SOLIDARITY ACTION AGAINST MISSIONARIES
ANNE BONNEY | 17.10.2002 13:14
On 11th October more than fifty people met up to take direct action against the New Tribes Mission (NTM) at the UK Headquarters in Grimsby. This was in solidarity with the resistant indigenous people of the Philippines, West Papua and Bougainville.
New Tribes Mission have stated that it is their intent to reach and preach to every tribe on the planet by 2025, such as the Agta of Northern Luzon and tribes in Mindanao. They build airstrips in jungles, have their own planes to ferry about first missionaries and then businessmen, coca-cola and miltary. First comes Christianity and then come the corporations.
The people of West Papua have declared missionaries one of the 4 biggest threats to free peoples. NTM are as responsible as mining companies and logging companies for ecological and cultural destruction.
The protestors visited the NTM wearing West Papuan masks, invaded the offices and occupied them. They severely outnumbered the missionaries working there. It is now reported that essential information and equipment was removed from their offices which will prove valuable research and information for resistance to them. Other people sabotaged and damaged essential computer hardware, software and other office equipment. Others argued with workers. Some others demonstrated outside or in the village nearby with banners.
All the protestors left the scene without any arrests, although missionaries attempted - and failed - to stop people leaving.
This invasion and economic sabotage was part of a week of action to support the SOuth Pacific. The South Pacific is not only one of the most environmentally sensitive areas of the planet but home to some of the last gatherer-hunters - and also to massive resistance.
Other actions reported this week included an occupation of the Indonesian Embassy in London and a blockade of the mining giants RTZ in Wales.
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New Tribes Mission have stated that it is their intent to reach and preach to every tribe on the planet by 2025, such as the Agta of Northern Luzon and tribes in Mindanao. They build airstrips in jungles, have their own planes to ferry about first missionaries and then businessmen, coca-cola and miltary. First comes Christianity and then come the corporations.
The people of West Papua have declared missionaries one of the 4 biggest threats to free peoples. NTM are as responsible as mining companies and logging companies for ecological and cultural destruction.
The protestors visited the NTM wearing West Papuan masks, invaded the offices and occupied them. They severely outnumbered the missionaries working there. It is now reported that essential information and equipment was removed from their offices which will prove valuable research and information for resistance to them. Other people sabotaged and damaged essential computer hardware, software and other office equipment. Others argued with workers. Some others demonstrated outside or in the village nearby with banners.
All the protestors left the scene without any arrests, although missionaries attempted - and failed - to stop people leaving.
This invasion and economic sabotage was part of a week of action to support the SOuth Pacific. The South Pacific is not only one of the most environmentally sensitive areas of the planet but home to some of the last gatherer-hunters - and also to massive resistance.
Other actions reported this week included an occupation of the Indonesian Embassy in London and a blockade of the mining giants RTZ in Wales.
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Patronising nonsense
17.10.2002 13:49
I look forward to these brave souls taking direct action against that other proselytising faith, Islam.
Barnabas
Barnabas, you are the weakest link
17.10.2002 17:32
Is it not patronising to think that people who have gotten along without Missionaries, for somereason require them now?
Because of the way Missionaries historically operate (mendacity, commonly), to say that a solidarity action patronises the SP locals is like saying that actions against the IMF patronise people who are impoverished by it's activities.
Perhaps people living under the Manchester Aiport flight path feel patronised by Londoners taking direct action at the DOT offices because they, through ordinary democratic mechanisms have voiced objection to expansion and have been overruled.
bobby
FURTHER ACTIONS
18.10.2002 07:49
Where the freaks live (i.e. where they evangelize-
If people want to take part in internet actions against these people, then the second link, above, links indidual missionaries websites, which are much more 'readable', ahem.
Is it these people that actually build airstrips? Thought it would be more on lines of Missionary Aviation Fellowship, Biggin Hill, Kent.
NO GODS, NO MASTERS, NO RELIGIONS
@lex
Homepage:
WWW.NTM.ORG
Did the Papal Inquistion
18.10.2002 15:24
Radical missionaries and Liberation Theologians have argued that the concept of the One God can serve a basis for unfiying people; unfortunately, the underlying counterthesis, of Original Sin, undermines the whole movement before it even starts. Ultimately, christianity helps to demoralise oppressed people
Zoroaster
More info
20.10.2002 15:50
They are customer of
Poul and Carol Joensen working with New Tribes Mission
Poul and Carol went to Papua New Guinea (PNG) to serve with New Tribes Mission (NTM) in February 1996 to commence their work with the Sorimi Tribe, a small isolated tribal group in the East Sepik Province. As the Sorimi language is, as yet, unwritten, Poul and Carol along with colleagues Jim and Erin Wyly are having to start right at the beginning with learning the language and eventually forming an alphabet and written language.
Poul and Carol Joensen
NTM
PO Box 625
WEWAK
ESP 531
Papua New Guinea
Colin and Brenda Lamb working with New Tribes Mission
Colin and Brenda worked with New Tribes Mission (NTM) in Papua New Guinea from 1975-1992, first in tribal work amongst the Dom people and then in mission leadership. After returning to England because of Colin's Health, they began working in Latvia in 1993. They lived there from 1993-1995 and were involved in leadership training, Bible teaching and English teaching, and helping Baptist churches set up a Church Planting Training Centre in the east of Latvia.
They are now serving full-time again with New Tribes Mission. In February 1999 they moved to North Cotes, south of Grimsby, where the mission was buying a new property. Colin as Director of the Cross Cultural Communication (CCC) course is working on the development of the curriculum as well as teaching several subjects. Brenda teaches English to some of the foreign students and is preparing the Literacy Course to be taught in 2001.
Colin and Brenda Lamb
Meadow View
Keeling Street
North Somercotes
Lincs
LN11 7QU
WHY NOT DROP THEM A FRIENDLY LETTER, SUGGESTING THAT MAYBE INDIGENOUS NEW GUINEANS DO NOT WANT SAVING OF THEIR SOULS, ALONG WITH DISEASE INFESTED BLANKETS, AND ARMY AIRSTRIPS IN THEIR FIELDS
OPMSG