Gonzalo Garcés, an Oxfam Youth Partner from Chile, gives us a brief snap shot of the Mapuche people’s struggle to protect their way of life.
Indigenous Peoples / Tangata Whenua
MĀORI LANGUAGE DECLINE AND REVITALISATION
For all people, language forms an important part of culture, and plays a crucial role in daily life as a means of effective communication.
MY PYF EXPERIENCE: A REFLECTION
I knew that my going to the PYF would be a liberating home-coming of sorts, to a place in Polynesia which is a significant part of both my family heritage and cultural identity.
PACIFIC YOUTH HOLD FAST: WE CAN’T IGNORE COLONISATION
Just Focus member Omar Hamed writes about his experience at the Pacific Youth Festival in Tahiti, and how he and another JF member, Char Clark, got caught up in the middle of the struggle for self-determination in Tahiti.
PARTYING UP AT PARIHAKA
The first Parihaka Pace Festival was held in March 2006. Rose Lawson and two friends went along to volunteer - and party…
¡YA BASTA! ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!
The Zapatistas in Mexico are part of a global wave of people standing up against a system that values profit over people and nature and striving for a global citizenry of dignity, democracy, freedom and justice.
Profile Of A Pacific Political Prisoner
By Cameron Walker
Imagine being thrown in a filthy prison, where your cell mates mysteriously ‘disappear’ overnight, just for waving your country’s flag. For many years this was a reality for my West Papuan friend Fransiskus Kandam.
Interview with an Aotearoa peacebuilder
by Annie Boanas, age 23, Wellington
Pauline Tangiora Q.S.O., Q.S.M. is a Māori elder from the Rongomaiwahine tribe on the East Coast of the North Island of Aotearoa New Zealand. She has affiliations with many other tribes. She is a Justice of the Peace, a former President and currently Vice President of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (Aotearoa), the former Regional Women’s Representative for the World Council for indigenous peoples, an Earth Charter Commissioner and a member of the Earth Council. She is a life member of the Māori Women’s Welfare League and a Patron of the Peace Foundation. She has represented Aotearoa at many international fora and was a Consultant to the International Steering Committee of the World Court Project, a legal challenge to nuclear weapons.
She has also been recently nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize.
The Treaty of Waitangi and Māori-Pākehā Relations in New Zealand
Nicole Matthewson, age 17, offers her opinion on race relations in New Zealand and National party Don Brash’s controversial Orewa Speech
