This article on the struggle to recover Chamoru culture and identity in Guahan came across as patronizing to me. Is it an identity crisis in Guam/Guahan? It’s more like colonial trauma caused by 500 years of occupation and oppression by three different colonizers. Occupation creates schizophrenia in a people. With this perspective, the survival and… Read more »
Posts Categorized: Pacific
Environmental Protection of Bases?
From Foreign Policy In Focus: http://www.fpif.org/articles/environmental_protectionof_bases Environmental Protection of Bases? By David Vine. Edited by John Feffer, April 22, 2010 Just weeks before today’s Earth Day, and for the second time in little more than a year, environmental groups have teamed with governments to create massive new marine protection areas across wide swaths of the… Read more »
Blackwater is operating in Guam and Shariki, Japan
Another blogger shared the following articles about Blackwater and their involvement in Guam and Shariki, a tiny village in Japan that hosts a missile defense radar facility. She points out: • In 2006, Blackwater’s aviation division won a $91 million contract for air charter work in Guam, a contract the Navy had set aside for small… Read more »
Guam: military buildup impact study contains “inaccurate, inadequate information and plagiarized materials”
This is what happens when the military predetermines the outcome, hires mercenary environmental firms to make the results ‘to fit’, then tries to force the decision on the local community. It’s called environmental racism. It’s called imperialism. >><< http://mvguam.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=11944:plagiarism-irks-senators&catid=1:guam-local-news&Itemid=2 Plagiarism irks senators Thursday, 29 April 2010 02:54 by Jennifer Naylor Gesick | Variety News Staff… Read more »
Palau: Senate asks U.S. to consider Angaur as Futenma relocation site
http://www.mvariety.com/2010042826058/local-news/senate-asks-u.s.-to-consider-angaur-as-futenma-relocation-site.php Senate asks U.S. to consider Angaur as Futenma relocation site Wednesday, April 28 2010 15:19 By Bernadette H. Carreon KOROR (Palau Horizon) – The Senate has adopted a resolution asking President Johnson Toribiong to offer the State of Angaur as an alternative location for the United States’ Airbase following plans to relocate the Futenma… Read more »
Guam Lawmakers Cry Foul On Military Report
GUAM LAWMAKERS CRY FOUL ON MILITARY REPORT Plagiarism, inaccurate information mar EIS By Jennifer Naylor Gesick HAGÅTÑA, Guam (Marianas Variety, April 29, 2010) – Guam senators are demanding that the Department of Defense draft a new environmental impact statement, irked that the draft impact study presented to the local community contained a string of inaccurate,… Read more »
Palau’s senate offers land for U.S. Pacific base
In the 1980s, the people of Palau fought very hard to institute a nuclear free constitution. But the U.S. refused to accept the nuclear prohibition and made Palauans revise their constitution. In the end, after a campaign of political terror, a constitution was ratified that did not contain the nuclear free clause. It is… Read more »
Pasifik rising! Famokaiyan and Women for Genuine Security action in San Francisco
On Earth Day, April 22, Famoksaiyan and Women for Genuine Security held a press conference and action at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Earth Day commemoration in protest of the military expansion in Guahan/Guam and the Mariana Islands. The action was also in solidarity with the massive demonstrations in Okinawa protesting U.S. military bases. Check… Read more »
Hypersonic glider test fails over the Pacific
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/04/26/national/a143633D74.DTL US defense agency’s hypersonic glider test fails Monday, April 26, 2010 (04-26) 14:36 PDT LOS ANGELES (AP) — A U.S. defense agency says contact with an experimental hypersonic glider was lost after it launched from California’s Vandenberg Air Force Base last week. The Falcon Hypersonic Technology Vehicle-2 was launched atop a booster rocket on… Read more »
Insular Empire “Red Pill Tour”
Vanessa Warheit, director of the film Insular Empire: America in the Mariana Islands just posted a new entry about her visit to Hawai’i and what she has dubbed the “Red Pill Tour”, a reference to the scene in The Matrix when Neo takes the red pill that awakens him to the violent and oppressive reality… Read more »
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