Bonus: Chris Discusses U.S. Navy Bombing of the Mariana Islands

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🗓️ 16 November 2018

⏱️ 37 minutes

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U.S. Pacific territories: What are they? Why do we have them? And why is the U.S. Navy trying to drop bombs on a tiny, inhabited, volcanic island? Producer Chris discusses territorial activism on the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and resisting the Navy running amok there, with journalist Sophia Perez. Go Fund Me for Super Typhoon Yutu Relief: https://www.gofundme.com/super-typhoon-yutu-relief-campaign More info about the Navy's plans to increase militarization in the Pacific (and where to donate to the resistance): http://chamorro.com Sophia's podcast, The Alternative Zero Project: https://m.soundcloud.com/alternativezeroproject or wherever you get your podcasts

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0:00.0	Hi everybody, producer Chris here, back with another little dispatch from activists around
0:05.7	the country.
0:06.7	This one comes to us courtesy of Sophia Perez.
0:09.6	She is a writer who approached me after our recent Brooklyn live shows to tell me about
0:13.8	issues regarding the US Navy and their bombing of the Northern Mariana Islands, a US territory
0:19.9	in the Pacific Ocean.
0:21.7	I hadn't heard anything of this story before and I didn't really know much about our
0:24.8	Pacific Islands territories and it turns out it kind of reveals a lot about our territorial
0:29.2	governance, treatment of indigenous peoples and the continual slow grind of American
0:33.6	empire on our territories all over the world.
0:36.4	So I thought I would try to bring this story from her to you.
0:40.3	Plus Sophia brought me a really tasty, flon, pudding-ish kind of treat which went a long
0:45.1	way into peaking my interest about the Marianas.
0:48.9	As always I'm interested in hearing more stories of local issues and activism, potentially
0:52.8	covering them.
0:53.8	So if there's something you think I should know about, feel free to get in touch with
0:56.6	me.
0:57.6	I'm at say what again on Twitter and my DMs are open.
1:00.8	I'll try to at least read everything sent as I'm looking for new material but also bringing
1:04.8	me tasty treats is apparently a big decider.
1:08.8	Alright, on to island time, baby.
1:12.3	Hey, Sophia, how are you doing today?
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