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So I have been sitting quiet on this for like 2 weeks but starting Monday, I will be in a paid internship with the British High Commission, Suva as their Climate Diplomacy Fund Intern and I am super excited.
I suppose I can now say I am no longer unemployed.
I have seen FB, Twitter & Insta littered with post of Fijians asking why Fijians are so passionate about protests in the US about the BLM yet we ignore police brutality in Fiji. Somehow insinuating that we're complacent in our protests and only choose battles on SM & not at home.
I feel I can and should flex this. It's a black and white scanned copy of 9 years of nightmare and happiness and sorrows and decisions and what not to have come to this moment of getting a PDF copy of my Degree in my email.
I'm satisfied.
Onwards with the unemployment.
When I was doing medicine, my tutor asked if I wanted to be a C grade doctor. I asked her if she is wheeled in dying in ED and I was the doctor, would she ask my grade or ask me to help her. I am unashamed of my response to her question. Suck on that.
Exam based vs skills based!
Going to sleep now. In a few hours, it will be daytime in the Pacific. And with the dawn of the new day will hopefully come news of how Tonga has fared with the Hunga Tonga Hunga Ha'apai volcanic eruption and relief for thousands of families abroad waiting for news on loved ones.
Been sitting on this news for sometime now but happy to say I have been accepted into the Asia Pacific Masters of Arts in International Human Rights and Democracy (International Programme) at Mahidol University with a EU APMA scholarship. Excited for this new chapter.
Who authorized 15 men to enter the residence of the USP VC, a regional institution whose grounds can only be entered by Fijian defence and security forces by permission or invitation? 15 men to escort an elderly couple.
I'm interested in knowing what threat they posed to Fiji.
Bainimarama has addressed the nation more times in the past 10 days, through press conferences or directly to journalists than in his 16 years it seems.
Let's do a networking thread. If you are a graduate, mention your field of study and what you are currently doing now.
I'll start.
Bachelor in Public Health 2019 (graduated) from the Fiji National University. Currently looking for the bread on my table aka unemployed.
Batai Ilaisa's mother received his postgraduate certificate on his behalf.
Batai is a victim of police brutality and passed away from alleged complications from injuries he sustained from police officers.
Forgot to say that I got accepted to do my Postgrad in Social Development and Policy at USP. Atleast the last part of 2020 may have some meaning for me. Now to ensure that I asked for the correct location and mode.
I'm counting down the hours to Monday 8.30 am.
You have no idea how impatient I'm to be employed.
My first day clothes are washed and ready. My shoe too. I can't sleep already.
Dear 2210 followers,
This account will go haywire for 3 months. Expect scriptures and smile and wave from now onwards.
We will not fight. We will not thirst and we will most certainly not woke.
Sincerely
Abdul from The Hood
Within a month and a half, Fiji has faced a CAT 5 cyclone and on the road to recovery, a CAT 2 cyclone with atleast 2 possible cyclone systems forming 24 hours away from the current series of havoc and destruction.
If you are skeptical of climate change, pay attention.
The photo of Lynda with a crying face after visiting the Rwandan Genocide museum is super cringe. Please. I visited it too. It was super emotional and a lot of us cried. But to post a photo on your socials of your crying face AFTER. There has to be a limit to the PR man.
Don't mistake my support for the NFP-PAP-SODLEPA coalition as support for Rabuka. I don't support him or Bainimarama. But Fiji chose Rabuka as the change, and I'll accept that change cos I want it too. I'm not going to stop calling out the Coalition for the next 4 years. OK?
Weilei. Leave Kara and Aporosa and Paulini alone.
Go call up your parents, grandparents and sibling and ask them how they are. They need you more while they are here.
Did the PM just say the University of Fiji VC Sushila Chang violated the curfew in Lautoka and caught a flight to Sydney?
YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO BE AN ACADEMIC HELPING EDUCATE PEOPLE ON THINGS LIKE THIS.
#COVID19
The next few days and weeks, we will hear of real stories of people under the FFP government. Give them the time to be heard. The last 16 years has been harrowing to a lot of people.
The Fijian government's interference in affairs of USP, a regional organization co-owned by 12 Pacific Countries is an indication of what it thinks itself to be as in the region.
Fix your roads. Leave the academic to decide on the Univeristy and it's way forward.
This is Fiji. Someone tagged me a while ago on this photo.
With all the problems of the world, this photo taken in a bus is what comes to mind when someone says "Tell me about Fiji where you come from."
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#Fiji
#TeamFiji
#Viti
#Fijipol
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There is a video circulating on social media of police brutally attacking a man on the streets in front of Kadavu House, home of UN in the Pacific.
We live under a brutal regime who feel they can do whatever they want with whoever. This is the Fiji First Government since 2006.
Biman's speech acknowledging the Bainimarama government and their differences and talking about the spirit of working together despite politics and personalities is the way forward.
We live under a democratic dictatorship where draconian decrees have been passed into laws and continue to limit our freedom of assembly, right to protest and rally. We have institutions that are either headed by military personals or family members of the ruling party.
When we talk about "is Fiji a racist society" we focus too much on how Indo-Fijians have faced racism in the country and don't spend enough time on how racist Indo-Fijians are.
And how both the communities and their experiences have pushed generations towards these sentiments.
Ironically, these are Fijians who don't live in Fiji, who migrated on their own, or for the fear of persecution by the regime. They migrated to countries where despite all the discrimination and injustices, the countries still have the rights to assembly, to protest and rally.
A convicted murderer heads our Corrections Department. Recently, he has been alleged for homophobia in the workplace. The Police Commissioner runs a department that has been constantly plagued with police brutality. While his stance in public is against that, there's no change.
I wanted to share this. For Eid this year, we went with this kalavata. My mom got the jaba done but she needs the top to be longer cos she wears the hijab so prolly can't see it. She pairs it with pants also cos it's long.
They are so used to people marching on the streets because of the freedoms they enjoy, that they don't realize the realities of Fijians living in Fiji under this Fiji First Government.
"People risk their lives everyday" they say. "Get off SM and do something" they say.
I don't care what people think, Lynda is the most politically resilient person ever. 3 elections, 3 parties. She claimed the ladder knowing how to be strategic and is the only woman in the top 11 voted candidates this election. She knows politics and all its good and bad.
Despite differences with the Social Democratic Liberal Party in the past, People’s Alliance Deputy Leader Lynda Tabuya believes the two parties are family and remains hopeful of working together.
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What if for Christmas this year,
#TeamFiji
Twitter donates/ gifts to the orphanages and the elderly. Like I'm willing to team up with anyone who wants to make this happen. Yes? No?
I'm really keen and there is enough time for us to work something out.
I'm disappointed people from Suva are not saying much on this whole Suva-Nadi beef. It's mostly people from the West.
Then I realize its 2020 and most people in Suva are still employed.
So USP decided to put me out of my misery and released my results. It's an A+ and its still onwards on unemployment avenue while we pursue this damned paper this semester. Lordt.
You consider yourself Fijian despite not being here and you know your identities geographically, ethnically etc but YOU DON'T LIVE THE REALITIES OF FIJI. You don't get to demand people to take to the streets when we have found alternative means.
A month or so ago, some Fiji Twitter folks emailed an organization I was contracted to regarding my tweets about Israel. I was informed and told that I have freedom of speech and what I say on my socials is not their problem. But that is the level of genocide apologists. Shame.
All countries in the world have their own problems and some of these still allow them to make a stand and protest. We don't. We don't have that luxury and we yearn for it so respect that there are people who talk about all these, despite it all, on SM atleast.
Somebody tweeted "Pacific regionalism died back when we didn't stand up for our West Papuan brothers and sisters when we should have" and I couldn't speak on the issue any more without feeling guilty and empty.
I'm sorry.
#FreeWestPapua
#PapuaMerdeka
Yes we eat people for breakfast, lose our Declaration of Independence at lunch and have Britian deliver us a photocopy of it by dinner.
For late night snacks, we carry out coups.
In 2005, the Republic of Fiji lost the original copy of their 'Declaration of Independence' from the United Kingdom.
After five years of searching, they finally contacted the British government, who gave them a photocopy of it.
The Human Rights and Anti-Discrimination Commission (HRADC) the statutory body responsible for looking after and ensuring people's rights are not violated by state actors, spends more time defending the violations by the state than actually defending human rights in Fiji.
So I have 2 different job interviews tomorrow. One online at 4am and another face to face at 11.30am. It has been a few months since I have gone to the interview phase and at this point I don't care if I don't get the job. I made it to round 2. (P.S. I hope I get the 4am job)
I write this thread because I love talking.
But also because I am tired of the self-righteous prick like attitude that some of you have lording it over Fijians in Fiji of how much you or others do in their country compared to us here. We do a lot thanks.
Don't put your family's respect in your sibling's genitals. Especially without their permission. Children are a gift from God however we define the circumstances and the decision to have the gift is the individuals in the first place. Respect and support it.
When we send our kids to school knowing that they are learning a whitewashed curriculum where your own history has ben censured and 2006 is not even mentioned and it is now on you to present the facts.
When you have been branded because of your ethnicity and race.
This is prolly my iconic photo. Reasons to weep. This is the generation who will inherit the legacy that we create and the damage that we are causing now.
Already they are facing the brunt of it and they don't even know it.
Since morning, there are rumors of a
#COVID19
case in Fiji. It is 1.40pm and the Prime Minister has yet to make a statement. The country is going into panic and the Minister of Health confirms at 1.00pm via his Twitter account of the case.
Where is the leadership?
Waking up everyday and breathing is a form of protests in itself when you live at and around $2.68/ hour and the only breadwinner of an extended family.
When the very industry your ancestors have worked in for years have been destroyed but you still persevere because.
Here is a thread because I came across Satish Narain's opinion piece on Nasilasila just now.
The article was an absolute hack job glorifying Nasilasila (despite saying it's not glorifying him).
The HRADC day in and day out, through its Director, comes out with multiple theories and tests and reasonings on why people need to be content with a bigger passage of the limitations of the Bill of Rights in the Fijian Constitution.
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Only Fiji Twitter can tweet without tagging anyone or taking anyone's name and then start a fight without tagging anyone in the fight tweets.
Only Team Fiji.
That's the toxic trait.
Our major political party is suspended because they can't get their own affairs in order. The 3rd political party is small and as an Opposition, they are not given much value it seems by the main Opposition Party. The Opposition participation in parliament is rendered useless...
We have a minimum wage that requires a person to work for 3 hours to buy a packet of milk, 4 hours to buy a set of 5 shaving gear and 5 hours to buy gas. Lives of people are on paycheck to paycheck and we can't afford to lose jobs or take time off in a democracy where the...
The Government as a whole acts like a dictatorship where dissent gets you alienated publicly but toeing the party line/ narrative gets you in good books.
Every institution meant to protect and promote the civil rights and liberty of Fijians seem to be working against the people.
Until now, BDO report of USP has shown that people with ties close to the current Fijian government have been benefitting from improper management of finances and governance at the institution. VCP Pal was working to expose the corrupt practices at the HEI to Council.