{"id":1031,"date":"2015-06-05T18:24:14","date_gmt":"2015-06-05T18:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.infopapua.org\/?p=1031"},"modified":"2015-06-05T19:17:00","modified_gmt":"2015-06-05T19:17:00","slug":"people-of-sydney-hold-candle-lit-vigils-to-support-the-people-of-west-papuas-road-to-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.infopapua.org\/?p=1031","title":{"rendered":"Sydney holds a vigil to support the freedom of the people of West Papua"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>News from Sydney, Australia. People of Sydney hold candle lit vigils to support the people of West Papua on the their long road to freedom.<\/p>\n<p>All over Australia 1000&#8217;s of people are finding out the truth about West Papua. The truth about Indonesia&#8217;s fraudulent and illegal annexation of West Papua. And the truth about Indonesia&#8217;s genocide against the fuzzy wuzzy angels who once stood side by side with Australia.<\/p>\n<p>The truth about West Papua is being exposed.<\/p>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_show\">\n<p><em>Free West Papua Speaker: I was so honoured to speak at the Free West Papua event at Sydney Town Hall this evening. Seeing so many Australians for a Free West Papua, hearing a West Papuan man speak, sing songs &amp; see tears roll down his face &amp; the face of others as I spoke tonight is a moment I will cherish forever!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Twice I had to pause because people were cheering! Here&#8217;s a little bit of what I said: &#8220;To my Pacific Island People. We must come together<span class=\"text_exposed_show\"><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>to<a class=\"_58cn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hashtag\/freewestpapua?source=feed_text&amp;story_id=10155711153775010\" data-ft=\"{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;*N&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:104}\"><span class=\"_58cl\">\u202a <\/span><span class=\"_58cm\">FreeWestPapua\u202c<\/span><\/a>. We need to pressure our governments &amp; ask them to do something about this! When one Pacific Nation struggles, we all bare the pain. To my fellow young people. We are the leaders of tomorrow &amp; the generation of change. I dream that YOU &amp; I will be the leaders who will see Indonesia OUT of West Papua &amp; be there the day West Papua raises their national flag on their Independence Day&#8221;&#8230; It was a great night &amp; I&#8217;m so blessed to have been part of it. 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People of Sydney hold candle lit vigils to support the people of West Papua on the their long road to freedom. All over Australia 1000&#8217;s of people are finding out the truth about West Papua. The truth about Indonesia&#8217;s fraudulent and illegal annexation of West Papua. And the truth about Indonesia&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1035,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-free-west-papua-campaign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infopapua.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infopapua.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infopapua.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infopapua.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infopapua.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.infopapua.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infopapua.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infopapua.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infopapua.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infopapua.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}