The aim of the Moro Movement of Isatabu, in the Solomon Islands, has been described as “Sai lima horohoro tuali” – “Putting lands together in living as before”. A movement for social economic and political improvement using co-operatives economic enterprises in combination with a regard for custom and tradition in order to synthesise a new social order.
As the Marau-Hauba Council on Guadalcanal, became destabilised in 1956, while a ‘back to custom’ movement was gaining strength, centred in the south east coastal areas and on the villages in the Suta area – on the northern side of the interior mountains. At Makaruka and Veuru Moli, Pelise Moro started to mobilise people around stories of original creation and a return to the use of name Isatabu instead of Guadalcanal. However as the movement rose, the Marau-Hauba council was replaced by the Guadalcanal Council.
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“Women, because of their colonial relationship to men, have to fight for their own independence. This fight for our own independence will lead to the growth and development of the revolutionary movement in this country. Only the independent woman can be truly effective in the larger revolutionary struggle.”
—Women’s Liberation Workshop, Students for a Democratic Society, Radical political/social activist organization. “Liberation of Women,” in New Left Notes (July 10, 1967)