An afternoon of films, talks and discussion on the struggles taking place in West Papua, Bouganville and other areas of the Pacific.
Sunday 28th March
Wrangthorne Community Hall, St Augustine’s Church
(Hyde Park corner) Leeds
4.30pm onwards
Kids welcome
Accessible venue
Solidarity South Pacific are about active solidarity with indigenous and radical ecological struggles in the pacific. We aim primarily to aid the West Papuan struggle, tribal and ecological struggle in the Philippines; and to bring attention to the revolution on Bouganville.
Films
Hell in the Pacific
Pollution from RTZ’s copper mine on the island of Bouganville has been a focus of seething resentment since 1988. Despite overriding local objections, extractors moved in, unannounced, to develop a new island gold mine using cyanide.
The Coconut Revolution
Another more recent film about Bouganville this is the modern-day story of a native peoples' remarkable victory over Western Colonial power. A Pacific island rose up in arms against giant mining corporation Rio Tinto Zinc (RTZ) - and won despite a military occupation and blockade. When RTZ decided to step up production at the Panguna Mine on the island of Bougainville, they got more than they bargained for. The island's people had enough of seeing their environment ruined and being treated as pawns by RTZ
Freedom for West Papua
For over thirty years the tribes of West Papua have been resisting the destruction of their land and peoples by multinational corporations and the Indonesian military. In the jungles the guerrillas of the OPM (Free Papua Movement) fight a western armed military with long bows and their knowledge of the land. This film produced by Solidarity South Pacific is about that struggle.
Food and refreshments will be available
Entry by donation.
Flyer Download Here
Wrangthorne Community Hall, St Augustine’s Church
(Hyde Park corner) Leeds
4.30pm onwards
Kids welcome
Accessible venue
Solidarity South Pacific are about active solidarity with indigenous and radical ecological struggles in the pacific. We aim primarily to aid the West Papuan struggle, tribal and ecological struggle in the Philippines; and to bring attention to the revolution on Bouganville.
Films
Hell in the Pacific
Pollution from RTZ’s copper mine on the island of Bouganville has been a focus of seething resentment since 1988. Despite overriding local objections, extractors moved in, unannounced, to develop a new island gold mine using cyanide.
The Coconut Revolution
Another more recent film about Bouganville this is the modern-day story of a native peoples' remarkable victory over Western Colonial power. A Pacific island rose up in arms against giant mining corporation Rio Tinto Zinc (RTZ) - and won despite a military occupation and blockade. When RTZ decided to step up production at the Panguna Mine on the island of Bougainville, they got more than they bargained for. The island's people had enough of seeing their environment ruined and being treated as pawns by RTZ
Freedom for West Papua
For over thirty years the tribes of West Papua have been resisting the destruction of their land and peoples by multinational corporations and the Indonesian military. In the jungles the guerrillas of the OPM (Free Papua Movement) fight a western armed military with long bows and their knowledge of the land. This film produced by Solidarity South Pacific is about that struggle.
Food and refreshments will be available
Entry by donation.
Flyer Download Here
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