Pacific Peoples' Partnership

Have you registered to join the Paddle 4 Pacific journey yet? This long weekend would be the perfect time to stretch your paddling legs and get ready for launch day! Our friends at Ocean River in Victoria are offering P4P participants 25% off kayak and SUP rentals - just mention P4P and show your participant page when you go to rent. We can’t wait to see you on the water! https://bit.ly/3u1BGjj We thank Amy Collingwood for sharing the gorgeous image you see here. | IG: @snackpandaa #Wansolwara #MakeEveryStrokeCount

An interesting discussion happening today: This webinar is the third in the Indigenous Settler Relations Collaboration's 2021 Critical Public Conversations series: Exploring Indigenous-Settler Relations. This talk is drawn from book in-progress, Indigenous Implications: Decolonizing Palestine Solidarity Politics, which explores U.S.-based solidarity activism in relation to the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement targeting Israel and the ethics of challeng...ing one settler colonial state while positioned in another. While many in the movement rightly criticize U.S. imperialism, fewer challenge U.S. settler colonialism. Thus, the work argues for a more ethically consistent approach for activists engaged in solidarity campaigns while based on Indigenous lands claimed by the United States extending the work of anti-normalization at home. Given the limits of both occupation and apartheid as legal and analytical frameworks, one can see that settler colonialism is a more precise model for understanding and reckoning with Israel’s domination of historic Palestine and the Palestinian people, given that land expropriation is the centerpiece of the Zionist political project. The implications of the settler colonial frame, then, necessitates challenging activist discourses of exceptionalism regarding the Israel-Palestine case. The foundations that have forged the nation-states of the U.S. and Israel are not merely analogous, they are shaped from many of the same material and symbolic forces. By triangulating the relations between and amongst U.S. settlers, Palestinians, and Indigenous people(s), the presentation pushes on the frameworks of solidarity, advocating for a politics of decolonization that challenges the (re)production of the structural integrity of both settler colonial states. PRESENTER J. Khaulani Kauanui is Professor of American Studies and affiliate faculty in Anthropology at Wesleyan University, where she teaches courses on indigenous studies, critical race studies, settler colonial studies, and anarchist studies. She is the author of Hawaiian Blood: Colonialism and the Politics of Sovereignty and Indigeneity (Duke University Press 2008) and Paradoxes of Hawaiian Sovereignty: Land, Sex, and the Colonial Politics of State Nationalism (Duke University Press 2018). She is also the editor of Speaking of Indigenous Politics: Conversations with Activists, Scholars, and Tribal Leaders (University of Minnesota Press 2018). Kauanui is one of the six co-founders of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, established in 2008.She serves on the advisory board of the U.S. Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel. REGISTER HERE https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/decolonizing-palestine-soli

Have you registered to join the Paddle 4 Pacific journey yet? This long weekend would be the perfect time to stretch your paddling legs and get ready for launch day! Our friends at Ocean River in Victoria are offering P4P participants 25% off kayak and SUP rentals - just mention P4P and show your participant page when you go to rent. We can’t wait to see you on the water! www.Paddle4Pacific.com We thank Amy Collingwood for sharing the gorgeous image you see here. | IG: @snackpandaa #Wansolwara #MakeEveryStrokeCount

Pacific Peoples’ Partnership would like to thank and acknowledge the contributions of Haida artist Ernest Swanson and Fijian artist Jeke Lagi for their collaborative work on our design mark. Working with the Heywood Beaudry design team, we explored the current flow patterns of the Pacific, and how the North Pacific and South Pacific gyres meet. Focusing on these movements and connections, the idea for the mark was born. Ernest and Jeke came together to create a visual repres...entation of the diverse yet connected peoples, cultures and geographies that make up the Pacific Ocean. Ernest’s Ovoid and salmon egg design at the top of the mark represents the Pacific Northwest, while the Koru or curl at the bottom by Jeke represents the South Pacific. We thank each of you for creating such a beautiful design to represent Paddle 4 Pacific. Jeke Lagi IG: @jeke_lagi Ernest Swanson IG: @shark_house_designs Heywood Beaudry: www.heywoodbeaudry.com See more

Though it's the inaugural year for Paddle 4 Pacific, our ambitions remain high! We believe our campaign goal of raising $25,000 is possible... but only with your support. We rely on paddlers, donors, sponsors, and supporters (like you) to make it happen - so, please register to join us as we paddle for Pacific resilience! Thank you from the bottom of our hearts. www.Paddle4Pacific.com #Paddle4Pacific #Wansolwara #MakeEveryStrokeCount We appreciate Dan Lin’s sharing of this beautiful image from the Marshall Islands | IG: @danlinstuff