Wansolwara Voices for West Papua
April 21, 5:30pm - 8:30pmMānoa Campus, Halau o Haumea Kamakakuokalani Center for Hawaiian Studies
The Grasberg mine in West Papua, owned by US company Freeport-McMoRan, is the largest gold mine and third largest copper mine in the world. The profits of this mine depend upon US-endorsed Indonesian military occupation, the murder, imprisonment, and forced labor of indigenous peoples, and the dumping of thousands of tons of toxic waste into local river systems.
During the illegal occupation by the Indonesian government since 1969, over 500,000 West Papuan civilians have been killed in an attempt to suppress the West Papuan independence movement and protect corporate mining, logging, and palm oil interests. Foreign journalists and human rights workers have been banned from entering the country, creating a terrible silence around this genocide, and the 芒鈧搈odern world芒鈧 continues to blithely benefit from the bits of copper and gold essential to the constructing of our electronic devices and the building of our cities.
Join us for a night of art and performance for justice, stretching across our great and powerful Oceania.
Hui of Pacific activists and artists in Honolulu, Wellington, Aotearoa/NZ, and Suva, Fiji are uniting across Oceania to lament and rage against this genocide, connecting our different communities芒鈧劉 struggles for sovereignty and demilitarization, standing with West Papua across our 芒鈧搘ansolwara,芒鈧 our one salt water, with furious aloha.
Sponsored by: Gladys Kamakak脜芦okalani 脢禄Ainoa Brandt Center for Hawaiian Studies, Pacific Tongues, UH M脛聛noa Creative Writing Program, UH M脛聛noa Indigenous Politics
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Event Sponsor
UH Manoa Creative Writing Program, Mānoa Campus
More Information
(808) 358-0871, hawaiibleedsblackandred@gmail.com
Tuesday, April 21 |
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11:30am |
Energy and Greenhouse Gas Policy in Hawaii Mānoa Campus, Hamilton Library 301
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12:00pm |
Kihei Workshop Hawaiʻi Campus, Manono Campus, Kaneikeao Bldg 379, Rm.1
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12:00pm |
Linguistics Seminar Mānoa Campus, St. John 011
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12:30pm |
Marcia Hsu, soprano Mānoa Campus, Orvis Auditorium
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1:00pm |
Career Exploration Workshop Hawaiʻi Campus, Manono Campus Building 379 Room 1A
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1:30pm |
Civil & Environmental Engineering (Final Oral) Mānoa Campus, Holmes 287
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2:00pm |
English Final Oral Mānoa Campus, Center for Biographical Research, Henke Hall 325
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2:30pm |
Katie Yee, violin Mānoa Campus, Orvis Auditorium
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3:00pm |
Microbiology Final Oral Mānoa Campus, Crawford 115
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5:30pm |
Wansolwara Voices for West Papua Mānoa Campus, Halau o Haumea Kamakakuokalani Center for Hawaiian Studies
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7:30pm |
UH Contemporary Music Ensemble Mānoa Campus, Orvis Auditorium
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