Left: On February 1, 2008, ETAN demonstrates at the Indonesian Consulate in New York to call for justice for Suharto's many victims. Right: ETAN's John M. Miller (with bullhorn),calls for the safe return of East Timorese refugees, January 2000 at the Indonesian Consultae in New York. Protests also took place in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Houston and Washington, DC.

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Madison, WI

“Tour de Timor” Sister-City Bike Ride Set for Sunday May 18

Event Will Help Fund First Delegation of Timorese Leaders to Madison
 

What:  “Tour de Timor” bike ride fundraiser for Madison’s sister-city of Ainaro, East Timor (in Southeast Asia)

When:  Sunday, May 18, starting at 1:00 pm

Where:  Start at the WORT Block Party (near corner of Bedford and Doty Streets), and ride around Lake Monona (approx. 13 miles)

Cost:  $20 registration fee (all riders receive a T-shirt); riders are encouraged to collect pledges (forms at www.aideasttimor.org); the highest pledge-raisers receive prizes

For more information:  See www.aideasttimor.org, call 608-241-2473 or email madison@etan.org

The eighth annual “Tour de Timor” bike ride will be held on Sunday, May 18, starting at 1:00 pm at the WORT Block Party, near the corner of Bedford and Doty Streets in Madison.  Participants will ride around Lake Monona and raise funds for a “reverse delegation” where two Ainaro community leaders will visit Madison.

For a $20 registration fee, participants will receive an organic, union-made Tour de Timor T-shirt.  Participants are also encouraged to collect pledges.  The highest pledge-raisers will receive prizes from Tour de Timor co-sponsors, including gift certificates from Revolution Cycles, Family Farm Defenders, Rainbow Bookstore Cooperative, and A Taste of Asia restaurant; subscriptions to The Progressive magazine; and fair trade coffee from Just Coffee.  Madison’s community radio station, WORT 89.9 fm, is also supporting the event, which will start and end at the station’s annual Block Party.  More information and pledge sheets can be found at www.aideasttimor.org.

This year’s Tour de Timor will raise funds for a very special event -- the first sister-city “reverse delegation” of Timorese community leaders to Madison.  Tentatively scheduled for this June, the delegation will include Father Soares, a Catholic priest who’s currently working to establish a youth training center in Ainaro; and Maria Pereira, a women’s rights and sustainable agriculture activist who works with the Gardeners of Eden Seed Project.  The seed project helps rural Timorese families to grow diverse food crops for themselves and for sale at local markets.

Madison has a long history of solidarity with East Timor.  In 1992, during the U.S.-supported Indonesian military occupation of East Timor, one of the first local chapters of ETAN / U.S. formed in Madison.  In 2001, Madison and Ainaro formed the first official sister-city relationship between U.S. and East Timorese communities. The Madison-Ainaro Sister-City Alliance, a project of ETAN / Madison, has organized three delegations to Ainaro and helped Madison fair trade coffee roasters Just Coffee organize delegations to East Timor. Previous Tour de Timor bike rides have raised thousands of dollars for a joint international / Timorese election observer project, Ainaro women’s income-generation projects, sustainable agriculture groups, a community radio station, and other vital community-led projects in Ainaro, East Timor.
 

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