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Peace Action

Peace Action: Struggles for a Decolonised and Demilitarised Oceania and East Asia

This book contains stories about activists, their organising and their causes, and the interconnections between social struggles separated by the vast expanse of Te Moana-Nui-A-Kiwa. It includes chapters on the Doctrine of Discovery, on protecting Ihumātao, on anti-militarist organising in South Korea, on campaigning against US military training in Hawai'i and Japan, on French colonialism in Ma'ohi Nui and Kanaky, about Korean peace movements in Aotearoa and Australia, about Indonesia's occupation of West Papua, on feminist resistance to war in so-called Australia, on NZ's history of Chinese-Māori solidarity, and on peace gardening at Parihaka. It is a book to inspire, to educate and to enrage. It is a book to motivate us all to peace action.

Edited by Valerie Morse with contributions by Tina Ngata, Arama Rata, Pania Newton, Qiane Matata-Sipu, Rebekah Jaung, Kyle Kajihiro, Emalani Case, Dr Pounamu Jade Aikman, Tuhi-Ao Bailey, Jungmin Choi, Tony Fala, Zelda Grimshaw, Frances Hancock, Carwyn Jones, Yamin Kogoya, Jenny Bol Jun Lee-Morgan, Marylou Mahe, Ena Manuireva, Mizuki Nakamura, Dr Jae-Eun Noh, Dr Joon-Shik Shin, Mengzhu Fu and Jos Wheeler. Cover artwork by Huriana Kopeke-Te Aho.

Published August 2022. ISBN 9780473634452

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