NO REST FOR THE AWAKE - MINAGAHET CHAMORRO

Pumara yu' manainaitai put i inadiskuti put "Health Care" giya i Estados Unidos. Para Guahu esta gof na'o'sun, sa' hunggan guaha dos na banda gi este na inadiskuti lao ti chumilong i dos banda. Unu na banda ha kuentusisiyi i meggaina na taotao gi i nasion, i otro banda ha kuentusisiyi un dikike' na patte yan didide' na pinat manakhilo' na taotao. Lao giya Guahan, sa' achokka' chechetton iya Guahan gi i Estados Unidos, ti mismo un kabales na patte i isla-ta, este na inadiskuti taibali. I fina'tinas i Federalas ha afefekta hit, ha hohokse' hit maskeseha ti ta aprepreba hafa ma fa'titinas. Taigue i magahet na bos-ta gi i diniskuti yan gi i fina'lai. Lao ya-hu este na video ginnen John Green. Malate' gui'. Ti ha na'lebok i kuentos, ha kena'klaru. Ya i atmas-na inestudia yan ti puniyon na fakto.

Opposition to the Affordable Care Act by Bruce Karolle Letter to the Editor Marianas Variety 10/29/13 AMAZINGLY, Obamacare threatens America’s unique status among the world’s advanced economies. As a nation where access to regular medical care has been a privilege, a privilege, according to many right-wing conservatives, that must be earned. We are the only advanced, Western-oriented country in the world with such a privileged healthcare system. Our friends in Canada and our buddies the Brits (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland), perhaps America’s two closest allies, have had for years superior national health plans for all their citizens, as have other developed countries, i.e., France, Australia and Israel. When measured comparatively, their costs are far less than ours over the past decades. Since the days of President Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt (early 1900s), seven other U.S. presidents, in my lifetime, have proposed national heal

June 28th, 2012 7:23 PM More Than a Victory, the Decision Today Was a Mandate for Us to Act By Michael Moore From Michael Moore.com     Even though it's been a few hours now, I'm guessing you're still pinching yourself to make sure you're not dreaming. But yes, it happened. At 10:07 this morning, the conservative Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, John Roberts, not only joined with the liberal justices to completely uphold almost every single part of the Obama health care law, he wrote the majority opinion himself! In fact, he went even further. When he realized that the government had poorly made its constitutional case to the court, he went searching for a clause in their argument and the constitution that would give him the justification he needed to back the administration and to insure that his decision would hold up legally. In other words, even thoug

Check out this article below from KUAM. It deals with meetings that the Federated States of Micronesia Association of Guam had in order to draw up some plans on how to deal with violence and crimes that are being attributed to the Micronesian community of Guam, in particular the Chuukese. They even created an education plan with alot of ideas on how to alleviate the social problems within Micronesian communities and those which spill out into the general public. I don't want to speak to the specific issue of Micronesians in Guam, as the available language and ideas makes it almost impossible to have a productive conversation. The "Micronesian problem" is what it is usually referred to as, and it is a textbook example of how a class or group of people become associated, in a way which becomes too commonsensically and too natural, with the ills of the world. Every society has problems, and every ethnic group has problems or roles in creating those problems. The problem

I love going to Anao in Yigo. I've only been there a few times, but I really enjoy it each time I go. For those of you who haven't heard of Anao, it's north of Hanom, almost on the edge of Anderson. In order to get there you hike for about 20 mins through some jungle and then get to the cliff's edge where a trail will take you down several hundred feet to the rocky limestone shore. There are some pretty cool features once you reach the limestone shore for those who love natural beauty. There is a massive rock that some people call "the pinnacle" that sticks conspciously out of the rest of the fairly flat limestone. When I took my History of Guam and World History 2 students to Anao last week, we explored to the north and found a pretty neat cove. There was a large rock, well over twenty feet high that stuck out past the shore, and was connected by a narrow land bridge. Several of my students and I climbed up it to take pictures. I recommend visiting Anao

Last year anthropologist David Vine visited Guam as part of a research trip where he visited areas around the world where communities were protesting (in various ways) the presence of US bases near them. While this is his most current research project, he is best known for his work on chronicling the plight of the Chagos Islanders, who come from the island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean. If you are in the military you have most likely heard about the base there. If you are a fan of the live-action Transformers films then you might remember it being featured as a secure location where a sliver of the infamous all-spark is kept safe. If you are someone, who like me keeps lists of the not-so-great-things that have been done by the US over its history, than Diego Garcia is a particularly gross and recent atrocity. Through postwar collusion between the US and British governments, the people living in Diego Garcia were first tricked into leaving their island and barred from returning

"How Do You Like America?" Keiko Matsui Gibson 1994 Taking off from Osaka I saw my mother standing with a handkerchief over her eyes and my father trying to hide a hole in his heart-mind. Then my country blurred. For seven years I have heard: "Where do you come from? China? Korea? Japan? How long have you been in America? Is your family still in Japan? I sure bet they miss you! Did you meet your husband there? Does he speak Japanese? You speak English very well! Where did you learn to speak it? How do you like America?" I pity, fear, and love it. America is huge and sick optimistic and terrifying immature but lovable. Americans' friendly questions dislocated my Japanese bones. I automatically answered like a dog watering its mouth: "I was born in Kyoto, Japan. It is a modern ancient city. I've been in America since Jimmy Carter was President. My parents are still in Osaka. Because I'm an only child we miss eac