The Pacific won a landmark climate case at the world's top court. Now they want countries to act. | Grist
“Our homes, cultures, and ways of life are at the front lines of a crisis we did not cause,” said Belyndar Rikimani, of the Solomon Islands and one of the founders of the Vanuatu student group that pushed for the successful ICJ climate ruling.
#ClimateChange #Pasifika #Oceania #Indigenous #COP30 #ICJ #ClimateJustice
the Hōkūle'a ocean-going waka and sister vessel Hikianalia arrived on Friday afternoon to a colourful and sometimes emotional ceremony that combined Māori and Hawaiian rituals:
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/578967/hawaiian-voyaging-canoe-welcomed-back-to-waitangi
settler expert on NZ punishing the Cook Islands by withholding funding: "I think it's very hard for New Zealand not to come across as a little bit paternalistic, a little bit patronising, and a little bit like a bully on this."
"Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era representative Maureen Penjueli: the Pacific Ocean is being hyper-militarised and there is a desire for seabed minerals to be used to build-up military capacity."
“Across the Pacific, the story of climate change is one of ingenuity as much as one of survival. But that’s not enough. The answers and action must come from the whole world”
— Jamie Tahana
https://e-tangata.co.nz/comment-and-analysis/giving-up-isnt-an-option-for-the-pacific/
Marli Olive Wesley: “We are heirs to navigators, rebels, and chiefs who reimagined the world, yet too often we hand our allegiance to men who would erase us from theirs.”
https://e-tangata.co.nz/comment-and-analysis/faith-survival-and-misplaced-allegiance/
"Some will say: as #Christians, we are called to grace. That we should offer sympathy no matter what. But grace does not mean blindness. Grace does not mean pretending harm was never done. Grace is not silence in the face of oppression. To extend grace without truth is not compassion — it is complicity. It is siding with empire while convincing ourselves we are siding with God." #Pasifika #Religion #Spirituality #Christianity #Politics #Colonialism #MarliWesley https://marliwesley.substack.com/p/when-pasifika-weep-for-empire
Fiji is in an HIV crisis situation. and the international community could do more to help
Jackson Garden-Bachop on grief, family and life after brother Connor’s death
Jackson Garden-Bachop said: “He annoyed the s*** out of me wh…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #after #also #and #aware #away #beloved #brother #child #connor #connors #couldnt #Death #died #excited #family #fourth #from #gardenbachop #grief #hes #Jackson #last #Life #moana #moment #more #NewZealand #NZ #on #painfully #pasifika #player #share #unexpectedly #weeks #welcoming #with #wont #year
https://www.newsbeep.com/150932/
it has been nearly a year since the HMNZS Manawanui sank off the southcoast of Upolu in Samoa.
people living in affected coastal communities say their calls for fair compensation and the removal of the wreck continue to fall on un-listening ears.
Free course helps Pasifika factory workers future-proof their careers
A new government-funded training programme in Ōamaru is helping Pasifika factory workers future-proof their careers, as economic uncertainty…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #dunedin-otago #Education #NewZealand #NZ #pasifika
https://www.newsbeep.com/137211/
Joint initiative helps more Pasifika people own homes in Auckland
A joint initiative between the Government and Penina Trust aimed at boosting Pasifika home ownership has delivered a…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #auckland #housing-and-infrastructure #NewZealand #NZ #pasifika #Politics #property
https://www.newsbeep.com/135385/
Chief of War S01E07
shows how brutal white people can be
In this phenomenal series Jason Momoa has a Black American ally. They are both loyal to each other.
There are predominantly white movies / tv that still won't show Black People and POC positively.
#tv #indigenous #hawaii #blackamerican #blackpeople #pacificislanders #pasifika #blackmastodon
this isn't suspicious *at all*, going after the hearts and minds of Cook Islands *children* /s
"A charity founded by a deep sea mining company sponsored a children's book about polymetallic nodules, the rocks that could be mined."
fuck you, imperialist resource extraction nonsense headquartered in Vancouver, Canada 🖕
edit: the Marshall Islands Parliament buildings including the library and archives burned down. 👀
unfortunately the Marshall Islands does not have much capacity in firefighting and fire inspection processes, making it difficult to determine the cause of the fire.
magic ❤️ 🐋🌈
''The whales came by, they jumped out of the water to meet us. They breached and splashed into the water. And then right after that, just before we came into the [Rarotonga] harbour, the rainbows came out"
— Tua Pittman, Cook Islands master navigator
Moananuiākea crew reaches Rarotonga on four-year Pacific Ocean voyage:
Life as a Māori librarian in Trump’s America
Poet and librarian, Nicola Andrews (Ngāti Paoa, Pākehā), unfurls her life as an open education librarian at the…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #America #Books #CommentsEnabled #librarians #NewZealand #NZ #pasifika #TheSpinoffEssay
https://www.newsbeep.com/63558/
Cook Islands PM at 60th Celebrations: we don't intend to break from free association with NZ
