Protecting our water in the Pacific means protecting water in Hawai'i, in Guåhan, in Ryukyu (also known as Okinawa), in the Philippines, in the Marshall Islands, in any place where there is or has been military presence.
#Demilitarize#Decolonize
After the war Māori were excluded from public facilities, such as cinemas and swimming pools, and Māori men being banned from purchasing alcohol. Māori ex-servicemen were refused entry to RSA clubrooms and did not receive medals. This is a joke.
New Zealand High Commissioner to Samoa, Si’alei Van Toor apologised to the communities affected by the sunken HMNZS Manawanui. “We are sorry,” she said. https://t.co/MsI2A1fpsq
We gained rare access into #WestPapua, a province that has been plagued by unrest for decades.
We hear from Indigenous Papuans about their struggle for independence from Indonesia.
Thanks to @seanmantesso + @sweethellena for their work on this story.
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Can't wait to get stuck in to this!
Saw the Fijian Drua CEO Mark Evans speak at the FNU Open Day a few weeks ago and man the guy dropped some interesting insights in to how they do things. One of the things that struck me was how they keep their players,
So I started a rugby day at my job cuz I wanted more Pasifika representation in the workspace and next week will be our 3rd annual rugby day and it’ll be on Fiji Day 🇫🇯
What a full circle moment!
#Teamfiji@bati_themovie a feature movie about a boxer trying to survive in Fiji. With an entirely Fijian cast & majority crew, written/directed by Andrew Ponton, this movie is releasing next year August!
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Listening to 🇸🇧 Vice Chancellor Transform Aqorau on the innovation needed to incorporate traditional Indigenous knowledge into legal systems, hybrid governance models that are culturally relevant, the integration of TK into environmental policy, and education that is place based.
More on the illegal genocidal US occupation of Hawaii, ban on our language and culture, stealing of our land, and destruction of our prosperous, advanced country in the 1890s to support yt capitalist plantations and use us as imperial military HQ. https://t.co/RkGVrlDi6n
Could someone explain why the chant USA USA that used to be a feature at republican gatherings is now a permanent feature at democrat gatherings. Is it because U.S. nationalism is essentially white imperialist nationalism & that is the common link between the parties?
Whether you vote team red or team blue, militarized fascism wins. It's Democrats that are running cop cities. Fascism is already here! Thank you @DrJillStein and @ButchWare for schooling Charlamagne and Angela Rye. They continue to run cover for Dems.