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Janice Mae (Worth) Weidhaas, 84, passed away peacefully on Sunday, May 28, in Dublin, California.

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There are times when you walk into a nearly-empty theatre, 20 minutes before the theatre fills, and actors take the stage, and you are eager with quiet anticipation for what you are about to see.

A Polish man imprisoned by an Indonesian court in 2018 after visiting West Papua as a tourist remains languishing in a cell in Papua's remote interior.

At least, that’s how planners and politicians envisaged the highway from their Jakarta offices. President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo was so enthusiastic about the project as a cornerstone for his infrastructure strategies that he had publicity photographs taken of him astride his motorbike on the highway. But that isn’t how West Papuans see “The Road”. In reality, writes Australian journalist John Martinkus in his new book The Road: Uprising in West Papua, the highway brings military occupation by Indonesian troops, exploitation by foreign companies, environmental destruction and colon...