From: http://www.state.gov/r/pa/plrmo/2012/184182.htm Fact Sheet Bureau of Public Affairs February 16, 2012 “…our problems have never respected dividing lines between global economics and international diplomacy. And neither can our solutions. That is why I have put what I call economic statecraft at the heart of our foreign policy agenda.” –Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton...
Moana Nui Action Alliance (MNAA-CA), West Papua Action, January 17, 2012. On January 17th, 2006, forty-three West Papuans circumnavigated their homeland before beaching their traditional canoe ‘Exodus’ on the Australian mainland at Mapoon in far north Queensland. In solidarity with the 43 who have risked their lives to expose the corruption and human rights...
Moana Nui Statement 2011/11/29 Sign the Moana Nui Statement Petition We, the peoples of Moana Nui, connected by the currents of our ocean home, declare that we will not cooperate with the commodification of life and land as represented by APEC’s predatory capitalistic practices, distorted information and secret trade negotiations and agreements. We invoke...
The lines in the sand have been drawn, let’s hope the wave of resistance can wash them away… Haven’t done a repost in a long time– but this sets the stage. If we do not voice our opposition, that line in the sand may very well be our prison. This is the new Pacific...
Two years ago, in 2009, Hawai’i sovereignty rights and independence advocates made a public stand in opposition to Hawai’i Statehood. What Statehood represented was the forced or unwitting coercion of Hawaiians to accept statehood by the United States as the legitimate form of governance without receiving any understanding of what alternatives were afforded through...
Making Waves Video with Victor Menotti on APEC Hawaii 2011, Moana Nui, militarization, the U.N. Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, and Pacific economic opportunities, and fundamentals on trade and globalization.
What You Haven’t Heard About APEC View on Olelo Net Manu Kai’ama moderates a discussion about APEC, Hawai’i, and the negative effects of globalization with Jon Osorio, Professor of Hawaiian History at the University of Hawai’i, Kamakakuokalani Center for Hawaiian Studies and Chair for Pua Mohala I Ka Po, and Victor Minotti, director of the...
How Does APEC Benefit or Harm Hawaii and other Pacific Islands? download pamphlet The impact of the APEC forum will provide Hawaii’s business and finance community with some economic gains, but it will do so at the expense of long-term environmental consequences while furthering economic disparities. Behind the friendly appearance of its website and...
Vietnam has called on the US and other nations to help resolve the escalating territorial disputes in the resource-rich South China Sea, in a move likely to anger Beijing, which opposes what it sees as outside interference. China claims almost the entire South China Sea, which also borders on the Philippines, Malaysia, Brunei, Indonesia...
The Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership (TPPA) was signed in 2005 between Chile, New Zealand, Brunei and Singapore, which is considered a “pathfinder” agreement initiated by APEC, and will likely be signed in Honolulu in Nov. 2011 by the US, Australia, Vietnam, Malaysia…possibly Canada, Peru, Japan and other Pacific Rim countries. I recently asked a...
Colonialism 4.0 In November 2011, the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) will be holding their meeting here. On the agenda is the signing of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP). To be clear, TPP is not an APEC initiative. However, it is considered a pathfinder for the proposed Free-Trade Area of the Asia Pacific (FTAAP), which...
A poem by Epeli Hau’ofa that is both pastoral and speaks to the effects of colonialism in the Pacific. Our Father Bent the Winds Only yesterday The Sands of Sopu brightened the shores of Nuku’alofa, Horse-drawn carts crawled half-awake the green roads, And we sent men and money to Missions abroad. Our fathers bent...