The Gaia Foundation of Western Australia is trying to mobilise
international solidarity amongst indigenous peoples for the Penan and
other Dyak peoples, whose culture is currently under threat in
Sarawak, Malaysia.
It is a sad indictment that the rapacious destruction of the
environment and the genocide of indigenous cultures, for so long the
halmark of European colonialism, is today occuring within Third World
nations against their own peoples.
A leading Aboriginal Activist from Australia, will shortly be going to
Sarawak to deliver statements of support from Aboriginal groups in
this country to express their solidarity with the Penan and other Dyak
peoples in this, their hour of dispossession. We hope to be able to
send it with statements of international solidarity from other
dispossessed indigenous peoples around the world.
Below you will see a list of indigenous groups with which we will be
lobbying for support. Our letters and faxes will be immeasurably
strengthened if you join us in our efforts. Any assistance would be
greatly appreciated.
For supporting evidence and explanations, please see the combined
document that accompanies this letter.
Please send any statements (in vernacular language with an English
translation if possible) to either
The Gaia Foundation
P.O. Box 63
Mirrabooka WA 6061
Australia
(09) 344 4514
Peg:gaiaf
or to
Kylie Hitchman
Sydney Rainforest Action Group
24 Beach Road
Bondi NSW 2026
(02) 265 3837
Peg:sragkylie
Kylie, at Sydney Rainforest Action Group can tape messages over the
phone if you would prefer a spoken rather than a written message.
For Gaia and her peoples!
INTERNATIONAL INDIGENOUS ORGANISATIONS
World Council of Indigenous Peoples
(International Secretariat)
555 King Edward Ave
Ottawa Ontario
Canada KIN 6NS
CENTRAL/SOUTH AMERICA
Alianza Nacional de Profesionales Indigenas Bilengues AC
Madero 67-60 Piso
Despacho 611
Mexico ID.G
CP06000
Uniao dos Nacies Indigenas (UNI)
C.P.70880
70.000 Brasilia DF
Brazil
ADMAPU
Casilla 1676
Temuco
Chile
Consejo Regional Indigena del Cauca (CRIC)
Apartado Aereo 516
Popayan
Columbia
Confederacion de Nacional Idades Indigenas de la Amazonia
Ecuatoriana (CONFENAIE)
Apartado Postal 4180
Quito
Ecuador
Asociacion Interetnica para el Desarrollo de la Selva Peruana
(AIDESEP)
Ave San Eugenio 981 STA.Catalina
Lima 13
Peru
NORTH AMERICA
Indigenous Survival International
Dene National Office
P.O. Box 2338
Yellowknife N.W.T.
Canada XIA 2P7
Innu Kanatuapatshet
Sheshatshit
Labrador (Ntesinan)
Canada AOP IMO
Metis National Council
116 Middleton Cres
Saskatoon
Saskatchewan
Canada S75 2W4
Native Council of Canada
72 Metcalf Street
Suite 200
Ottawa
Ontario
Canada N6A 3NI
National Indian Brotherhood
Assembly of First Nations
Territory of Akwesasne
Hamilton's Island
Summerstown
Ontario
Canada KOC 2EO
Union of New Brunswick Indians
35 Dedham Street
Fredercton
New Brunswick
Canada E3A 2U2
Indian Law Resource Centre
601 E Street, SE
Washington DC 20003
USA
International Indian Treaty Council
1259 Folsom
San Francisco
CA 94013
USA
Mohawk Nation/Akwasasne Notes
Via Rooseveltown
NY 13683
USA
National Indian Youth Council
201 Hermosa Drive NE
Albuquerque NM 87108
USA
Indigenous Women's Network
Centre for Social Change
13621 FM 2769
Austin TX 78726
USA
ASIA
Burma
Human Rights Committee for Non Burman Nationalities
P.O. Box 118
Chiang Mai 50000
Thailand
India
Centre for Tribal Conscientization
4 Shantadurga
41/5 Karve Road
Pune 411038
Maharashtra
India
Indian Council of Indigenous and Tribal Peoples
28 Mahadev Road
New Delhi 110001
India
Indonesia
OPM (Free Papua Movement)
P.O. Box 11582
The Hague
Netherlands
Republic of South Moluccas
P.O. Box 9841
1006 Amsterdam
Netherlands
Japan
Ainu Kyokai
Asahikawa
Sapporo
Hokkaido
Japan
Philippines
Cordillera People's Alliance
Locked Box 596
Garcom Box 7691
DAPO 1300 Domestic Road
Pasay City
Philippines
Mindanao Tribal Resource Centre
P.O. Box 98
Butuan City 8001
Philippines
AUSTRALASIA
National Federation of Land Councils
P.O. Box 3620
Alice Springs NT 5750
Australia
National Organisation of Aboriginal and Islander Legal Services
P.O. Box 143
Chippendale 2008
NSW Australia
Waitangi Action Committee
P.O. Box 61140
Otara
Aotearoa (New Zealand)
EUROPE
Unuit Circumpolar Conference
P.O. Box 204
DK3900
Nuuk
Greenland
Nordic Saami Council
99980 Utsjoki
Finland
NON GOVERNMENT ORGANISATIONS
Europe
Anti-Slavery Society
180 Brixton Road
London SW9 6AT
UK
Committee for Indigenous Minority Research (CIMRA)
5 Caledonian Road
London N1
UK
Forest Peoples Fund
Gaia Foundation
18 Well Walk
London NW3 ILD
Friends of the Earth
(Campaign to Save the Rainforests)
26-28 Underwood Street
London NI7JQ
UK
Gesellschaft fur Bedrohte Volker
Postfach 2024
D-3400 Gottingen
Germany
Incomindios
Schutzenmattstrasse 37
Basel
4051 Switzerland
International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs
Fiolstraede 10
DK-1171 Copenhagen K
Denmark
Minority Rights Group
379/281 Brixton Road
London SW9 7DE
UK
Onaway Trust
275 Main Street
Shadwell
Leeds LS178LH
UK
Save the Forest - Save the Planet
International Secretariat
ECOROPA
42 Rue Sorbier
75020 Paris
France
Survival International
310 Edgeware Road
London W2IDY
UK
Workgroup for Indigenous Peoples
P.O. Box 4098
1009 AB Amsterdam
Netherlands
Centro Ecumenico de Documentacao e Informacao
Av. Higienpolis 983
CEP 01238, mSao Paulo
Brazil
Comissao Pela Criacao do Parqui Yanomami
Rua Manoel da Nobrega 111
3o Andar Conjunto 32
04001 Sao Paulo-SP
Brazil
Cultural Survival
11 Divinity Ave
Cambridge MA 02138
USA
Sahabat alam Malaysia
37 Lorong Birch
10250 Penang
Malaysia