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Immigration reform activists diversifying ranks
Hyattsville :: MD :: USA | 4 days ago
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Beyond the noisy town hall meetings, Tea Party protests and sky-is-falling speeches characterizing much of the health care debate is a less visible, but no less intense push to broaden the face of the immigration reform movement. Latino-led movement,...
Tags: immigration reform, Latinos, Pacific Islanders, Congress, D-N.Y. Washington NAACP, reform movement, Hyattsville, Sociology, Illegal immigration, Social Issues, Immigration law, Crimes, Nativism, Nationalism, Human migration
Pacific workers scheme failing growers
Sydney :: Australia | 4 days ago
Credibility The scheme, first started in 2008, was intended to help Australian growers fill labour gaps by inviting Pacific Islanders to take up seasonal work. After months of negotiations, Australia finalised agreements with Kiribati, Vanuatu and Tonga in December...
Tags: Pacific Islanders, Radio Australia, Australian Department of Education, Horticulture Australia Council, workers scheme, pacific workers, Australia, Sydney, Pacific Islander, Visas, Labour hire, Labor, Working holiday visa, Immigration to Australia
DEVFISH: Economic Benefits For Pacific Islands
Nuku'alofa :: Tonga | 7 days ago
Credibility Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA) and Secretariat for Pacific Community (SPC), supports fisheries development to increase income, jobs and food security from fishing for Pacific Islanders. While in the past, Pacific Islands have relied on foreign...
Tags: Offshore Fisheries Development Project, fishing industry, DEVFISH, Pacific Islands, Pacific Islanders, Tonga, Nuku'alofa, Polynesia, Fisheries, Tuvalu, Secretariat of the Pacific Community, Business Finance, International organizations, Constitutional monarchies, Island countries
Islander work scheme bears no fruit
Swan Hill :: Australia | 9 days ago
Credibility Lake Boga fruit grower Michael Tripodi blames red tape and costs for the failure of a plan to attract seasonal workers from struggling island nations. Pacific Islanders to work on Australian fruit farms has stalled, as red tape entangles a scheme initially...
Tags: Pacific Islanders, Ms Newton, pacific workers, Australia, Swan Hill, Tonga, Pacific Islander, Vanuatu, Labour hire, Island countries, Polynesia, Renewable-energy economy, Social Issues, Labor
Obama marks Diwali, reaches out to Asian Americans
Washington :: DC :: USA | about 1 month ago
Credibility US President Barack Obama on Wednesday lit a lamp to celebrate the Hindu holiday Diwali as he reached out to Asian Americans with a new initiative aimed at expanding opportunities. Obama became the first US president to personally take part in a White...
Tags: Barack Obama, Pacific Islanders, Diwali, president barack, White House Advisory Commission, White House Commission, asian americans
Tsunami warning cancelled
Luganville :: Vanuatu | about 1 month ago
Credibility Listen Red Cross worker Rosemarie North 01/10/2009 17:19:00 Newstalk ZB host Larry Williams speaks with Red Cross aid worker Rosemarie North, who is in Samoa assessing the impact of the tsunami. Listen NZ cyclist Sam Bewley has signed a two year deal...
Tags: Pacific Tsunami Warning Center, New Zealand, South Pacific, Pacific Island, Vanuatu, pacific islanders, tsunami alert, struck near, near vanuatu, Fijilive
Fresh quake renews tsunami fears for Pacific
Luganville :: Vanuatu | about 1 month ago
Credibility Fresh quake renews tsunami fears for Pacific A huge subsea quake struck the southwest Pacific on Thursday, local time, prompting a tsunami warning for island nations only a week after a deadly wave swept over the Samoa islands, killing around 150 people....
Tags: tsunamis warning, South Pacific, Vanuatu, Pacific Island, islanders nation, tsunamis panic, higher grounds, pacific islanders
Greenpeace ramp up protests
Mackay :: Australia | 3 months ago
Credibility Queensland by sending its largest vessel to block one of the world's biggest coal export ports. With leaders at the 40th annual Pacific Island Forum on their last day in Cairns, Greenpeace sent the Esperanza to block BHP Billiton Mitsubishi's Hay Point...
Tags: Greenpeace, coal terminal, hay point, Mackay, pacific islanders, Queensland, climate change, coal loader, greenpeace activists
Sustainability report a useful step for accuracy
Auckland :: New Zealand | 4 months ago
Credibility Business NZ Chief Executive Phil O’Reilly said the report would be useful in helping to inform debate over many issues including environmental ones like energy efficiency and greenhouse gas emissions. “For example, the report shows the biggest increase...
Tags: Maori, Pacific Islanders, NZPA
Pacific needs help to combat climate change
Wellington :: New Zealand | 4 months ago
Credibility Developed countries need to act urgently to help vulnerable Pacific island nations cope with climate change, international aid group Oxfam said Monday...Coral atolls are particularly vulnerable, including countries such as Tuvalu, Kiribati and the Marshall...
Tags: Pacific Islands, climate change, Pacific Islanders, Oxfam, NZPA
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