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No War With Iran
Two more soldiers from Guam killed this week , while fighting in Afghanistan. A Chamorro working as a private contractor was killed last month in Iraq. The total for the entire Micronesian region (Guam, CNMI, FSM, RMI and Palau) is now up to 28 killed in the total War on Terror. Scary statistics that should make even the most "patriotic" resident of the region think twice about out this war and our participation in it. Looking at this death toll, and all the media coverage about how young people in these islands are just dying and desperate to sign up and serve, I am reminded of one of the final lines from Michael Moores' film Fahrenheit 911: "I've always been amazed that the very people forced to live in the worst parts of town, go to the worst schools, and who have it the hardest are always the first to step up, to defend us. They serve so that we don't have to. They offer to give up their lives so that we can be free. It is remarkably their gift to us. ...
...job loss, failing schools, prohibitively expensive health care, pensions at risk...
Everytime I see film of that infamous green background speech that John McCain gave a few weeks ago, I cringe. Ko'lo'lo'na annai ha chalekin maisa gui'! Especially when he laughs at himself. He reminds me of an old man who isn't quite old enough yet to not care about other people's discomfort and be oblivious to whether or not they are paying attention, and so still nervously tries to provoke people to respond to what he is saying, to pay attention to him. That little smile that he gives makes me feel sad, but also sends a shiver up my spine. Last month, in an effort to spice up the faltering campaign of John McCain, Stephen Colbert threw down another gauntlet to net-savy audience, by challenging them to take a short segment from that infamous speech, and twist it until John McCain was exciting! Some of the entries have been uploaded to Youtube and so I'm posting them below. I have to admit, that even though watching the actual video of the speech makes me c...
Film Interns Needed
Umesgon este na dos gi as Alex Munoz: ***************************** SUMMER INTERN NEEDED For Community Outreach and Community Relations regarding the upcoming GUAM Feature Film " I FUETSAN I TAO TAO ". Job description - Manage successful community outreach campaign. - manage all correspondence with Community Leaders and Elders - create and distribute Bi Monthly news letters - Recruit and generate community support for film project - Communications Liason with Political and Community Leaders on GUAM regarding PROJECT WORKFORCE. -Post and stream sizzle spots for film - Manage I FUETSAN I TAO TAO my space site. Contact : Alex Munoz @ Alexcmunoz@gmail.com ************************************* FYI Films, a program that teaches filmmaking to youth in the juvenile justice system in Los Angeles, is looking for undergraduate and graduate student interns this summer to aid in various short and long-term projects. This is an exciting opportunity to learn about the nonprofit media arts c...
Racial Fantasies
The supporters of Democratic Senator and Presidential hopeful Barack Obama had a bit of a scare the other day, as the media reported that his plane, headed for Charlotte, North Carolina, had been forced to make an emergency landing in St. Louis, Missouri. Here's the article from The Guardian : Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama's campaign plane made an unscheduled landing in St Louis, Missouri, today after experiencing a control problem in the skies over the mid-western US. The plane's pilot told passengers the trouble involved the "controllability of the pitch". Pitch is the position of the nose up or down relative to the wings. The aircraft was en route from Obama's hometown of Chicago to Charlotte, North Carolina, where Obama was scheduled to give a speech on the economy. Midwest Airlines said the problem developed because an emergency slide located in the tail cone of the MD-80 airplane deployed in flight but never threatened the safety of the fl...
Ireland and Baghdad
Bringing Ireland to Baghdad: How the Resistance Will Eventually Kick the Americans Out By Gary Brecher , AlterNet . Posted July 2, 2008. One thing the United States doesn't get about guerrilla warfare: It's not over until the guerrillas win. It's very easy to see what's up in Iraq right now -- if you're willing to face it. The trouble is, most "experts" aren't willing. That has been the pattern right from the beginning. We didn't want to admit there even was an insurgency, and even now, nobody misses a chance to declare that "the surge worked," as if that translates to "we win, it's over, let's go home." Fact number one about guerrilla wars: They're not over until the guerrillas win. Mao set out the guerrilla's viewpoint 80 years ago: "The enemy wants to fight a short war, but we simply will not let him." The longer the guerrillas stay in the game, the sicker the occupying army gets. Sooner or later, th...