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Workers in Indonesia Rise Up Against Freeport

Workers in Indonesia Rise Up Against Freeport

October 14, 2011

Here's what we know: Freeport MacMoRan is the world's lowest-cost copper producer and the largest gold producer in the world. Producer is a funny term, they pull it from the earth. I suppose the production label comes from everything they do to the stuff they take from the earth.. the...

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Indonesian Elections and West Papua

Indonesian Elections and West Papua

July 14, 2009

Last week Indonesians voted in only the second presidential election in their nation's history. A race between three major coalition parties, it was the Democratic Party Coalition of current President Yudhoyono that cruised to victory with 60% of the vote. A former military man who was known to many...

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