This kit is designed to make supporting West Papua’s petition to be registered on the UN Decolonization List easy. It includes background information, flyers, stickers, and documents.
1. Download the hard-copy petition and ask friends, family, neighbours, co-workers to sign and to support the campaign.
2. You can wear our campaign badge when collecting signatures. Download it here.
3. Print campaign cards to distribute. Download at here. You can print them at Officeworks for 10 cents each – two cards will fit on one 6×4″ print. Use the ‘with border’ facility, and get Officeworks to guillotine them in half.
4. Write to your local MP or Senator to make them aware of the issue’s importance to you. To make things easy, we have drafted a letter you can download (click ‘save as’ to save a copy) and print to send to your MP’s office. Alternatively, you can copy the text into an email.
5. Meet with your MP. You can request meetings with your local MP or any candidates in your electorate to discuss issues that are important to you.
6. Print and take one of these postcards to give more information to your MP or candidate. You can print these at Officeworks as a 6×4″ photo print for 10 cents each. To add further information, you can print these sticky labels to add to the back of the postcards.
7. Petitions need to be returned to the West Papua Office by 31 July 2019, @ Federal Republic of West Papua, Attn: Nadine Rutter, Suite 211, 838 Collins Street, Docklands VIC 3008.
8. Know what you are talking about. Read or print Summary of West Papua as a Non-Self-Governing Territory (1950-1962) by Jacob Rumbiak. Jacob is the Co-ordinator of the West Papua Office that drafted the motion and authorised the petition.
Reflecting on 1st December 1961, West Papua’s self-determination as a Non-Self-Governing Territory
