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Anton William JieSamFoek
nom de plume: Anton Foek
Heritage and ethnic background:
Chinese grandfather x African grandmother
Dutch grandfather x Dutch/Jewish grandmother
Born: Paramaribo, Suriname, former colony of the Netherlands. Dutch Nationality.
Dutch passport # BA 0117981 issued in Istanbul, March 13th 2003
College: Het Nieuwe Lyceum, Hilversum, Holland
| 1960 / 1961 | Sorbonne: Contemporary History / European Culture and International relations | Paris, France |
| 1962 / 1967 | University of Amsterdam: Law | Amsterdam, the Netherlands |
| 1969 / 1970 | On location training and courses | Washington DC, USA |
| 1967 | AVRO Dutch R/TV - political / cultural documentaries in Latin America | Hilversum, the Netherlands |
| 1969 | R/TV Correspondent AVRO | Washington DC, USA |
| 1970 | R/TV Correspondent AVRO | Santiago de Chile, Chile |
| 1973 | Expulsed (after political imprisonment) from Chile | |
| 1973 / 1974 | NOS-TV International / Political desk | The Hague, the Netherlands |
| 1974 / 1976 | AVRO R/TV | Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| 1976 / 1989 | AVRO R/TV | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
| 1990 | Free lance NOS/VPRO Dutch R/TV | Amsterdam, the Netherlands |
| 1991 | Free lance NOS/VPRO Dutch R/TV | Moscow, Russia |
| 1992 | Free lance NOS/VPRO Dutch R/TV | New York City, USA |
Work examples since 1992
- 1992
- Documentaries ecology & effects in Yanomani Indians in the Amazon
- Scoop Jackal in Paraguay (George Henri Watin, the man who tried to assasinate President de Gaulle of France)
- Children and orphans of the KGB
- 1993
- Legal / illegal dumpings of nuclear waste in the Arctic region of the former Soviet Union
- Visits and report on various nuclear test sites in Russia
- Susan Rosenberg, America’s most wanted woman and political activist who provided arms to the underground struggle in America
- Effects for Civilians of landmines in developing countries Mozambique & Cambodia
- The Hanford Necklace, effects of dumping nuclear waste in Washington State
- Mumia Abu Jamal, death row black political activist
- Life in a maximum security prison: Oak Park Heights, Minnesota, USA
- Rythms of Life
- The Curse of Ham, eye witness to contemporary slavery in Saharan Africa
- 1995
- Investigation and research in the small arms plague
- Shady Arms deals in Latin America
- Harvest of Darkness, American friend of Mao imprisoned in China
- Sex Tourism & economic development in South-East Asia
- Story of Chaos
- Management and Consultancy Course Ministery Foreign Affairs - The Hague, the Netherlands
- 1996
- Barbie, made by children in Asia: Award Winning in 1998, American Humanist
- Mapping World Conflict Zones
- Schools of Peace, Palestinian & Jewish children learning to coexist
- Women resolving crisis with workshops in conflict areas
- Fundraising Project Ecaar
- Mali, economic example for Africa and destruction of Arms programs
- 1997
- The Red Line, Sudan lost paradise
- Mali, stories of the Tuareg people and the Peace truce, weapons exchange for peace
- Dancing on Deathrow, visiting death row inmates, Huntsville, Texas, USA
- James Cameron, the only man ever who survived a lynching in the USA
- Minnesota female prisoners working in tourist industry
- Montana Militia and business of arms
- Mapping Human Rights Violations World Wide
- 1998
- Indonesia, the U.S. & Europe
- South Korea, Kim Dae Jung: from political prisoner to president
- Fundraising project Ecaar
- Astrology on Wall Street, East meets West in New York City
- Privatisation U.S. prison systems, Gun proliferation in innercities
- 1999
- War in East Timor: visit with José Horta Ramos, Nobel Laureate
- Australia, Alice Springs: Aboriginals Lost Generation
- South Africa: White Wine Farmer shares wine farm with black labourers
- Visit with Bishop Tutu, Nobel Peace Laureate
- Consultancy: Human Rights violations in East Timor
- Algeria: Polisario, forgotten people looking for self determination in the Sahara
- Kalimantan: eye-witness of cannibalism / illegal import of clandestine weapons
- Puerto Rico: the island of Vieques and U.S. bombing test ground
- 2000
- Wisconsin: Frank Lloyd Wright, American architecture
- Michigan: Foreigners in the U.S. prisons
- Sillicon Valley: young Dutch enterpreneurs in the U.S.A.
- Human Rights and Change, Project with many aspects of violations and trade
- 3 months trip around the world. Visits on social consequences of migration.
- Visit with José Ramos Horta East Timor
- 2001
- Indonesia: Yogyakarta & Aceh, civil war & reconciliation
- Colombia: civil war, study organised crime
- Documentary Eastern Zaire, Refugee camps Kenia/Southern Sudan, Rwanda tribunal, the looting of the Congo: link prime materials & war
- NYC, U.N. small arms conference. Consultancy to film project on arms proliferation
- Consultancy TV Peace Project JRT productions in Pennsylvania, USA
- 2002
- Supermaximum Security Prisons and Human Rights Violations in the U.S.A.
- Argentina, political/economic chaos
- South Africa: preparing to further the battle against the aids/hiv epidemic
- Brazil: mass migration of goldminers & the destruction of the environment
- Suriname: poltical destabilization of a former colony of the Netherlands
- Fort Orange: restauration of a 17th century Dutch fort in Brazil
- Colombia: interview with Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- 2003
- Brazil: Slavery and poverty in the Amazon
- Aruba: Illegal aliens at work on this happy island
- Aruba: money laundering and corruption
- Brazil: sex tourism from Europe to Brazil
- U.S.A.: Ducth female prisoners in U.S. jails
- Cuba: Dancing lessons and denial of Cuban pre-revolutionay musicians
- U.S.A.: Toys and artificial intelligence
- Chili: September 11, 1973
Currently assigned to stories in the U.S. of A., Algeria, West Africa and South America.
In my career I have met with numerous world political and business leaders in Europe, Latin America and Asia and at the U.N. in New York,
as well as with several Nobel Laureates like Bishop Tutu and Peres Esquivel or Oscar Arias, Jan Tinbergen and José Ramos Horta.
Altogether visited some 99 countries.
Languages: Write, understand and speak fluently: Dutch, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese and Creole. Understanding Italian and Danish. Student of Russian.
Divorced with two children living in Amsterdam.
Winner Project Censored Award May 1998 Sonoma State University.
Living in New York City, USA and Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
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