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May 29 – Save Pagat Village

WHAT: A celebration of Pagat Village WHEN: May 29, 2010 @ 6pm WHERE: Skinner’s Plaza

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Save Pagat Village

The Guam Preservation Trust is seeking to save Pagat Village, a cultural resource on Guam that is threatened by the proposed military build-up. The Department of Defense currently plans to locate a machine gun firing range near Pagat Village, which is one of the last remaining and best preserved ancient Chamorro settlements. For more information […]

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Pagat featured in Time Magazine

Time Magazine has featured Pagat as one of the the 11 Most Endangered Historical Places. Pagat, Yigo, Guam Home to the Chamorro people, the island of Guam has struggled to maintain its cultural heritage, which has been traced back thousands of years. This site was once a Chamorro Village. Along with other parts of the […]

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PNC Airs Story on Housing Grey Paper

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inl5XutZwNA&feature=player_embedded PNC recently aired a story on The Grey Paper: GHURA on Housing.  The story is available at: http://www.pacificnewscenter.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5140:grey-papers-discuss-negative-impacts-to-housing&catid=45:guam-news&Itemid=156

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The Grey Paper on Housing

What are the government agencies saying about the buildup? What did the DEIS say about the buildup? Read The Grey Papers. Short. Straight. In Their Own Words. compiled by We Are Guåhan This issue: Housing Download: The Grey Paper – Housing here (file is 5.6Mb). A copy of GHURA’s Comprehensive Housing Study can be found […]

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Public Radio International Runs Story on Buildup

PRI ran a story entitled “Guam people ponder their identity.”  Members of the Guam community were interviewed about their thoughts on the proposed buildup. The story can be found at: http://www.theworld.org/2010/04/29/guam-people-ponder-their-identity/comment-page-1/

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Marianas Variety Runs Story that Portions of the DEIS Were Plagiarized

The Marianas Variety reports: A representative from TEC [Note: TEC, Inc. is the contractor paid to prepare the DEIS], who requested that he be identified only as “director of administration,” admitted that the portion in question was lifted from the scientific document. “We did not adequately give that guy attribution,” the TEC representative told Variety. […]

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NOAA Outlines Significant Concerns on DEIS

On February 17, 2010, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) National Marine Fisherises Service  (NMFS) submitted a letter outlining its “key issues of concern” with the DEIS. NOAA observed that “[t]his action is unprecedented in the Pacific as it is the largest troop movemenet since World War II, includes the largest dredging action in […]

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The Nation Runs Article on Buildup

An article entitled “Living at the ‘Tip of the Spear’ written by Koohan Paik was published in the May 3, 2010 edition of The Nation. You can read the article at: http://www.thenation.com/doc/20100503/paik

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PNC Airs Story on EPA Grey Paper

PNC aired a story on We Are Guahan’s release of The Grey Papers: EPA on the DEIS. A write-up of the story can be found at: http://www.pacificnewscenter.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4505:we-are-guahan-release-grey-papers2&catid=45:guam-news&Itemid=156

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