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title: "'350 Islands For Change' in New Zealand"
date: 2009-10-23T13:02:56Z
modified: 2009-10-23T13:04:57Z
permalink: "https://350.org/350-islands-change-new-zealand/"
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status: publish
excerpt: The photos that are rolling in now are simply stunning--we can barely keep up with the torrent of photos from the Pacific, where many people in New
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The photos that are rolling in now are simply stunning–we can barely keep up with the [torrent of photos](https://www.flickr.com/photos/350org) from the Pacific, where many people in New Zealand, Australia, and Pacific Islands decided that their time-zone head-start wasn’t enough, and started doing their actions on Friday!

Among my favourites: what our friend Susi Newborn at [Oxfam](https://www.oxfam.org.nz/newsroom.asp?action=view&type=News&id=2396) helped coordinate in New Zealand yesterday. Sending a message that New Zealand’s Pacific Island neighbors are being "hung out to dry" by climate change, they erected a massive series of washing lines in the sea.

Pacific Islanders waded out to the lines and hung 350 T-shirts, each printed with the name of a different island, on a series of giant washing lines to highlight the insufficient action being taken to combat climate change.

Jane Filemu, a 9-year-old Samoan girl, walked through knee-deep water to hang the final T-shirt–a poignant reminder of just how high the stakes are, and an incredible sign of how intergenerational this movement has become.