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Anti-seabed mining campaigners launch petition

On 09 Jun, 2015 By ACTNOW


Te Runanga o Ngati Ruanui Trust chairman Haimona Maruera Jnr, left, chief executive Debbie Ngarewa-Packer and environmental manager Graham Young during the EPA hearing into seabed mining last year

 

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Microbiology: why modern life is bad for your gut

On 27 Apr, 2015 By ACTNOW

 

Two more new studies confirm growing medical concerns that western lifestyle and highly processed diet destroys trillions of generally beneficial bacteria in our bodies, making us susceptible to lifestyle diseases :)

An argument that strengthens the position of land alienation causing dependency on western food? etc...

Source: FT Magazin

Photographs: Andrew Greenhill; iStock

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Leaders use their disgust of misuse of funds and corruption to empower change in their communities

On 25 Mar, 2015 By ACTNOW

More than eighty members from the local group Tropical Gem in Madang attended a ‘story session’ capacitating the depth of Papua New Guinea’s (PNG) Development History Model dating back 50, 000 years ago.

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Tropical Gem get more insight on development of PNG

On 17 Mar, 2015 By ACTNOW

Tropical Gems leaders get informed on the development timeline of Papua New Guinea. Information is Knowledge and knowledge = Power!

The ACTNOW! PNG group through its community campaigns is running a 'story session' with the local Tropical Gem group in Madang Province which has kicked off on a great note. Sharing information about PNG's Development History and the development that many of us (Papua New Guinean's) have enlightend as unfair and a struggle for land owners on our own soil.

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The Spoiling of Paradise: Can Indigenous West Papuans Survive?

On 01 Jan, 2015 By Elizabeth1

Craig Harris , a village garden in Papua

Source: Craig Harris

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NGO backs United Nations call for moratorium on new mining activity in PNG

On 10 Dec, 2014 By Elizabeth1

 

MEDIA RELEASE

10 December 2014

Community activist group ACT NOW! is supporting a call from the United Nations for a moratorium on new mining activities in Papua New Guinea but says the analysis and policy changes recommended by the global body do not go far enough.

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Marine Protected Areas in South Africa - Ocean grabbing by another name

On 24 Nov, 2014 By Elizabeth1

Picture: Women of Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa, protesting today. Photo: World Forum of Fisher Peoples - WFFP

Source: The Ecologist

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The PACIFIC HISTORY they dont teach at school

On 07 Aug, 2014 By rait man

The PACIFIC HISTORY they dont teach at school DVD out now!

Learn about the great Polynesian NAVIGATORS who were in America hundreds of years before Christopher Columbus. Learn about the lost written language of Polynesia, The RONGORONGO SCRIPT. Learn about the Polynesians who were traded as slaves In Australia. Learn about the famous LESA Court Case where the Privy Council, the highest Court in the Commonwealth, made ALL Samoans born IN Samoa New Zealand citizens! Learn about the Genocide of our Pacific Brothers and Sisters in West Papua and much more!

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Selling Our Happiness to Buy Their Development

On 03 Sep, 2012 By Klaireh

Development is a big word. It essentially depends on who is selling and who's buying the idea of ‘development’.

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Free trade is not what the Pacific needs

On 21 Jul, 2011 By tok stret

The article below by Nick Dearden argues that African prosperity relies on a wholesale rejection of the western free trade model, which is still being promoted by the USA, Europe and their economic allies like Australia.

Papua New Guinea has recently approved a new Interim Economic Partnership Agreement with the European Union and is being pressured by Australia and New Zealand to sign the  Pacific Agreement on Closer Economic Relations (PACER).

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