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Self-determination for the Pacific Islands
By
Jesse Lokahi Heiwa
Published Mar 2, 2005 3:07 PM
March 1 is commemorated annually as
Nuclear Free & Independent Pacific Day, calling for the end to nuclear
testing by the imperialist powers that control the region such as Britain,
France, Australia and the United States.
The United States controls Amer
ican Samoa, Aleutian Islands, Belau (Palau), Guam, Hawai'i, Kalama (Johnston
Atoll), Marshall Islands, Micronesia, and the North ern Marianas and has bases
in Okinawa and troops in the Philippines.
The Nuclear Free &
Independent Pacific--NFIP--movement gathers every three years. Some of its
demands include support for the Maori people of Aotearoa (New Zealand) for
sovereignty, supporting Aboriginal peoples in Australia, organizing against
hazardous waste disposal from the outside imperialist powers that control the
region, demanding full disclosure of the health effects of nuclear testing by
France and the United States, opposing the United States' and France's call to
terminate the United Nations Decoloni zation Committee and to reinscribe Te Ao
Maohi (French Poly nesia) and Hawai'i to the list of non-self-governing
territories.
Another particular concern is rising sea levels caused by
capitalist production methods, which threaten the very existence of some Pacific
Island nations and peoples.
The people of the Pacific Islands, like all
oppressed nations and peoples, call on those living within the imperialist
countries to stand in solidarity with their struggles for justice and
self-determination. For more information about the struggle in Hawai'i (with
links to other Pacific Islands concerns), go to www.Hawaii-Nation.org. You can
also join the listserve/network, Hawaii Soli darity Committeesubscribe@ yahoo
groups.com based on the U.S. mainland.
Free the Land!
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