Volume 1 Issue 2 - December 21, 2003 http://www.geocities.com/freeguahan [email protected]
Hafa Adai, yan welcome to the mina'dos na Minagahet.
Thinking
about the US at war with the world, it is the opinion of this writer that the US
should follow the lead of other industrial countries and make their military
primarily for show. I mean if the army never had to fight anyone and just talked
tough and got commissary privileges, then I would definitely be all I could as
an army of one. Joking aside, the world can't afford real militaries anymore.
With the destructive capabilities that have been invented, the next big war will
most definitely be the last one. Forget about Iraq's weapons of mass
destruction, the United States currently has thousands of them, and is building
more. The United States is the only country that has used nuclear weapons on
innocent civilians (Japan and the Marshall Islands). As Chamorros and as second
class Americans, we need to speak out and demand the US stop waging war and
threatening war, because if there ever is, Guam, our beautiful island and all
the nuclear weapons possibly stored there will be one of the first places to
go.
Give peace a chance lai, cause its our only chance...
Si Yu'us Ma'ase, ya usuni sumahuma minagahet yan na'suha dinagi
Sahuma
ARTICLES:
A Chamorro Perspective on the War in Iraq
by Michael Lujan Bevacqua -
Saddam Hussein has been captured and a Chamorro has died in Iraq. George Bush has said that this war is a success and that it has been justified, but the reasons for it have ranged in the past year. Most of the reasons given for this war months ago have turned out to be fabrications and outright lies. Christopher Rivera Wesley and 460 other American troops have died not for freedom and democracy, but to protect the interests of George Bush and to line the already profit stuffed pockets of Dick Cheney and others. It is a sad truth that each Chamorro must realize that in war while the rich get profits, the poor receive caskets. And it is time that we as Chamorros start to rethink our attitudes about war.
Pokka' - Interview with a Chamorro pro-choice activist
by Rita Lujan Butler -
The abortion struggle in Guam more than a decade ago was one of those events such as World War II or The Spanish American War that put Guam on the map of American consciousness. Divisions were created within families, amongst friends and between Chamorros and the Catholic Church. Rita Butler shares her experiences as a pro-choice activist on Guam and in Washington D.C. and provides an update on the current struggles over a woman's right to choice.
Letter to the PDN editor - The renaming of Marine Drive.
by The Chamorro Information Activists
In response to the resolution passed by the Guam Legislature regarding an official renaming of Guam's main roadway, this letter was sent to the Pacific Daily News.
This issue's antigo na palabra Chamorro -
hakku: To be paralyzed or not able to straighten your limbs, to be mafoyung in love.
for example, Hakku yu' put Hagu or Ai lana dei boi, gos hakku yu' put este na cinolonized.
This issue's
quote to think on and apply to Guam -
"There is something very odious and unnatural about a government a thousand leagues off."
John Adams, former president of the Untied States of America
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