http://mvguam.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=10899:demand-dont-ask&catid=1:guam-local-news&Itemid=2 Demand, don’t ask Thursday, 11 February 2010 04:23 by Mar-Vic Cagurangan | Variety News Staff Japanese parliamentarian advises Guam to be more assertive BOTH the U.S. and Japanese governments have equal responsibilities to respond to every issue raised by Guam pertaining to the Marines’ relocation, but the people of the island must learn to… Read more »
Posts Tagged: Movements and Resistance
‘Guam can’t be new Okinawa’
http://mvguam.com/index.php?view=article&catid=1%3Aguam-local-news&id=10920%3Aguam-cant-be-new-okinawa&tmpl=component&print=1&page=&option=com_content&Itemid=2 ‘Guam can’t be new Okinawa’ Friday, 12 February 2010 03:51 by Therese Hart | Variety News Staff GOVERNOR Felix Camacho met with a Japanese delegation yesterday that flew to Guam on a fact finding mission which included a tour of the military bases. Camacho, who was joined by CNMI Gov. Benigno Fitial, shared with… Read more »
Guam legislature tells Japanese delegation “No More Troops”
No more troops Friday, 12 February 2010 03:52 by Therese Hart | Variety News Staff Speaker Judi Guthertz discusses Guam’s sentiments with Japanese House Rep. Mikio Shimoji, while vice speaker BJ Cruz and Sen. Tina Muna Barnes listen during the Japanese delegation’s visit to the legislature on Thursday. Matt Weis Japanese officials given copy of… Read more »
Democracy Thwarts U.S. Base Plans
http://www.fpif.org/articles/democracy_thwarts_us_base_plans Democracy Thwarts U.S. Base Plans By Christine Ahn and Gwyn Kirk, February 10, 2010 This March, the Obamas will touch down in the U.S. territory of Guam, en route to Australia and Indonesia. It’s a big deal for this tiny Pacific island seven-and-a-half hours by plane from Hawaii and, according to airport placards, “where… Read more »
Haiti relief efforts becomes a commercial for the return of the Hawaii Superferry
The Honolulu Advertiser ran a story that featured the efforts of a Hawai’i engineer to help the relief and recovery in Haiti. The article includes the following commercial for the return of the Hawai’i Superferry: He said one odd sight was the former Hawai’i Superferry Alakai in port to provide relief duty in Haiti. The… Read more »
Hawai’i faces a Strykerferry threat
When critics of the Hawaii Superferry uncovered its ties to military programs and warned that the Superferry was a front for establishing a U.S.-based shipyard that could compete for the military JHSV and Littoral Combat Ship contracts, these ideas were derided as “paranoid conspiracy theories”. But less than a year since the demise of the… Read more »
It’s back! Superferry rises from the dead
Like a zombie flick where the dead won’t stay dead, the State House of Representatives considering a bill to resurrect the Hawaii Superferry by creating a state ferry system and a special fund to have the public fund the venture. Citizens concerned about environmental and social impacts and the military use of the Hawaii Superferry… Read more »
I Kareran I Palåbran Måmi (The Journey of Our Words)
WHAT: I Kareran I Palåbran Måmi (The Journey of Our Words) WHO: Poets, Angela T. Hoppe-Cruz (MSW/MA Pacific Islands Studies Candidate) & Kisha Borja-Kicho`cho` (MA Pacific Island Studies Candidate). Both women are Chamoru and were born and raised on the island of Guåhan (Guam). WHERE: University of Hawai`i at Mānoa, Campus Center, Executive Dining Room… Read more »
Exorcising war’s demons, in poetry and prose
http://www.starbulletin.com/news/nyt/20100208_exorcising_wars_demons_in_poetry_and_prose.html Exorcising war’s demons, in poetry and prose By Elisabeth Bumiller / New York Times POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Feb 08, 2010 WASHINGTON — Brian Turner was focused on staying alive, not poetry, when he served as an infantry team leader in Iraq. But he quickly saw that his experience — “a year of complete… Read more »
Economic benefit of military expansion in Guam is overstated
This University of Guam Economics Professor, herself a supporter of the military buildup in Guam, says that the claims of the economic benefit of the build up are exaggerated. Apparently the Draft Environmental Impact Statement used the formula from Hawai’i to calculate the multiplier effect of the military spending. But according to the professor, the… Read more »
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