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A lesson in Eco-Anarchism from Bougainville

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Uploaded by on Sep 12, 2007

From the documentary "Coconut Revolution"
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0479000/

BRA - Bougainville Revolutionary Army
PNGDF - Paupa New Guinea Defence Force

from wikipedia.org:
Bougainville Island is part of Papua New Guinea. Geographically, Bougainville is included in the chain of islands known as the Solomon Islands in Melanesia. Bougainville, the adjacent island of Buka, and assorted outlying islands including the Carterets are sometimes known as the North Solomons. Bougainville is included in the Solomon Islands rain forests ecoregion. The nation of Solomon Islands is a separate state.
Together they make up the Papua New Guinean (PNG) Bougainville Province. The population of the province is 175,160 (2000 census).
In the 1970s, Bougainville Copper Limited (BCL, a subsidiary of Rio Tinto) began exploiting the island's huge copper reserves. Resentment over the negative effects of the company's activities on the area and the lack of any tangible benefit to the islanders erupted into conflict in the 1990s. Attempts at proclaiming the independence of Bougainville (Republic of North Solomons) have occurred twice: in 1975 and 1990. In the second case the government of Papua New Guinea moved to put down what became a secessionist movement led by Francis Ona, a former surveyor for BCL. The PNG army received military aid from Australia and enlisted the support of Sandline International, a mercenary firm. The island was embargoed to weaken its people's resistance. However, they proved much more resilient than expected, designing their own weapons and converting engines to vegetable oil. Peace talks brokered by New Zealand began in 1997, leading to autonomy for the island.

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  • If you go to Bougainville now, you`d see cars labeled "powered by coconut"..Not long ther will be cars powered by water or from sugarcane or something else in A.R.O.B..Just don`t be surprised...

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  • i like the music 1:30 ;-)

  • i respect you bur why you are stupid?(A)

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  • dont allow rio tinto back they will, it will be back to old ways selling infinate resources for peanuts.

  • hope people of bougenville get their freedom!!!

  • A leader is not fit to be a leader unless he bows down

    to clean the boots of his people.

    thatswhat david cameron should be doing to me

  • @AUSM92 - yes scumfuck fucktard, I know what I typed at my own profile.

    And yes you stupid pile of shite, it is true. Don't fucking be an ignorant shithead and ignore facts and fucking attack me for knowing them and making them as known of as I possibly can.

    Here's some more facts:

    people like you type the kind of insidious evil you did to me here, because the energy your contact carries in it, is designed to harm matter also - in this case disrupt my thoughtwaves and my aura.

    Kill yourself.

  • @AUSM92 - fuck off you lying piece of shit4brains cunt, your kind are the problem. Not the ones sanely rejecting your sicko offers to bury them in your captalist disease.

  • @AUSM92 Same old, same old story. The West sucking the blood out of non-whites and have the gut to tell how they should live their lives. Don't be surprise if one day your kind is on verge of extinction. besides, i also have to remind that you are squatting the land of Australia and you should move your ass back to blood soaked Europe. All the bad things going in the region, East Timor and Bougainville has Anglo-Saxon stink on it.

  • @kiviaavikko its the birth of a new state, not anarchism is it? same old cycle though isnt it? you can just see, if they succeed, their state will become just as corrupt and evil as every other state throughout history. perhaps one day they will be hiring mercenaries to deal with rebellion and discontent within its own society lol

  • i like the anticdote at the end about the principal but i dont think his definition of leader is the same as other peoples.

    his concept of "leader" (jusdging by what he said) = guide, caretaker, wise man, decision maker

    the rest of the worlds concept of "leader" owner, slavemaster, animal herder, controller, dictator, privaledged, narcissistic meglomaniac, master, director, authority

  • where we can find that kind of music? any one??

    i love the music.

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