Pacific Ecologist Double Issue 7/8 - Winter 2004

Friday, 2 July 2004, 12:00 am
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PACIFIC ECOLOGIST DOUBLE ISSUE 7/8 - AUTUMN-WINTER 2004

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CONTENTS

Editorials

Establishing the Pacific as a Zone of Peace - KAY WEIR

Letters to the Editor

Governance & Security: A Major Challenge to Pacific Civil Society - AISAKE CASIMIRA

Indigenous peoples threatened for resources

West Papua: Forgotten Pacific Nation - threatened with genocide by JOHN RUMBIAK & ABIGAIL ABRASH WALTON

Protecting Paradise Forests - by DOROTHY TEKWIE

Cry for Acheh - ZAHARA HAMZA

Climate Change

Facing up to Climate Change on Pacific Islands - JOHN HAY, NOBUO MIMURA, JOHN CAMPBELL, SOLOMONE FIFITA, KANAYATHU KOSHY, ROGER F. MACLEAN, TAITO NAKALEVU, PATRICK NUNN & NEIL DE WET

Pacific blueprints for survival

Sustaining Culture & Biodiversity with Local & Indigenous Knowledge -R. R. THAMAN

Joining Forces to Conserve the Marine Environment - R.E. JOHANNES

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Aotearoa - Foreshore & Seabed issue

I Gave You My Bucket & Spade - Now You Want the Whole Sandpit - ANGELINE GREENSILL

Constitutional Crisis over Foreshore & Seabed in Aotearoa - RICHARD BOAST

Poverty & Millennium goals

Economic Justice - a new deal for Indigenous Australians - MARCIA LANGTON

Is poverty the problem, or wealth? - AISAKE CASIMIRA

Nauru - flotillas of hope - by RUTH BOYDELL & ZOHL DÉ ISHTAR

Media & Democracy

“Taimi ‘o Tonga” & the Future of the Rule of Law in Tonga -LOPETI SENITULI

Sword of Damocles in the Pacific - DAVID ROBIE

Nuclear threats

Stories of Earth Shaking - ALEX KELLY

NUCLEAR NIGHTMARES - POISONED LIVES, CONTAMINATED LANDS - ZOHL DÉ ISHTAR

Book Reviews/Summaries

An Honourable Accord – The Covenant between the Northern Mariana Islands & the United States By Howard P. Willens and Deanne Siemer, Reviewed by Nancy J. Pollock

Money Makes you Crazy - Custom & Change in the Solomon Islands By Ross McDonald

Akono’Anga Maori - Cook Islands Culture - Editors, Ron Crocombe & Marjorie Tua’inekore Crocombe

Black Lives, Government Lies by Rosalind Kidd

Conflict & Compromise - Essays on the Maori Since Colonisation, edited by Sir Hugh Kawharu Tuwharetoa

A History of the Maori people of the Taupo District by John Te H. Grace
Ask that Mountain - The Story of Parihaka by Dick Scott

Cultural Memory: Reconfiguring History and Identity in the Postcolonial Pacific by Jeannette Marie Mageo, reviewed by Teresia Teaiwa

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COMMENT

Binoy Kampmark: The Strawman Of Antisemitism - Banning Protests Against Israel Down Under

The beneficiaries in all of this are the noisy, bellicose members of the pro-Israel lobby, a divisive federal opposition keen to capitalise on hatreds it claims not to have, and the State of Israel itself.

Gordon Campbell: On The Coalition’s Empty Gestures, And Abortion Refusal As The New Slavery

A whooping cough story from south Auckland is a good example of the coalition government’s approach to social need.

Keith Rankin: Judaism, Antisemitism, And Israel

Israel today has arisen as a consequence of two millenniums of antisemitism in its various Christian forms. Israel is a nation-state which must abide by the same rules as any other nation state. Criticism of Israel is not antisemitism; it's criticism of the way that nation-state projects itself across the wider world.

Ian Powell: Haka, Hikoi And The Empowerment Of The Kohanga Generation

Ian Powell discusses the recent massive unprecedented hikoi in New Zealand in its wider context including the relationship between struggle, consciousness and empowerment.

Binoy Kampmark: Feeding Chaos - Israel Cripples Syria’s Defence

Crippling the infrastructure of the state that awaits the fledgling ruling parties in Syria, who can only count themselves as a ragtag transitional entity at this point, stirs an already turbulent, precarious situation. The very scenario which Netanyahu and his planners wish to avoid, and Assad sought to prevent, may well be realised.