fPcN interCultural:

friends of Peoples close to Nature

Benny Wenda, leader of the koteka Tribal Assembly and his wife Maria Wenda, Serogo, Brother and Roger Harmar who are the Lani Singers appear on BBC radio Londons Saturday night show a world in London hosted by Dj Ritu. They perform music from the new Lani Singers album and some traditional West Papuan music. Benny also talks about his story and about the struggle in West Papua for independence from Indonesia as well as talking about West Papuan traditions and music culture.

Vice President of the current opposition partly in Vanuatu, Reuben Ishmael, Chief of Masoen Maramanu Tinapuna, from the 'Shepherds Alliance' party, speaks for a free and independent West Papua. And independence for all Melanesians

Abel David M.P from the 'Shepherds Alliance' party in Vanuatu speaks for West Papua & other colonised peoples of Melanesia and the world.

Original footage of the 'first contact' between Papuan highlanders and Australian gold prospectors in the 1930's, together with reflections from surviving participants on their swift introduction to Western colonialism.

Bougainville, with a populations of only 160,000 has managed to close and keep closed one of the biggest mines in the world. They have held their ground for a decade with antique weapons and homemade guns. These people have taken on the biggest mining company in the world and won.