Announcing….Gomaluku Live
When the pandemic started I moved out of the city to the countryside to be close to my family. I camped for 11 weeks at my little brother’s place, knew that I couldn’t travel for a while but still wanted to connect with friends and colleagues and provide value.
So I was 3 weeks into the quarantine, bored and figured that this might be a good time to do something with my additional free time.
So, I set up these global conference calls — as most of the calls that I was seeing were regional but figured that we could do more. Had chats with my indigenous peers and indigenous allies about the impacts of COVID-19 and what we could do as a the international Indigenous Peoples movement to also become a support system.
These were very enlightening conversations, which eventually culminated into a webseries I’ll talk about further down.
So when did the Q&A idea came about?
I remember one morning I just grabbed my iPhone, my laptop, and a handful of questions about Indigenous Peoples, mindset and indigenous rights I’ve received over the years in text messages, emails and DMs. I hit record, answered the questions and did that 4 times an episode.
This resulted in 8 episodes of what I called “Quarantine Q&A” and is the metaphorical founding father of Gomaluku Live. In the 11/12th week the quarantine was lifted and I had to go back to the city and back to work.
Why Gomaluku Live?
Parallel to the quarantine Q&A I also started a web show with guests from all over the world, built on the global conference calls. I did this because at first most live shows that I saw emerging were regional, whilst many people were wondering how their indigenous relatives were doing around the world. Thus became Tea Time, for 5 days I had conversations with Indigenous Peoples from all over the world.
I saw this as another tool that I could use to amplify my work advocating for the rights of Indigenous Peoples, and sort of baptized me into the world of web shows.
What followed was the #HowToIndigenousNow webinar series, bringing in indigenous diplomats and rights advocates in a webinar with a speed-dating vibe. I wanted it to be the same as Tea Time — open, transparent, without friction. But it never was going to be, because we had to use a VTC tool to also allow simultaneous interpretation. We were on Zoom, and even though we broadcasted to Facebook…we were in a bubble, a gated community.
Gomaluku Live, what can I expect?
Gomaluku Live is a web show, where I talk — usually with a guest — to answer questions about Indigenous Peoples, indigenous rights, self-awareness, building your reputation on social media, diplomacy, and other topics that come to our table. We basically want to provide as much value as possible.
The format is live Q&A. Not because this is a vanity exercise for myself, I’ve been quietly monitoring over 160 webinar sessions during the pandemic, looking at the dynamics and the nature of the questions that people asked in the chat….that were mostly not answered. I would say there’s an enormous demand for one-to-one answers to questions, but there’s little to no supply.
So, in the web show my guest and myself will directly provide my answers to questions on topics that are of interest to Indigenous Peoples or are relevant to them. Sometimes I want to bring awareness to a person, a process, a topic, it can be on everything.
How you can watch and listen to the show.
I started with podcasting, and will of course continue to do so because I know a lot of you would like to listen to the show during your commute, workout, while you’re ironing, going for a walk. Unfortunately podcast doesn’t allow for interaction, so that’s why we’re going live on LinkedIn, Twitter, Twitch and Facebook so you can watch and provide your questions live and can see our faces.
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► Find Ghazali here:
http://www.facebook.com/gohorella
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Ghazali Ohorella has a vision for Maluku to emerge as an indigenous nation built on the Alifuru heritage, with a governance structure made of traditional elders and leaders, with services like education, healthcare, etc. that respect and embrace the Alifuru way of life.
As a product of the indigenous Alifuru people and an idealist with 18 years of experience advocating for the rights of Indigenous Peoples at the United Nations, Ghazali’s Why is to inspire and empower Indigenous Peoples so that they can do what inspires them.
Ghazali is an anteambulo, and often described by friends as a “machine” working to open up spaces and to provide tools for Indigenous Peoples. In doing so he has worked with many indigenous movements, organisations, governments, NGOs and State representatives around the world.
Ghazali co-chaired a UN General Assembly session during the World Conference on Indigenous Peoples in 2014, and addressed the UN General Assembly in 2017 celebrating the 10th anniversary of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Ghazali is also a trainer in a number of programs on the rights of Indigenous Peoples, and served as the representative for Indigenous Peoples in the negotiations on the UNFCCC’s Local Communities and Indigenous Peoples Platform on traditional knowledge.
Ghazali is a board member of Drumbeat Media, an NGO that produces videos and documentaries for and of Indigenous Peoples around the globe.
Ghazali is the host of GOMALUKU a podcast in which he documents his process and talks with Indigenous Peoples’ representatives on a wide range of topics including their thoughts, failures, the lessons they’ve learned, the hard, their aha moments, and the sacrifices they made to claim their Rights.
Other places you can follow Ghazali online:
Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/1JaYC9XX1ORGSYEa0CQr3r
Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/gomaluku
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/gomaluku
Medium: http://www.medium/com/gomaluku
Tiktok: http://www.tiktok.com/@gomaluku
LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/gohorella
Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/gomaluku
