{"id":39619,"date":"2021-12-09T12:03:02","date_gmt":"2021-12-09T03:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/09\/anti-independence-ads-accused-of-profound-racism-against-indigenous-new-caledonians-in-court-action"},"modified":"2021-12-09T12:03:02","modified_gmt":"2021-12-09T03:03:02","slug":"anti-independence-ads-accused-of-profound-racism-against-indigenous-new-caledonians-in-court-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=39619","title":{"rendered":"Anti-independence ads accused of \u2018profound racism\u2019 against indigenous New Caledonians in court action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Urgent appeal lodged to stop the broadcast of cartoons calling on New Caledonians to vote against independence from France in this weekend\u2019s referendum<\/p>\n<p>Cartoons urging New Caledonians to vote no to independence from France in this weekend\u2019s referendum have been accused of \u201cprofound racism and ridicule towards Pacific Islanders, especially the [indigenous] Kanak people\u201d, in a legal submission lodged with France\u2019s highest judicial body.<\/p>\n<p>An urgent appeal has been lodged against the broadcast of the animations, which have been running on television in New Caledonia and online, with the Council of State in France.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/09\/anti-independence-ads-accused-of-profound-racism-against-indigenous-new-caledonians-in-court-action\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Urgent appeal lodged to stop the broadcast of cartoons calling on New Caledonians to vote against independence from France in this weekend\u2019s referendumCartoons urging New Caledonians to vote no to independence from France in this weekend\u2019s referendum h&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2689,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,526,1102,874,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-france","category-new-caledonia","category-pacific-islands","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2689"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39619"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39620,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39619\/revisions\/39620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}