Naan ne am Dede

"Your mommy, daddy, bubu, jimma, your country, and your President too -- we will all fight." 

Those are just some of the words still reverberating around the world from poet/activist Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner who opened the UN Climate Summit on behalf of all of the civil sector including the non-profit she and her cousins and friends founded in the Marshall Islands called JoJiKuM. 

Kathy addresses the UN Climate Summit, Sept. 23, 2014 on YouTube

Kathy's poem "Dear Matafele Peinam" to her daughter on YouTube

Statement and poem by Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner at Climate Change Summit 2014

Milañ Loeak, daughter of the Marshall Islands

Earlier this month a group of Pacific island warriors paddled traditional canoes into the world's largest coal port in a blockade. One of the protesters was quietly spoken Milañ Loeak, daughter of the president of the Marshall Islands.