Posts Categorized: Pacific

Military to hikers: Take up indoor hobbies

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Military to Guam residents: We will take your ancestral land and resources. So you won’t be able to fish, hunt, conduct traditional cultural practices, but you can go bowling or roller skating instead.  Wow, score! >><< http://mvguam.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=10053:military-to-hikers-take-up-indoor-hobbies&catid=1:guam-local-news&Itemid=2 HIKING, FISHING FORFEIT IN GUAM MILITARY LAND GRAB Marine Corps suggests residents turn to indoor activities By Jude… Read more »

‘The Marines are coming’

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http://www.pbs.org/now/shows/550/index.html This NOW program was shown on PBS last week about the U.S. military expansion on Guam.   Go to the NOW website for links and other resources. Guam is an American colony, with no say in the military invasion that will suffocate the Chamoru people.

PBS to air program on military expansion on Guam

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Why Are We Sending Thousands of Military Personnel to Guam? Tuesday 08 December 2009 by: NOW | t r u t h o u t | Programming Note Why are we sending thousands of military personnel to Guam? Next on “NOW.” Over the next five years, as many as 30,000 service members and their families… Read more »

Chamoru and allies protest the military expansion

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http://thedrowningmermaid.blogspot.com/2009/11/honk-if-you-hear-me.html On Friday, November 20, the day the Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the Guam Military Expansion was released, there was a demonstration against the U.S. military expansion in Guam.     The Drowning Mermaid blog carried a report and  photos from the action.  Here’s a few excerpts: I don’t think it’s uncommon to stay silent on… Read more »

Heritage Foundation report rehashes Manifest Destiny

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The Heritage Foundation, the notorious Right Wing think tank published its 2009 book of charts on the Asia-Pacific region.  It is all rehashed Mahan, “American Lake”, “Manifest Destiny”: The United States is no less a Pacific nation than an Atlantic one. The state of Hawaii and the territories of Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, and American… Read more »

Draft Environmental Impact Statement available for military expansion on Guam / N. Marianas

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NOTICE OF AVAILABILITY OF DRAFT EIS/OEIS AND NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARINGS The Department of the Navy (DoN) and the Joint Guam Program Office (JGPO) announces the availability of the Guam and Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) military relocation Draft Environmental Impact Statement/Overseas Environmental Impact Statement (EIS/OEIS). The Draft EIS/OEIS analyzes the potential environmental… Read more »

Military bases factored into APEC choice

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An interview with Charles E. Morrison, President of the East-West Center, which successfully bid for Hawai’i to host the 2011 APEC Summit, confirmed that the military presence was a significant factor in the decision to select Hawai’i.   We can expect to see intensified militarization of Honolulu in preparation for the summit.  When the Asian Development… Read more »

APEC Summit to be held in Hawai’i in 2011

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The East West Center issued a press release announcing that the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit will be held in Hawai’i in November 2011.  If past experience with the Asian Development Bank meeting in Honolulu is an indicator, we should expect that Honolulu will be intensely militarized to prevent protest and disruptions.  Earlier this… Read more »

I Karera I Palabran Mami (The Journey of Our Words): Chamoru poetry reading in Honolulu

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I Karera I Palabran Mami (The Journey of Our Words) POETS: Angela T. Hoppe-Cruz (MSW/MA Pacific Isl. Studies Candidate) Kisha Borja-Ki`cho`cho (MA Pacific Island Studies Candidate). Both women are Chamoru and were born and raised on the island of Guam. WHERE: Halau o Haumea, Kamakakuokalani Center for Hawaiian Studies, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2645… Read more »

Honolulu Advertiser: Pentagon urged to keep Guam better informed on Marine transfer

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http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/20091113/BREAKING01/91113045/Pentagon+urged+to+keep+Guam+better+informed+on+Marine+transfer Friday, November 13, 2009 Pentagon urged to keep Guam better informed on Marine transfer By JOHN YAUKEY Gannett Washington Bureau WASHINGTON — Guam’s government needs more timely information from the Defense Department about the planned transfer of 8,000 Marines and their dependents there from Japan so it can better plan for the necessary infrastructure… Read more »