Call Out for a Pasifika Indymedia

Amazing social and environmental movements are fighting in many places in the pacific. In Tonga a revolution seems possible, in Tahiti people know what fighting imperialism means, West Papua is struggling for independence from Indonesia, and the coconut revolution of Bougainville is simply stunning!

The capitalist media is fucked, obviously. And the governments don't like dissent. In Tonga, the biggest independent newspaper (Te Taimi o Tonga) was banned for years and is still published in Auckland. People have been arrested for handing out Te Taimi in the past.

Alternative and independent media is, as we all know, a key to freedom. Indymedia could be a way for people in the Pacific to publish their own news that then can be read everywhere. It could strengthen their movements locally and they could link with movements from all around the world.

In it's conceptual stage at present, a Pacifika IMC page has been set up here:
docs.indymedia.org/view/Aotearoa/IndymediaPasifika

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