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In May, 2013, the International Forum on Globalization (IFG), in collaboration with a broad range of indigenous and small island peoples of the Pacific, and joined by activists from countries throughout the Pacific Basin, will sponsor and produce a three-day series of public events in San Francisco. These events will be a continuation of the first Moana Nui gathering in Honolulu, November 2011, at prominent Civil Society venues, Calvary by the Sea, Church of the Crossroads, and the Kamakakuokalani Center for Hawaiian Studies at the University of Hawaii—which IFG created in partnership with Pua Mohala I Ka Pō and several other Pacific Island activist groups.Moana Nui #1 gathered 500 Pacific activists from 17 countries for three days of spirited public meetings, collaborative organizing, protest marches, and long term campaign planning. The events received enormous attention and praise in the Pacific region, and formed a unique bond among peoples who may live thousands of miles apart, across the sea, and had rarely attempted to join forces before. We are eager to continue.The direct purpose of Moana Nui is to respond to growing threats impacting Oceania and Pacific peoples. Recent shifts in United States economic and military strategies are having broad negative effects on the peoples, bio-diversity, resources, economies and geo-politics of the Asia-Pacific region. These policy shifts, mostly under the Obama Administration program, “The Pacific Pivot,” particularly affects the future viability and sovereignty of indigenous peoples and small nations of the Pacific, and accelerate dangerous power struggles underway between the United States and China, and potentially Russia, over trade, ocean and island resources, and the economic and military domination of an area one-third the total surface of the earth .Moana Nui is created in direct response to this Pacific Pivot. Its primary goals are: 1) to stimulate new collaborations among Pacific Island peoples and nations, toward common purposes in regard to their resources, cultures and sovereignty, and 2) to wake-up U.S. mainland policy-makers, activists and media —mostly still oblivious to the details– about what is underway in the Pacific right now, and to initiate contacts and support for the indigenous and Pacific Small Island States peoples struggle to protect their environments, and to retain control of their experience.The event will feature three days of speakers, workshops, rallies and celebration. As the great Tongan-Fijian Epeli Hauʻofa writes: “human reality is human creation, if we fail to create our own reality someone else will do it for us”.
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SCHEDULE OF EVENTS (Partial List; Subject to Change)
Friday, May 31One-day“Open Space”program. Location and details to be determined.
Saturday, June 1--Teach-In
10-11:00AMWELCOME & OVERVIEW:WHY ARE WE HERE?
VICTORIA TAULI CORPUZ: Igorot, Tebtebba Foundation, (Philippines)JON OSORIO: Kanaka Maoli, Chair, Hawaiian Studies, U. of HawaiiMOANA JACKSON: Maori Aotearoa, (New Zealand)JERRY MANDER: Int’l Forum on Globalization, (U.S.)
11:00-1:15PMPacific Resource Wars
ANURADHA MITTAL: Oakland Institute: Asia-Pacific Land Grabbing, (India/U.S.)ROSA KOIAN: Kombigo, (Papua, New Guinea)WALTER RITTE: Kanaka Maoli, (Hawaii)GALINA ANGAROVA: Buryat, Pacific Environment, (Siberia/Mongolia)GEMMA TILLACK: Rainforest Action Netk, (U.S.)RICHARD HEINBERG: Post Carbon Inst. (U.S.)
The International Forum on Globalization andPua Mohala I Ka Po present:
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MOANA NUI 2013— [Moana Nui is Polynesian for “Great Ocean”]
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Peoples of the Pacific---Confronting Militarization, Resource Theft, Globalization & America’s “Pacific Pivot”
45 SPEAKERS/ 20 NATIONS: JUNE 1 & 2[Berkeley, Martin Luther King Auditorium, 1781 Rose St.]
3:15-5:30PMIndigenous Rights, Local Sovereignty, and “Free, Prior & Informed Consent”
RALPH REGENVANU: Ni Vanuatu, Minister of Lands, Geology, Mines, Energy and Water, (Vanuatu)JULIAN AGUON: Chamorro, (Guam)HERMAN WAINGGAI: Melanesian, (W. Papua, New Guinea)MELISSA NELSON: Anishinaabe, Cultural Conservancy, (U.S.)CORRINA GOULD: Ohlone, (U.S.)VICTORIA TAULI CORPUZ: Igorot, (Philippines)Q’ORIANKA KILCHER: Quechua, Actress, (U.S.)
5:30-7:30 PMMilitarization---The New “Pacific Pivot”
KYLE KAJIHIRO: Hawaii Peace and Justice, (Hawaii)DAVID VINE: author, Island of Shame, (U.S.)TRINI TORRES: Chamorro, (Guam)DANTE SIMBULAN: (Philippines)MANUEL YANG: Okinawan, (U.S.)BRUCE GAGNON: Global Network, (U.S.)AKIHIKO KIMIJIMA: Ritsumeikan Univ., (Japan)
12:00-2:00PMPacific Island Resistance Movements
WALTER RITTE: Kanaka Maoli, (Hawaii)ROSA MOIWEND: Malind (W. Papua, New Guinea)PAUL O’TOKO: Chuukese, (Fed. States of Micronesia)TERRI KEKO’OLANI: Kanaka Maoli, (Hawaii)JULIAN AGUON: Chamorro (Guam)JEJU ISLAND DELEGATES (S. Korea)
2:00-4:30PMCross-Pacific Collaborations---A New Pacific Monitoring Authority & Other Proposals
MOANA JACKSON: Maori Aotearoa, (New Zealand)SANTI HITORANGI: Maohi Rapanui, (Easter Island)ALI’TASI STEWART: Samoan, (New Zealand)MICHAEL LEON GUERRERO: Chamorro, Grassroots Global Justice Alliance, (U.S.)LOA NIUMEITALU: Tongan, (U.S.)MIYOKO SAKASHITA: Center for Bio. Diversity, (U.S.)MELISSA NELSON: Anishinaabe, Cultural Conservancy, (U.S.)VICTOR MENOTTI: Int’l Forum on Globaliz’n, (U.S.)JON OSORIO: Kanaka Maoli (Hawaii) Chair, Hawaiian Studies, U. of Hawaii
4:30-6:00PM OPEN DISCUSSION/NEW IDEAS������������������������������� ������������� Discussion from the Floor: What Shall We Do?�������������������������
6:00PM Summaries & Closing Remarks
7:30-10:00PM60 Years Anniversary Endless U.S. War in Korea: To Control the Pacific
CHRISTINE AHN: Global Fund for Women, (U.S.)FILM: “Memory of Forgotten War” (37 min.) BRUCE CUMINGS: author, Dominion from Sea to Sea: Pacific Ascendancy and U.S. PowerCHRISTINE HONG: Korea Policy Institute, UC Santa Cruz, (U.S.)KOOHAN PAIK: IFG, (U.S.)DELEGATION FROM: JEJU ISLAND PROTEST MOVEMENT (S. Korea)CLOSING SONG: DOHEE LEE, Tamna Traditional Korean singer, Jeju Island
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Sunday, June 2--Teach-In10:00-12:00PMHegemonic Battles for Pacific Domination: U.S., China, Russia, Indonesia, JapanVs. Pacific Peoples
WALDEN BELLO: Philippines LegislatureJOSEPH GERSON: American Friends Service Committee, (U.S.)DALE WEN: IFG, (China)RALPH REGENVANU: Ni Vanuatu, Minister of Lands, Geology, Mines, Energy and Water, (Vanuatu)MICHELLE CHAN: Friends of the Earth, (U.S.)JOHN M. MILLER: East Timor and Indonesia Action Network (ETAN)
As militarization and corporate globalization rapidly advance in the Pacific, we urgently need deep collaboration and dialog with, and among, Pacific peoples. They are being directly confronted by the expansionist drives of the world’s most dominant powers (U.S., China, Russia, as well as Indonesia and Japan) all seeking economic and political control of Pacific territories. Resource battles, giant trade agreements, and rapidly accelerating preparations for wars across the region, are threatening the lands, environment, rights, cultures and sovereignties of all Pacific nations and Indigenous peoples. As the saying goes, “When elephants battle, the ants are crushed.” New resistance is required.
[Advance discount ticket information at Brown Paper Tickets, (800) 838-3006, moananui.brownpapertickets.com. For further program & speaker details see ifg.org]
VICTORIA TAULI CORPUZ Igorot (Philippines)
JON OSORIOKanaka Maoli (Hawaii)
MAUREEN PENJEULIRotuman (Fiji)
JULIAN AGUONChamorro (Guam)
MELISSA NELSONAnishinaabe (U.S.)
VICTOR MENOTTI (U.S.)
ANURADHA MITTAL(India/U.S.)
ROSA KOIAN Kombigo (Papua, New Guinea)
LOA NIUMEITALUTongan (U.S.)
RALPH REGENVANUNi Vanuatu (Vanuatu)
Jeju Island (S. Korea) Protesters vs. U.S.-Korea Military Base
Grasberg Gold Mine on Indigenous Lands in W. Papua, New Guinea, operated by U.S. corporation, Freeport McMoran 100,000 Protest U.S. Military Base on Okinawa, 2012
1:15-3:15PMGlobalization---Impacts from“Free Trade” & Development Agreements: TPP, APEC, ASEAN, EU-ACP, Pacific Plan, et al.
VICTOR MENOTTI: Int’l Forum on Globaliz’n, (U.S.)MAUREEN PENJEULI: Rotuman, Pacific Network on Globalization (PANG), (Fiji)MICHELLE CHAN: Friends of the Earth, (U.S.)ARTHUR STAMOULIS: Citizens Trade Camp’n, (U.S.)ARNIE SAIKI: Imipono Projects, (Hawaii)
Elephant Poisonings by Commercial Palm Oil Plantations, Indonesia
