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Natives of Guam Decry U.S. Expansion Plan

Pentagon plan for a massive military build-up on the Pacific island of Guam is meeting with resistance by ethnic Chamorros who live there and the Chamorro diaspora in the United States. Activists believe the redeployment will result in a total influx of approximately 35,000 people, a number they say will overwhelm their small island, which has a population of just 168,000 people. (Aaron Glantz, IPS, 12 December 2006)

http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=35816

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Chamorro

A site devoted to preserving and sharing the culture of the Chamorro people of the Marianas Islands.

http://www.chamorro.com/

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Guam

Guam is a multi-ethnic society in the Mariana Islands in the Pacific. This 16 page working paper was prepared by the Secretariat of the Special Committee on the Situation with regard to the Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples. (United Nations, 16 April 2006)

http://daccessdds.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/N06/275/46/PDF/N0627546.pdf?OpenElement

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Guam & Saipan: The Military Means Business In Depressed Micronesian Economies

While the end of the Cold War brought a downsizing of U. S. military activity globally, including on Guam, since 2002, the military has increased investment into its Guam and Northern Marianas facilities. Valuing the taxes paid by the military to local government, the Saipan Chamber of Commerce and the Guam Chamber of Commerce have taken steps to promote the islands to military decision makers. (Frank Whitman, Pacifc Magazine, September 2002)

http://www.pacificislands.cc/pm92002/pmdefault.php?urlarticleid=0007

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Micronesian Seminar (MicSem)

Micronesian Seminar (MicSem) is a research-pastoral institute founded by the Catholic Church in 1972. Its main mission is community education, although it has engaged in social research and history. For over 25 years, MicSem has served the people of what was once the Trust Territory of the Pacific--the Federated States of Micronesia, Palau, the Marshall Islands, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.

http://www.micsem.org/

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