Pacific Outreach Officer at the Edmund Rice Centre Maria Tiimon Chi-Fang, from the tiny Pacific island state Kiribati, warned at the Palm Sunday rally that her community is the "collateral damage to the greed of distant colonising powers".
The Justice and Peace Office and Independent and Peaceful Australia Network (IPAN) are delighted to welcome two visitors from the Pacific: Monaeka Flores from Guahan (aka Guam) and Shinako Oyakawa from Okinawa who are in Sydney for one day only.