Hope Cristobal and Julian Aguon
US Military Expansion and 21st Century Colonialism: Governance and Self-Determination on Guam

Lecture

Thursday, October 8, 2009
4:15PM

 

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"US Military Expansion and 21st Century Colonialism: Governance and Self-Determination on Guam," with Hope Cristobal and Julian Aguon.

Hope Cristobal has been a Chamoru self-determination advocate for over thirty years.  She is a history instructor at the University of Guam, a former Senator in the Guam legislature, and a farmer.  She has focused her efforts on urging United Nations assistance to the territory with regard to implementing the decolonization mandate for Guam.

Julian Aguon is a Chamoru civil rights attorney and a speaker throughout the Americas and the Asia-Pacific region on issues of self-determination, demilitarization, indigenous rights, and international law. He is the author of three books, Just Left of the Setting Sun (2005), The Fire This Time: Stories of Life Under U.S. Occupation (2006), and What We Bury at Night: Disposable Humanity (2008).


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