Papeete, Tahiti, French Polynesia - Memorial Site for Nuclear Testings HD (2017)
Papeete is the capital of French Polynesia, an overseas country of France in the Pacific Ocean. The commune (municipality) of Papeete is located on the island of Tahiti, in the administrative subdivision of the Windward Islands, of which Papeete is the administrative capital. The French High Commissioner also resides in Papeete. It is the primary center of Tahitian and French Polynesian public and private governmental, commercial, industrial and financial services, the hub of French Polynesian tourism and a commonly used port of call. The Windward Islands are themselves part of the Society Islands. The name Papeete means water from a basket.
The urban area of Papeete had a total population of 133,627 inhabitants at the August 2012 census, 25,769 of whom lived in the commune of Papeete proper.
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Tahiti - Anti-Nuclear Test Demonstration
T/I: 10:20:29
About 1,000 demonstrators marched near Papeete, Tahiti on Thursday
(5/10) to protest France's nuclear tests in the South Pacific.
They carried banners and torches and marched through the streets
of Faa'a, a poor district that is also a stronghold of the
Tahitian pro-independence movement. The march began with a vigil
at a monument that commemorates Polynesians who died in combat
with the French in the 19th century. Protesters sang hymns and
marched to the grounds of the town hall where they listened to a
speech by Oscar Temaru, the leader of Tahiti's pro-independence
party.
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PAPEETE, TAHITI, 5/10
pan down of tahitian flag to group of protestors
woman with head bowed
c/u man with gag around mouth
three men walking in street, gagged and chained together
more people walking in demonstration
tracking shot of national territorial president's office
men in chains arrive outside office gate
women, some gagged as well, look on
rest of procession arrives
protestors walk away
FAA'A, NEAR PAPEETE, 5/10
night shots of crowd of people holding torches and singing
pan of crowd from behind
people walking in parade and singing amazing grace
independence leader oscar temaru on podium sot to crowd
people watching in line
temaru sot to camera saying that the French troops would not come
to the rally because they know that they would start a
provocation. He continues to say that he does not need to thank
the French for their restraint, and that he will only thank the
French when they leave the country free.
more demonstrators chanting
2.29
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Tahiti - Protest Against French Nuclear Tests
Thousands of demonstrators marched through the streets of the Tahitian capital of Papeete on Saturday (26/7) to protest French plans to resume nuclear tests in the South Pacific. Cook Island warriors on their way to the test-site, left Tahiti for the final leg of their journey in a traditional canoe. Canoe captain Tua Pittman said the warriors will stage a protest outside the 12 mile French exclusion zone. As they left, the French minister for overseas territories, Jean-Jacques Peretti, arrived in Tahiti (on Saturday 26/8). As the minister arrived at Papeete airport, police arrested a man for disorderly conduct, but it was not known whether he was a protester. Peretti's first official function in Papeete was a ceremony honouring a Tahitian killed in Bosnia.
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PAPEETE, TAHITI 26/8
0.00 ws people marching and holding hands
0.05 side shot of people marching
0.09 people carrying banner in front of march
0.16 cu people marching including oscar temaru-opposition leader
0.23 natsot man shouting to canoe crew
0.27 natsot- haka on canoe
0.30 cu women watching
0.32 cu haka
0.34 natsot canoe captain tua pittman we will go to the 12 mile
limit. We will say our prayer, we will sing our song and we will
do our haka, then we will leave.. this is a peaceful mission for
us.
0.43 cu boat and crew zoom out to ws boat sailing away
0.52 pan of police at airport
0.59 arrest
1.02 Jean-Jacques Peretti, minister, natsot in French-
i think that the way things have gone so far, greenpeace has
fought a good media fight, but it has nothing to do with the
reality of the situation.
1.21 ws minister walking past parade
1.24 minister laying wreath
1.31 VISION ENDS
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TAHITI: ANTI-FRENCH NUCLEAR TEST DEMONSTRATIONS CONTINUE
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Politicians and environmentalists from five continents have united in a show of defiance against the French nuclear testing programme in the South Pacific.
They came together in Tahiti in a protest march and to petition France's High Commissioner for Polynesia in an effort to have the tests called off.
It had been billed as a truly international protest.
15 thousand people had been expected at the event.
But in the end only around 3 thousand turned out.
Tahiti's independence leader Oscar Temaru had been arrested by the French military during the storming of the Greenpeace-led peace flotilla off Mururoa Atoll.
But he was released in time to take his place on the march - much to the joy of his supporters.
His teenage daughter was among the first to greet him along the route.
Temaru had this message for France's President Chirac.
SOUNDBITE:
It's an appeal from the entire world, the entire world is here today to tell him (President Chirac) to stop that madness, stop the resumption of nuclear testing at the atoll of Mururoa. It's an appeal from a very small nation from very small people.
SUPER CAPTION:Oscar Temaru - Tahitian independence leader
For this family man it was a highly-charged, emotional moment.
He was supported by representatives of other south Pacific nations.
SOUNDBITE:
We are representing many millions of people from Australia and New Zealand an international contingent here today in solidarity with the local people to say no Mr Chirac
SUPER CAPTION:Ian Cohen - Australian parliamentarian
SOUNDBITE:
Mr Chirac should really listen to world opinion and call off the tests.
SUPER CAPTION:Franca Arena - Australian parliamentarian
In the shadow of a statue to the founder of Tahiti's independence movement the crowd heard speaker after speaker denounce the French.
SOUNDBITE:
We are highly pissed off with testing bombs in our area. We don't want them to test in the Pacific.
SUPER CAPTION:John Carter - New Zealand parliamentarian
That's a message reinforced by eight thousand signatories to a petition collected in Australia this week and delivered to France's High Commissioner in Polynesia.
Oscar Temaru was persuaded to join the delegation - the first direct contact he has had with the French political authorities for weeks.
Demonstrators waited for over an hour for the deputation to emerge.
When it did Oscar Temaru dismissed the meeting as a waste of time.
His supporters then decided it was time to go home.
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Tahiti - Demo Against French Nuclear Tests
T/I: 10:01:00 tape 2
About 1,000 demonstrators marched near Papeete, Tahiti on Thursday
(5/10) to protest France's nuclear tests in the South Pacific.
They carried banners and torches and marched through the streets
of Faa'a, a poor district that is also a stronghold of the
Tahitian pro-independence movement. The march began with a vigil
at a monument that commemorates Polynesians who died in combat
with the French in the 19th century. Protesters sang hymns and
marched to the grounds of the town hall where they listened to a
speech by Oscar Temaru, the leader of Tahiti's pro-independence
party.
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TAHITI 5/10
PAPEETE
0:00 ms protestors walking in chains
0:05 ms same protestors carrying banners
0:08 cu gagged protestor
0:11 cu gagged protestor
0:15 protestors chaining themselves to railings
NUUTANIA PRISON
0:21 ext prison
0:24 cu prison sign
0:27 ms didier kintzler (defending members of a tia i mua
syndicate of people arrested sept 6) speaking to camera
FAA'A
0:40 natsot song, vigil at monument commemorating polynesians who
died in combat with french in 19thC
0:44 cu man holding torch
0:47 man laying wreath at memorial
0:50 sideshot of crowd
0:53 cu memorial
0:56 pull focus on marching crowd
1:00 cu oscar temaru on podium
1:03 ws of above
1:06 up sot oscar temaru, head of pro-independence party tavini
the day they will leave this country free will be the day i
thank the french
1:13 ms oscar temaru greeting protestors
1:24 ENDS
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CHILE: FRENCH NUCLEAR TESTS DEMONSTRATION
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Thousands of Chilean students have taken to the streets of Santiago to call for an end to nuclear tests.
Their anger was particularly aimed at France's decision to resume testing in the South Pacific.
A vigorous call for France to stop nuclear tests in the Mururoa atoll came from youngsters in Chile.
Thousands of students took to the streets of Santiago, the capital, to demand an end to nuclear tests.
Activists wearing masks and protective gear carried banners urging all nations to oppose nuclear proliferation.
The demonstrations took place along similar events across the world in commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of the bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Hundreds of people gathered Tuesday in the Church of San Francisco to hold a vigil in remembrance of the victims of the atomic bomb.
Chile's Foreign Minister, the Japanese Ambassador to Chile and a spokesperson for Greenpeace were among the participants.
After the ceremony the foreign minister called on citizens to remember those who died.
SOUNDBITE: (In Spanish)
I would say that these past three, four days which commemorate fifty years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, are days of grief for what happened there, for the innocent people who died. We think it was terrible not only for what happened, but also for inaugurating these fifty years of what has been called the Atomic Age.
SUPER CAPTION: Jose Miguel Insulza, Chilean Foreign Minister
Students from various educational institutions marched to the mayor's office to deliver a letter addressed to President Jacques Chirac in which they ask him to change his decision to resume nuclear tests in Tahiti.
At least six-thousand signatures were collected throughout the capital.
France plans eight tests at the Mururoa atoll- 4-thousand-900-miles west of Santiago.
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French Polynesia
French Polynesia (/ˈfrɛntʃ pɒlɨˈniːʒə/; French: Polynésie française, pronounced: [pɔlinezi fʁɑ̃sɛz]; Tahitian: Pōrīnetia Farāni) is an overseas country (pays d'outre-mer) of the French Republic. It is made up of several groups of Polynesian islands, the most famous island being Tahiti in the Society Islands group, which is also the most populous island and the seat of the capital of the territory (Papeetē). Although not an integral part of its territory, Clipperton Island was administered from French Polynesia until 2007.
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NEW ZEALAND: PROTEST AT MAJOR'S REFUSAL TO CONDEMN NUCLEAR TESTS
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The British prime minister's refusal to condemn French nuclear tests in the South Pacific has made him the focus of anti-nuclear protests at the CHOGM meeting in New Zealand.
John Major is ignoring mounting criticism from Commonwealth leaders over his stand and is likely to be isolated on the issue at the four-day summit starting on Friday.
It's not just protesters who are criticising Major - the Malaysian prime minister Thursday joined his Australian counterpart Paul Keating in condemning the British stance.
Once more, protesters take to the streets of Auckland to voice their anger at the French nuclear tests in the South Pacific.
In the absence of their bete noir - French President Jacques Chirac - they are venting their fury on British Prime Minister John Major.
This demonstration is one of many expected over the next few days as protest organisations try to attract the attention of heads of state and government attending the 52-nation Commonwealth summit.
Major is still defiantly defending his fellow nuclear club member, much to the embarrassment of his host who has taken a lead in denouncing Chirac's testing programme.
SOUNDBITE:
France is our next-door neighbour, the French president has had clear advice that he should carry out those tests and as their next-door neighbour, I am not in the business of condemning them.
SUPER CAPTION: John Major, British Prime Minister
SOUNDBITE:
We are not seeking at this late moment to persuade each other to a different viewpoint. That's where it rests. I mean, naturally Prime Minister Major would prefer that I agreed with him and I strongly would prefer that he would agree with me but it doesn't happen that way.
SUPER CAPTION: Jim Bolger, New Zealand Prime Minister
Major has cited the threat posed by Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's nuclear ambitions which showed the need for Britain - and France - to keep up its nuclear guard.
But his stand has earned him the wrath of anti-nuclear protesters.
SOUNDBITE:
Tell Mr John Major our profound disappointment by his decision to support Mr Jacques Chirac's policy. It's an insult.
SUPER CAPTION: Oscar Temaru, Tahitian independence leader
SOUNDBITE:
We are completely and absolutely disgusted with Major being a traitor to the Commonwealth. The Commonwealth are in a consensus, they do not want testing, the proliferation, the improvement, they want in fact the gradual destruction and abolition of all weapons of genocide, particularly of atomic weapons.
SUPER CAPTION: Peter Williams, Protest organiser
But whether or not the British prime minister will bow to their grievances in the course of the CHOGM summit remains to be seen.
What is clear, is it isn't just the environmental activists who are fighting the nuclear tests.
Malaysian Prime Minister, Mahathir Mohamad, also opposes France's nuclear tests.
And in a rare show of solidarity with Australia's Prime Minister Paul Keating, he once more repeated that he too completely disagreed with the testing.
Commenting on a remark made by Keating that he would smack John Major with a ruler, Mahathir said he backed the sentiment.
SOUNDBITE:
This is one instance that I agree fully with Mr Paul Keating. Since he is going to be here and Mr Major is also going to be here and he has promised to use a ruler, I will provide a ruler for him.
SUPER CAPTION: Mahathir Mohamad, Prime Minister of Malaysia
Paul Keating has only just arrived for the summit - but it's unlikely he will pass on the opportunity of telling Major first hand his feelings about Britain's support of France.
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The Ever-Present Nuclear Threat, 70 Years After Hiroshima (part 2)
These shows (VB #96.11&12) capture the 2015 memorialization of the thousands of people killed by bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Speakers and performers include Portland Taiko drumming, host Ronault Polo Catalani, and Michiko Kornhauser-- who was a school child in Japan when the bombs dropped in 1945. Kornhauser tells her personal and family history, and then sings an important Japanese peace song with the Tomodachi Chorus. Also on the programs are Marshall Islands activist Pastor Joe Enlet of the Chuuk Logos Community Church, Sahomi Tachibana's dance group, and anti-nuclear activist Carol Urner, who helped organize Portland's first Hiroshima Day commemoration in 1962. The speakers connected the past to the present and gave people ideas of things to do to make a difference. Closing out the program, Polo read letters from the Mayor of Hiroshima and Senator Jeff Merkley, turning the stage back to the Taiko drummers to wrap it up.
The event took place on August 6 at Portland's Japanese American Historical Plaza, organized by Oregon Physicians for Social Responsibility. The two-part program was taped, edited and produced by Dan Handelman.
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1:15 : Joe Enlet: Nuclear testing in Micronesia
4:56 : Sahomi Tachibana: My history in dance
5:50 : Traditional Japanese dance
7:59 : Polo: Introducing Auntie Carol
9:53 : Carol Urner: 1945 to the 1960s and today
19:50 : Polo: Letters from Hiroshima's mayor and Sen. Merkeley/ How to help
22:37 : Portland Taiko
26:23 :End Credits, part 2
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COLOMBIA: ANTI FRENCH NUCLEAR TESTS DEMONSTRATION
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Anti-nuclear protesters took to the streets of the Colombian capital Bogota.
They demonstrated outside the French embassy, joining the world-wide outcry against France's decision to resume nuclear testing in the South Pacific.
It was the third anti-nuclear demonstration this week. The protesters demanded a boycott of French goods.
Protestors are angry that France is doing the tests far from home.
SOUNDBITE: Spanish
We know exactly why he's doing it. If Mr Chirac wants to do it why doesn't he do so in the Seine. He shouldn't come to the Pacific, to the south where in particular there are ourselves, Colombians, and others who could suffer radioactive fall out because of the Humboldt current.
SUPER CAPTION: Fernando Vasquez, leader of the protest
Latin American countries with Pacific coasts fear the Humboldt Current- which runs along the coast- may carry effects from the nuclear testing towards them.
SOUNDBITE: Spanish
We know what the consequences are of such nuclear activities. There's Nagasaki, Hiroshima and also what has happened in China in regards to nuclear testing. It produces rapid death in some cases and slow death such as the development of cancers, bone marrow problems, respiratory problems. And what they are doing to this planet is reprehensible.
SUPER CAPTION: Fernando Vasquez, protest leader
Last month French President Jacques Chirac announced that France would conduct eight nuclear blasts at Mururoa in the south Pacific later this year before joining a global testing ban.
Chirac's predecessor Francois Mitterrand had halted France's testing programme in 1992, prompting a worldwide moratorium with the exception of China.
Chirac's decision has been met by protests all over Latin America, including Peru, Chile, Panama.
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USA: GREENPEACE DEMONSTRATION OVER RAINBOW WARRIOR SEIZURE (2)
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Greenpeace activists completely enveloped the perimeter of the French Ambassador's residence in Washington, Monday, with a 700 foot long cloth communique, calling on French President Jacques Chirac to Wrap Up Nuclear Testing.
Some activists wrapped the walls and gates with rainbow coloured fabrics emblazoned with nuclear radiation symbols and French flags, others chained themselves to the building.
A day after a French warship rammed the ship Rainbow Warrior II, Greenpeace activists struck back in true Greenpeace style.
Some chained themselves to the railing of the French Ambassador's residence, dressed in nuclear fallout suits.
Around 50 activists completely enveloped the perimeter of the chancery in a 700 foot long cloth communique.
Addressed to French President Jacques Chirac, the message was clear: Wrap Up Nuclear Testing.
SOUNDBITE:
The citizens of France understand our message, they oppose nuclear testing. It is the misguided leaders of France, Jacques Chirac in particular, that have gone down a path of nuclear banditry that is condemned by every nation in the world.
SUPER CAPTION: Mark Floegel, Greenpeace activist
On Sunday a French warship, with 150 French commandos on board,
rammed the ship Rainbow Warrior II, which had sailed into the
French nuclear test zone at Mururoa Atoll to protest the French
decision to resume nuclear testing.
Greenpeace activists called on French citizens to put pressure on their government to halt the planned tests.
Then the inevitable, the arrival of the Washington police. At least 15 activists were led off, chanting as they went.
President Chirac's June 13th decision to resume nuclear tests at
Mururoa Atoll has met with unprecedented international outrage, especially in the South Pacific.
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