Solidarity, Not Spam: Defend Chamoru Self-Determination, Oppose Bill 242-38!
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🗓️ 17 February 2026
⏱️ 71 minutes
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URGENT: Sign now to oppose Bill 242-38; the hearing is happening as this episode drops. Petition: https://forms.gle/zEoq7Rf6Jmg32jTS7
Note: The recording took place 24 hours before the public hearing at the Guam Congress Building on Bill 242-38.
Red Power Hour co-host Melanie Yazzie and TRN comrade Tåhdong talk with Melvin Won Pat-Borja (Executive Director, Guam Commission on Decolonization) and Michael Lujan Bevacqua (Co-Chair, Independent Guåhan) about why Bill 242-38 would erase a Native-Inhabitant–led vote and violate CHamoru self-determination. We cover Guåhan and Micronesia's decolonization history, the ways U.S. citizenship is switched on/off by a militarized agenda, how an Independent Micronesia could shift Guam from being America's "tip of the spear" to a bridge of peace between East and West, and why Indigenous solidarity is more powerful than spam.
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| 0:00.0 | One of the principal barriers to assimilation seems to be the natural tendency of white people |
| 0:09.0 | to violence. They love violence. They love it as entertainment. |
| 0:14.0 | The very foundation of their way of life, death and sacrifice. |
| 0:20.0 | White people, with almost missionary zeal, have done their best to export death and sacrifice. White people with almost missionary zeal |
| 0:22.6 | have done their best to export death and sacrifice |
| 0:25.6 | for every corner of the world. |
| 0:29.6 | We are not American. |
| 0:32.6 | We are not American. |
| 0:34.6 | We are not American. |
| 0:36.6 | We are not American. We are not American Jack. We're not American. You're not American. |
| 0:38.2 | Better red than dead. |
| 0:40.0 | Better red than dead. |
| 0:42.0 | Better red than dead. |
| 0:43.5 | Yeah. |
| 0:45.8 | Yeah. |
| 0:49.8 | Hi, everyone. |
| 0:51.0 | Yates. |
| 0:51.6 | This is Melanie Yazi. |
| 0:52.7 | Co-hoster Red Power Hour. |
| 1:11.7 | We're back with another special episode, actually, of the Red Nation podcast. I'm joined here by some really amazing chomoral relatives. And we're going to talk about an important issue that's happening right now. You know, I'm calling in from Minisho Alto Mococe. Obviously, we're, you know, we've been under occupation by ICE here in Turtle Island. So a lot of attention has been here |
| 1:17.4 | in the geographical region where I currently live. But there's a lot going on that maybe is not |
| 1:23.2 | making as much news. And so we wanted to lend the podcast to this really important issue. |
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