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The Ocean Is Our Mat

Talei Luscia Mangioni

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Delegates to the Nuclear Free Pacific Conference in Hawai’i 1980 including Hila Lini (Vanuatu/New Hebrides), Roman Bedor (Palau), Nelson Anjain (Marshall Islands) and Marc Pomare (Mā’ohi Nui/French Polynesia). Photo by Ed Greevy.

Half-Life
December 2022










Notes
1

Pacific Network on Globalisation, “Hilda Lini - Drawing the Pacific Blue Line," Facebook, December 2, 2022, .

2

“Wansolwara” is a Tok Pisin term meaning “One Salt Water” or “One Ocean, One People.”

3

Vijay Naidu, “The Fiji Anti-Nuclear Movement: Problems and Prospects,” in The Pacific: Peace, Security & The Nuclear Issue, ed. Rangini Walker and William Sutherland (London: Zed Books, 1988).

4

Nic Maclellan, “The Nuclear Age in the Pacific Islands,” The Contemporary Pacific 17, no. 2 (2005): 363-372.

5

Microform, 1963-2000, Young Womens’ Christian Association of Fiji/Amelia Rokotuivuna Archives, Australian National University, Pacific Manuscripts Bureau; Vanessa Griffen and Claire Slatter, Povai, (March/April 1976).

6

Giff Johnson, “Marshall Islands calls off talks after no US response on nuclear legacy plan,” RNZ, September 24, 2022, .

7

Léna Normand, “This is what nuclear weapons are—a conversation with survivors of nuclear weapons,” (presented at the ICAN Nuclear Ban Forum, Aula der Wissenschaften, Vienna, June 18-19, 2022), ; Hinamoeura Cross and Anaïs Doung-Pedica, “‘The greatness of France, I carry it in my flesh and blood’: Hinamoeura Cross on anti-nuclear and pro-independence activism in Mā’ohi Nui,” The New Outrigger, October 31, 2022, .

8

Vanessa Griffen, “Nuclear-Free Pacific Nearer,” Pacific Islands Monthly 46, no. 9 (September 1975): 28.

9

Griffen and Slatter, Povai.

10

Hilda Lini, “Toktok bilong Edita,” Nasiko (February 1980): 5.

11

Talei Luscia Mangioni, “Art-Story of the Niuklia Fri Pasifik: On Doing Creative Histories,” Journal of Pacific History (forthcoming).

12

Joy Lehuanani Enomoto and D. Kealiʻi MacKenzie, “Saltwater Archives: Native Knowledge in a Time of Rising Tides,” in Routledge Handbook of Postcolonial Politics, ed. Olivia U. Rutazibwa and Robbie Shilliam (London: Routledge, 2018).