Change isn’t bad, in fact it is essential and unavoidable. BUT, what makes my guts gurgle and brings tears to my eyes is the ignorance and cruelty of this intricate plan of the U.S. military to turn OUR HOME into some cutting-edge “violence factory” under the guise by patriotism and illusions of prosperity.
I hate to think of OUR situation as modern colonization. This life we live is not a movie. The strain of this plan, if it goes through, I fear would deteriorate the livelihood, identity, ecosystem and who knows what else of OUR HOME and its people.
We are not an inferior breed of human beings. OUR HOME is not a playground for global superpowers to play nuclear games with. AND as the indigenous race, and the Mariana Islands being OUR homeland, we have the human right to OUR own self-determination.
CLARA RABAULIMAN
Portland, Oregon
