On Thursday, May 8, President George W. Bush signed into law Senate bill S.2739, the Consolidated Natural Resources Act of 2008. It’s ironic – if no longer a surprise to those of us familiar with the way the United States treats its offshore territories – that a bill on “natural resources” contained legislation addressing immigration […]
Guam’s Women Leaders Say No to U.S. Military Build-Up
By 2014, the United States plans to spend $10 billion to move 8,000 Marines and their 9,000 dependents from Okinawa to Guam. This move will more than triple the military’s already massive presence on the small island of Guam (population 172,000), flooding the island with an additional 40,000 people associated with the military build-up. The […]
Welcome note from the Director
Welcome to Horse Opera’s spanky new blog for The Insular Empire: America in the Marianas. In the weeks and months ahead, I will be posting updates and information here regarding the film’s progress. Currently The Insular Empire is at a rough cut stage — meaning the basic structure is in place, but there’s still a […]