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Former PNG national Parliament regional representative for Bougainville Joe Lera . . . "We will try to make big changes in addressing sustainable development"
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"It's more than ironic that while Western countries like Britain and New Zealand are calling for an end to the war in Gaza, they continue to be hostile toward the anti-war protest movements in their own countries"
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Porirua Cemetery manager Daniel Chrisp speaks at the Family Forum beside the chapel, as Mayor Anita Baker and whānau gather to honour 1800 patients buried in unmarked graves
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Pacific leaders demand respectful involvement in memorial for unmarked graves

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The humanitarian crisis in Gaza has reached catastrophic levels
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A Rainbow Warrior shipboard protest over the Gaza genocide today
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Palestine solidarity rally greeted by Rainbow Warrior Gaza protest

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"Western media institutions promote a colonial narrative that reproduces the discourse of Israeli superiority, using linguistic and legal mechanisms to justify genocide."
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Systematic bias: how Western media reproduces the Israeli narrative

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Stéphane Hessel was a leading member of the French Resistance
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Susi Newborn, a Greenpeace founder, Rainbow Warrior crew stalwart, activist and author
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Susi Newborn among activists featured in Pacific ‘nuclear free heroes’ video

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"Hot off the press" . . . David Robie talks Eyes of Fire just after receiving the first copy of his book marking 40 years since the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior on 10 July 1985
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David Robie: New Zealand must do more for Pacific and confront...

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Zionist settllers attack Palestinian homes and cars at the village of Kafr Malik, northeast of Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank
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First-hand view of peacemaking challenge in the ‘Holy Land’

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UN peacekeepers advocated by DAWN for Gaza
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UN expert advocates peacekeeper path to break Israel’s siege on Gaza

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Protesters against Israel's genocide in Gaza and attacks on the occupied West Bank take to the streets in Devonport last weekend
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Australian bid to criminalise Palestine support creates ‘hierarchy of racism’, says...

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Author David Robie with his latest book, Eyes of Fire: The Last Voyage and Legacy of the Rainbow Warrior.
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Author condemns ‘callous’ health legacy of French, US nuclear bomb tests...

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July 11, 2025
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Greenpeace Aotearoa held a dawn ceremony on board the Rainbow Warrior III today commemorating the 40th anniversary of the bombing of the original Rainbow Warrior and the death of photographer Fernando Pereira on 10 July 1985
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Rainbow Warrior bombing by French secret agents remembered 40 years on

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The Castle Bravo test was 1000 times more powerful than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima
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The Rainbow Warrior saga. Part 2: Nuclear refugees in the Pacific...

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July 7, 2025
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West Papua human rights advocate and independence leader Octo Mote
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Legends of a Nuclear-Free and Independent Pacific – Octo Mote

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West Papua's Morning Star flag of independence
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Greenpeace Aotearoa executive director Russel Norman
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