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July 28, 2021
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk After his release from prison in South Africa and he became inaugural president of the majority rule government with the abolition of apartheid, Nelson Mandela declared in a speech in 1997: “We know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians.” Founding Halt All Racist Tours ... <a title="1981 Springbok tour protests revisited – and now Palestine is the new struggle" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/28/1981-springbok-tour-protests-revisited-and-now-palestine-is-the-new-struggle/" aria-label="Read more about 1981 Springbok tour protests revisited – and now Palestine is the new struggle">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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June 19, 2021
Tagata Pasifika They were the face of a generation growing up in a new land. They were the Polynesian Panthers, young activists fighting against social and racial injustice in Aotearoa New Zealand. Fifty years on, they’re back to share their struggles and triumphs as we look back on their legacy. From 1971-1974, the Polynesian Panthers ... <a title="Tagata Pasifika Special: Celebrating 50 years of the Polynesian Panthers" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/19/tagata-pasifika-special-celebrating-50-years-of-the-polynesian-panthers/" aria-label="Read more about Tagata Pasifika Special: Celebrating 50 years of the Polynesian Panthers">Read more</a>
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June 17, 2021
The Polynesian Panther Party will hold a three-day fonotaga commemoration event this weekend at the University of Auckland’s Fale Pasifika. Whakaako kia Whakaora – Educate to Liberate. Image: RNZ/Polynesian Panthers Dawn Raid apology The Panthers’ golden jubilee couldn’t be more forthcoming, given an announcement made this week of a formal government apology for the 1970s ... <a title="50 years of the Polynesian Panthers: ‘It was a time of revolution’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/17/50-years-of-the-polynesian-panthers-it-was-a-time-of-revolution/" aria-label="Read more about 50 years of the Polynesian Panthers: ‘It was a time of revolution’">Read more</a>
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May 29, 2021
By David Robie in Auckland Bananas, balaclavas and banners … these were stock-in-trade for human rights activists of the New Zealand-based Coalition for Democracy in Fiji who campaigned against then Colonel Sitiveni Rabuka’s original two coups in 1987 and the “banana republic” coup culture that emerged. Many of the activists, politicians, trade unionists, civil society ... <a title="Days of Fiji ‘banana republic’ protests remembered in Bavadra reunion" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/29/days-of-fiji-banana-republic-protests-remembered-in-bavadra-reunion/" aria-label="Read more about Days of Fiji ‘banana republic’ protests remembered in Bavadra reunion">Read more</a>
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May 29, 2021
By Charles Maniani in Manokwari, West Papua A joint unit of Indonesian military and police have broken up a West Papuan rally against the extension of special autonomy and at least 140 demonstrators were arrested – but later released. The detainees were taken to the West Papua regional police Mobile Brigade (Brimob) command headquarters after ... <a title="Police break up protest against Papua special autonomy, 140 arrested" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/29/police-break-up-protest-against-papua-special-autonomy-140-arrested/" aria-label="Read more about Police break up protest against Papua special autonomy, 140 arrested">Read more</a>
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May 24, 2021
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk Activists from the Papua People’s Solidarity (Sorak) have protested against Indonesia’s policies in the Papuan region, militarism and Israel’s war on Palestine, likening it to the West Papuan struggle against colonialism. The protest against Special Autonomy (Otsus) was held in front of the Merdeka building in the West Java provincial capital ... <a title="Protest in Bandung rejects Papuan Otsus, militarism, war on Palestine" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/24/protest-in-bandung-rejects-papuan-otsus-militarism-war-on-palestine/" aria-label="Read more about Protest in Bandung rejects Papuan Otsus, militarism, war on Palestine">Read more</a>
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May 17, 2021
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk About 4000 protesters took part in demonstrations across New Zealand at the weekend calling on the government to take action over the Israel-Palestine conflict, and close the Israeli embassy. The rallies marked what Palestinians call Nakba Day, or “Catastrophe” – recalling the loss of their homeland in 1948, when Israel was ... <a title="Palestinians in NZ stage rallies protesting against Israeli ‘brutality’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/17/palestinians-in-nz-stage-rallies-protesting-against-israeli-brutality/" aria-label="Read more about Palestinians in NZ stage rallies protesting against Israeli ‘brutality’">Read more</a>
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May 12, 2021
COMMENTARY: By Marilyn Garson I woke up to the news and fear cut into me for my family in Israel. Where are they right now? I felt one moment of the fear that Palestinians live with. No false equivalence: nothing about this is equal. In video, Israeli police are heavily armed and armoured, backed by ... <a title="Marilyn Garson: Nakba is an event in the present tense – in Jerusalem and in Gaza" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/12/marilyn-garson-nakba-is-an-event-in-the-present-tense-in-jerusalem-and-in-gaza/" aria-label="Read more about Marilyn Garson: Nakba is an event in the present tense – in Jerusalem and in Gaza">Read more</a>
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April 29, 2021
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk One of the world’s first deep sea mining pilot tests has resulted in a huge machine being stuck on the seafloor of the Pacific Ocean, reports Greenpeace. A broken cable has resulted in the mining company Global Sea Mineral Resources (GSR) losing control of its 25-tonne robot “nodule collector” Patania II ... <a title="25-tonne deep sea mining robot ‘stuck’ on Pacific Ocean seabed during trial" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/04/29/25-tonne-deep-sea-mining-robot-stuck-on-pacific-ocean-seabed-during-trial/" aria-label="Read more about 25-tonne deep sea mining robot ‘stuck’ on Pacific Ocean seabed during trial">Read more</a>
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April 27, 2021
By Ryan Aditya in Jakarta Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (Kontras) coordinator Fatia Maulidiyanti has condemned the invitation to Myanmar coup leader General Min Aung Hlaing to attend the ASEAN ministerial conference in Jakarta at the weekend as revealing Indonesia’s true colours — that it is accepting of human rights violators. “Min ... <a title="Indonesia slammed for inviting Myanmar coup leader to ASEAN" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/04/27/indonesia-slammed-for-inviting-myanmar-coup-leader-to-asean/" aria-label="Read more about Indonesia slammed for inviting Myanmar coup leader to ASEAN">Read more</a>
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April 23, 2021
Papuan protesters outside the United Nations headquarters yesterday after John Anari was gagged again from making a full statement at the UN Permanent Forum for Indigenous Issues. Image: Screenshot from the WPLO YouTube channel COMMENT: By Andrew Johnson Gagged again! West Papuan Liberation Organisation (WPLO) representative John Anari was allowed to introduce himself at the ... <a title="Papuan protest outside UN after Anari gagged for second time" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/04/23/papuan-protest-outside-un-after-anari-gagged-for-second-time/" aria-label="Read more about Papuan protest outside UN after Anari gagged for second time">Read more</a>
