Benefit for East Timor

By Nick Everett BRISBANE Fifty people attended a September 30 dinner, organised by Aksi (Indonesia Solidarity Action), to raise funds for East Timor. The event, which commemorated the bloody 1965 coup which brought to power Indonesia's New Order, included a video, speakers and performances from Mark Cronin and Urban Dervish. Guest speaker Robert Cribb outlined the events of 1965. Following an attempted coup, involving the capture and killing of a number of generals, a campaign of mass murder was carried out under Suharto's leadership, in which more than a million communists and left activists were killed. Speakers from Aksi and the East Timorese community called for support for the November 12 Committee, a broad coalition of East Timor campaign activists preparing for a demonstration on November 11 to commemorate the fourth anniversary of the Dili massacre. For more information phone 3254 0565 or 3375 1025. n

From GLW issue 206