them in battle, which is similar to the culture of our cousins, the Chimpanzees. There’s also evidence of the practice by some early hominids in Europe. This leads me to think battlefield cannibalism was once universally practiced by our shared ancestors, and then dropped by certain cultures over time, so really you anti-cannibals are the freaks. Cannibalism is an especially controversial topic among some indigenous activists, because historically some North American tribes were accused of practicing it who never did, to justify European conquest (most of us always had a taboo similar to Europeans.) Personally, I think it would be better to rest in the warm belly of a friend, than to spend eternity in the cold, hard ground. Maybe if colonizers had to eat what they killed, they would kill less people. Human flesh makes good food for thought, at any rate.

Aside from the staged cannibalism, this movie contains footage of real war atrocities, and multiple real hunting scenes. They butcher and eat every animal killed on film. If the abstract thought of killing an animal to eat it is disgusting to you, I think you are probably extremely out of touch with reality. Colonial society separates people from food production so thoroughly that extremely normal things are frightening and strange to adults, as they ought only to be to young children. Even if you’re vegan, the fact of the matter is that without animal products our ancestors would not have survived, and animal products are indispensable to the future of sustainable living (if you think “vegan leather,” aka plastic, is better for the environment, you are a fucking moron, and don’t even get me started on the detrimental effects of synthetic fabrics, dyes, and scents, not to mention their byproducts.) “Wah wah, I don’t want want to look, dead animals are yucky.” Actually dead animals are beautiful and delicious, but have fun living in la-la fantasy land I guess. Non-human animals kill and eat each other all the time, even supposedly herbivorous deer and cows will eat meat when they have a chance. The idea that it's somehow immoral for humans to do so is anthropocentric elitism, which contributes to colonialism and environmental destruction. You will never survive the glorious people’s revolution.

Another reason this movie is so effective is the groundbreaking special effects, which are extremely convincing, especially given that they're placed alongside real animal violence. There's also several rape scenes - the one most commented on by mainstream reviewers is the one committed by a Yanomami man, but the European characters actually rape more women and break rules of consent in more varied contexts throughout the movie. During one of the only two times characters have sex and it isn't assault, it's filmed without the woman's consent, and the other time the Yanomami are forced to watch, so there's actually no consensual sex in the entire movie.

Most movies are about how the world is really a good place, and kindness wins out in the end. To me, the world has not always been so nice, and I’ve seen many real life examples where good people did not win, so horror movies are actually life-affirming in a very satisfying way. I’m not trying to say the tribe portrayed by the Yanomami are worse than the European characters (far from it) but what makes this a great horror movie is that there aren’t actually any “good” characters. We’re shown some pretty violent traditions the fictional tribe keeps, and I think some of the inhuman, barbaric practices of our “modern civilization” would be equally offensive to an isolated jungle nation, such as industrial pollution and prison slavery (not to mention the actions of the European characters in the movie.) Frankly, if you don’t like seeing racist white people get torn apart and eaten by some tribal-ass cannibal dudes, I think you probably just have bad taste.

[pushtidarling]

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[catastrxblues]

currently on a semi hiatus due to ramadan and academic stress 😁🫶🏽

hi everyone 😭😭😭

[cauli-flawa]

West Papua is undergoing a crisis currently.

This is a gross oversimplification of the background, but: Both West and Papua New Guinea was initially controlled by the Netherlands. Separate parts of the land were owned by different powers (Germany, Britain, and Australia). The Netherlands were also controlling Indonesia. But, after the Indonesian National Revolution, the Netherlands agreed to grant Indonesia solidarity, but refused to give them West Papua.

The dispute was brought to the UN, who decided to settle it with a ballot - the 1969 Act of Free Choice. Out of 800,000 Papuans, 1,025 got to vote for the nation's future. Indonesia won the ballot, though they did not do so fairly. The handful of "representatives" selected by Indonesia were pressured into voting in their favor. International journalists claimed that the ballot itself was rigged.

The Free Papua Movement (OPM) stemmed from the indigenous Papuans who rejected Indonesia's occupation. They are currently fighting against the Indonesian military.

Meanwhile, Indonesia continues to violate the human rights of the West Papuans. There is very little coverage due to Indonesia prohibiting journalists from reporting it.

On September 6, 2022, Genocide Watch reported that 500,000 West Papuans were killed since 1969, with 100,000 displaced.

The Papuan people do not have the rights to free speech, freedom, and life. Meanwhile, their land is exploited for gold and copper. The Grasburg Copper and Gold mine, owned by the American Company Freeport McMoRan, is one of the largest mines in the world. It is also a source of human rights abuses and utter disregard for West Papua's land.

Other sources:

International Parliament for West Papua (IPWP) Discusses the many human rights abuses West Papuans face.

Wikipedia article Provides more in-detail context.

Human Rights Watch (August 2023 investigation) An investigation on Indonesia's actions.

Human Rights Monitor Contains a selection of articles on West Papua.

An Article from The Guardian reporting the torture and deaths of detained children The article discusses an event from April 7 of that year. A Petition from 2018 to investigate the violations in West Papua.

West Papua: The Genocide That is Being Ignored by the World Article by the Indigenous People's Major Group For Sustainable Development (IPMG SD)

I am not an expert. Please feel free to add more sources and information, and correct errors made in this post.

[aus-wnt]

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[foxglovepng]

Race Headcannons 🥀🌼

Requested: Nu uh I just felt like it

CW: Race, Rook Slander, Ortho spoiler Idia's part.

Characters: NRC students

These are my Race Headcannons for the NRC men. Some of these I just went by feeling a lot of these I did research about the movie setting although with the fishes + beast men I went by geography.

Some of these I'm unsure of (Heavy on Sebek) If anything is incorrect or you want to share your thoughts go ahead I'm always open to corrections and hearing others. (PROOFREAD FOR ONCE)

(Updated Epel on 5.12.24)

🌼

Heartslabyul

Riddle (British)

I don't really have an explanation for this one other than the Red Queen in Tim Burton's version she was British and had a big goofy forehead (I have not seen the animated one help)

Trey (German)

Would you believe me if I told you I whipped out a map closed my eyes and threw a dart and it landed on Germany??

For this one I went with somewhere in Europe and I picked Germany because it just made sense to me I was gonna say Polish, but his Green hair was telling me German.

Cater (Scottish)

It's his ginger hair tbh.

Ace (Japanese)

A lot of people headcannon him as Filipino, but me personally I wanted to be quirky and different /j

This one doesn't really have any evidence I just went by feeling. I also headcannon it that he would love Jojo and Junji Ito.

Deuce (Mexican)

As a fellow Mexican I KNOW ONE OF US WHEN I SEE ONE OF US. He is Mexican and I WILL DIE ON THAT HILL.

Savanaclaw

Leona (Kenya)

I actually googled it and Lion King takes place in Kenya which is a country in the eastern part of Africa. For obvious reasons since he is based off Scar it made sense to make him Kenyan.

Ruggie (Multiracial)

I may get a lot of heat for this one, but this man got blonde ass hair and blue eyes, HOWEVER for the geography of spotted Hyena's I feel he is light skinned. He's got some Kenya in him but he also got some white genes. Geography wise I believe he is also part Arab since there are Arab countries in Africa. So therefore I believe he is white, black, and Arab.

Jack (Bircial)

Another one I may get a lot of heat for.

From what I remember Jack is from the same country as Vil? So, I believe Jack is part black, but also part European. It also isn't explicitly stated what movie he is from we just know he is a wolf.

Pop off Jacob Black (not sorry)

Octavinelle

Azul (Cuban) + The Twins (Filipino)

I googled Coral Sea locations and I came to these conclusions.

There are different Coral reefs going from Australia, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Fiji, and Maldives. With the Twins I thought how funny would it be to make them Australian, but Filipino just kind of felt right like a gut feeling. The Carribean sea also has coral reefs so I made Azul Cuban. I was going to make him Venezuelan however I ended up going with Cuban, but I feel like both fit him in a way.

Scarabia

Jamil + Kalim (Arab)

I don't really think this one needs an explanation Aladdin quite literally takes place Agrabah which was based off of Baghdad, Iraq (source: Google)

HOWEVER

There is an article that says the Architecture is based on the Taj Mahal which is Indian.

There is also a mention of Allah in the animated version BUT because I don't fully understand religion in general (And also Disney back then was kind of racist) I don't want to use religion as a justification to where specifically they are from. So I will simply just say they are Arab.

Pomefiore

Vil (German)

Snow white was based in Germany. (I have nothing more to say :Skull:)

Rook (French)

Self explanatory

Epel (Sami)

The Sami People are people who are indigenous to Sapmi which is in Northern Europe. (Todays Russia, Sweden, Finland, and Norway).

From doing a bit of research the Sami people seem to be dying out and their language too. (If you want to feel free to Google the Sami people there's a lot to learn about them and it's really interesting. There was basically a bunch of policies put in place to kill them and mistreat them it's really sad)

So in short Epel is Sami Indigenous (If I'm correct he's the first Indigenous character we got so far which is nice representation) (I also hope my research was correct please correct me if not)

Ignihyde

Idia (Greek)

Based on where Hercules takes place and because Hades is quite literally Greek Mythology he is Greek.

Ortho is just a robot, but when he didn't drop dead he was Greek.

Diasmonia

Malleus (German/French)

I am not really getting a clear answer as to where Sleeping Beauty takes place so I made him a French German. He slayed tbh

Lilia (Romanian)

Dracula's castle is in Romania that is the only explanation you are getting

Silver (French/German)

I am being told he is based off Sleeping Beauty so I am making him the same race as Waka Sama.

Sebek (Biracial)

When I first was thinking of a race for him I was thinking Slavic kind of fits him (atleast to me) or possibly Asian. However I had a really hard time guessing so I made him SlavicAsian. Maybe possibly Slovakia and Vietnam?

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[noasimss]

Group 8 of my "Around the World" sims up for download. Available for free on my Patreon <3

Top row: Australia, New Zealand, Tonga

Bottom row: Samoa, Fiji, Papua New Guinea