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July 23, 2021
By Ena Manuireva and Tony Fala About 35 people joined an Auckland rally last Sunday in solidarity with a Mā’ohi Nui Lives Matter demonstration by thousands of Tahitians happening in Pape’ete, the capital. In solidarity and in sync with the Pape’ete event, the Mai te Paura Atōmī i te ti’amara’a: From Bomb Contamination to Self-determination ... <a title="Nine takeaways from the Mā’ohi Nui Lives Matter solidarity rally in NZ" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/23/nine-takeaways-from-the-maohi-nui-lives-matter-solidarity-rally-in-nz/" aria-label="Read more about Nine takeaways from the Mā’ohi Nui Lives Matter solidarity rally in NZ">Read more</a>
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July 21, 2021
RNZ Pacific Several thousand people in French Polynesia have joined a march demanding France own up to the damage caused by its nuclear weapons tests. The rally yesterday was organised by nuclear veterans group and the pro-independence opposition to mark the day in 1974 when fallout from the Centaur atmospheric nuclear test covered all of ... <a title="Thousands rally in Tahiti in protest over nuclear weapons legacy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/21/thousands-rally-in-tahiti-in-protest-over-nuclear-weapons-legacy/" aria-label="Read more about Thousands rally in Tahiti in protest over nuclear weapons legacy">Read more</a>
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July 20, 2021
Source: Council on Hemispheric Affairs – Analysis-Reportage By Richard Kohn, Ph.D.From Columbia, MD Recently, there have been reports in the news media that Nicaragua is destroying its rain forests and allowing beef ranchers to convert them to pastures in the country’s vast nature reserves. A network of supposed human rights and environmental groups are calling ... <a title="Nicaragua: U.S. sanctions will disrupt sustainable beef production and reforestation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/20/nicaragua-u-s-sanctions-will-disrupt-sustainable-beef-production-and-reforestation/" aria-label="Read more about Nicaragua: U.S. sanctions will disrupt sustainable beef production and reforestation">Read more</a>
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July 19, 2021
Over the past 50 years, France has continued to deny the tragedies of nuclear testing in French Occupied Polynesia by propagating the theory of “clean nuclear tests”. Image: Youngsolwara Pacific Asia Pacific Report newsdesk Moana activists, campaigners, scholars, researchers and Green MPs gathered today in a show of solidarity for Tahiti’s Ma’ohi Lives Matter rally ... <a title="NZ nuclear-free activists, campaigners join Tahiti’s Mā’ohi Lives Matter rally" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/19/nz-nuclear-free-activists-campaigners-join-tahitis-maohi-lives-matter-rally/" aria-label="Read more about NZ nuclear-free activists, campaigners join Tahiti’s Mā’ohi Lives Matter rally">Read more</a>
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July 17, 2021
By Jean-Pierre Viatge in Pape’ete Fifteen days after Tahiti Nui’s anti-nuclear protest on July 2, the Tavini Huiraatira party has organised a march Mā’ohi Lives Matter this weekend with support from the Mā’ohi Protestant Church, Association 193 and Moruroa e Tatou. Former territorial president of Tahiti and pro-independence leader Oscar Temaru has called for an ... <a title="Temaru calls for massive turnout for Mā’ohi Lives Matter nuclear-free rally" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/17/temaru-calls-for-massive-turnout-for-maohi-lives-matter-nuclear-free-rally/" aria-label="Read more about Temaru calls for massive turnout for Mā’ohi Lives Matter nuclear-free rally">Read more</a>
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July 17, 2021
RNZ News Groundswell NZ organised the “Howl of a Protest” in more than 40 towns and cities across New Zealand over recent environmental regulations, the “ute tax” and a Pacific seasonal worker shortage. Co-founder Laurie Paterson said the “ute tax” was the issue people pointed the finger at, but farmers were also unhappy with the ... <a title="NZ farmers in tractor protest against environmental ‘ute tax’ rules" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/17/nz-farmers-in-tractor-protest-against-environmental-ute-tax-rules/" aria-label="Read more about NZ farmers in tractor protest against environmental ‘ute tax’ rules">Read more</a>
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July 14, 2021
SPECIAL REPORT: By Hele Christopher-Ikimotu I am Banaban. I come from an ancestry of survivors and a once rich land. However, Banaba died to make other nations live. The Banabans though are proud survivors and we maintain that we are a race that still lives. Google will tell you my ancestral home of Banaba is ... <a title="Banaba Island: The land that died so others could live" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/14/banaba-island-the-land-that-died-so-others-could-live/" aria-label="Read more about Banaba Island: The land that died so others could live">Read more</a>
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July 5, 2021
RNZ Pacific More than 2000 demonstrators in French Polynesia have joined a march in the capital Pape’ete to mark the 55th anniversary of the first French nuclear weapons test in the Pacific. The rally was attended by the pro-independence opposition, veterans groups and the Māohi Protestant Church — some carrying banners declaring a “crime against ... <a title="Tahiti protest rally marks France’s ‘crime against humanity’ first atomic test in Pacific" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/05/tahiti-protest-rally-marks-frances-crime-against-humanity-first-atomic-test-in-pacific/" aria-label="Read more about Tahiti protest rally marks France’s ‘crime against humanity’ first atomic test in Pacific">Read more</a>
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July 3, 2021
SPECIAL REPORT: By Ena Manuireva and Tony Fala On 27 May 2021, a significant event took place in Rwanda where French President Emmanuel Macron asked for forgiveness from the people of Rwanda after admitting for the first time that France bore a “terrible responsibility” for the deaths of hundreds of thousands in the 1994 genocide. ... <a title="Mā’ohi Nui’s search for nuclear justice – the French ‘reset’ button still to be reset" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/03/maohi-nuis-search-for-nuclear-justice-the-french-reset-button-still-to-be-reset/" aria-label="Read more about Mā’ohi Nui’s search for nuclear justice – the French ‘reset’ button still to be reset">Read more</a>
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July 2, 2021
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk Pacific regional civil society groups claim that DeepGreen, a venture capitalist company, has started “the clock ticking” with little regard for potential wide-ranging environmental damage from seabed mining in two years’ time. An aggressive push by any industry player to fast-track the conclusion of seven years of ongoing global negotiations on ... <a title="Pacific civil society groups slam ‘naked hijack’ fast-track seabed mining bid" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/02/pacific-civil-society-groups-slam-naked-hijack-fast-track-seabed-mining-bid/" aria-label="Read more about Pacific civil society groups slam ‘naked hijack’ fast-track seabed mining bid">Read more</a>
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July 2, 2021
By Walter Zweifel, RNZ Pacific reporter While a Paris roundtable about the legacy of nuclear tests at Moruroa and Fangataufa atolls is eagerly awaited by the French Polynesian government, the nuclear veterans organisations wonder whether the victims are really represented at the talks. Like every year, they will instead mark tomorrow — July 2 — ... <a title="Macron hosts French ‘truth and justice’ Pacific nuclear test legacy talks" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/02/macron-hosts-french-truth-and-justice-pacific-nuclear-test-legacy-talks/" aria-label="Read more about Macron hosts French ‘truth and justice’ Pacific nuclear test legacy talks">Read more</a>
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June 17, 2021
SPECIAL REPORT: By Mariner Fagaiava-Muller, RNZ Pacific Journalist In New Zealand, youth climate change movement School Strike 4 Climate Auckland has declared itself as racist, and disbanded, but young activists say going silent is not the answer. The group had organised large protests in centres throughout the country, becoming the biggest climate protest movement in ... <a title="Problem of racism towards Pasifika in climate change: ‘We want to be valued’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/17/problem-of-racism-towards-pasifika-in-climate-change-we-want-to-be-valued/" aria-label="Read more about Problem of racism towards Pasifika in climate change: ‘We want to be valued’">Read more</a>
