Marli Olive Wesley: “We are heirs to navigators, rebels, and chiefs who reimagined the world, yet too often we hand our allegiance to men who would erase us from theirs.”

https://e-tangata.co.nz/comment-and-analysis/faith-survival-and-misplaced-allegiance/

#Pasifika #USpol #CharlieKirk

https://mipfumo.bandcamp.com/album/the-great-pasifik-garbage-patch

#aotearoa
#hip-hop
#rap
#naarm
#beats
#independent
#hiphop
#pasifika
#rap
#worldmusic
#Reservoir

Fiji is in an HIV crisis situation. and the international community could do more to help

https://www.rnz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/574429/hiv-national-crisis-in-fiji-assistant-health-minister

#HealthCareForAll #Pasifika

Jackson Garden-Bachop on grief, family and life after brother Connor’s death

Jackson Garden-Bachop said: “He annoyed the s*** out of me wh…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #after #also #and #aware #away #beloved #brother #child #connor #connors #couldnt #Death #died #excited #family #fourth #from #gardenbachop #grief #hes #Jackson #last #Life #moana #moment #more #NewZealand #NZ #on #painfully #pasifika #player #share #unexpectedly #weeks #welcoming #with #wont #year
https://www.newsbeep.com/150932/

it has been nearly a year since the HMNZS Manawanui sank off the southcoast of Upolu in Samoa.

people living in affected coastal communities say their calls for fair compensation and the removal of the wreck continue to fall on un-listening ears.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/574033/samoa-village-elders-still-seeking-compensation-want-manawanui-wreck-removed

#Pasifika #NZ #MassiveMilitaryFuckUps

Free course helps Pasifika factory workers future-proof their careers

A new government-funded training programme in Ōamaru is helping Pasifika factory workers future-proof their careers, as economic uncertainty…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #dunedin-otago #Education #NewZealand #NZ #pasifika
https://www.newsbeep.com/137211/

Joint initiative helps more Pasifika people own homes in Auckland

A joint initiative between the Government and Penina Trust aimed at boosting Pasifika home ownership has delivered a…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #auckland #housing-and-infrastructure #NewZealand #NZ #pasifika #Politics #property
https://www.newsbeep.com/135385/

Chief of War S01E07

shows how brutal white people can be

In this phenomenal series Jason Momoa has a Black American ally. They are both loyal to each other.

There are predominantly white movies / tv that still won't show Black People and POC positively.

#tv #indigenous #hawaii #blackamerican #blackpeople #pacificislanders #pasifika #blackmastodon

this isn't suspicious *at all*, going after the hearts and minds of Cook Islands *children* /s

"A charity founded by a deep sea mining company sponsored a children's book about polymetallic nodules, the rocks that could be mined."

https://www.rnz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/571758/cook-islands-children-s-book-on-deep-sea-nodules-is-about-facts-says-author

#ResourceExtraction #ProfitMotive #CookIslands #Pasifika