{"id":1564,"date":"2010-06-01T23:26:13","date_gmt":"2010-06-01T23:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theinsularempire.com\/?p=1564"},"modified":"2014-07-17T21:26:06","modified_gmt":"2014-07-17T21:26:06","slug":"democracy-now-covers-the-marianas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theinsularempire.com\/?p=1564","title":{"rendered":"Democracy Now! Covers the Marianas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theinsularempire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/logohires6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1565\" src=\"https:\/\/theinsularempire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/logohires6-525x323.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"323\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theinsularempire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/logohires6-525x323.jpg 525w, https:\/\/theinsularempire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/logohires6-1024x631.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/theinsularempire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/logohires6.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/a>Democracy Now! recently aired this piece, featuring footage from <em>The Insular Empire<\/em>: <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2010\/5\/24\/from_japan_to_guam_to_hawaii\">From Japan to Guam to Hawai\u2019i, Activists Resist  Expansion of US Military Presence in the Pacific<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The segment features a discussion with three incredibly articulate activists, each representing people struggling to reduce the US military&#8217;s footprint in their island nations. Kyle Kajihiro of Hawaii, Kozue Akibayashi of Japan, and Melvin Won Pat Borja of Guam were all in New York to attend the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.justicewithpeace.org\/node\/779\"> United for Justice and Peace<\/a> conference, a precursor to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty conference meeting held in NYC last month.<\/p>\n<p>Personally I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s possible for Amy Goodman to have looked more bored, or more gray, than she does in her introduction to the segment&#8230; but if you can get past that, there&#8217;s a lot of really great information in the interviews themselves.<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/embed_show_v2\/300\/2010\/5\/24\/story\/from_japan_to_guam_to_hawaii\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democracy Now! recently aired this piece, featuring footage from The Insular Empire: From Japan to Guam to Hawai\u2019i, Activists Resist Expansion of US Military Presence in the Pacific. The segment features a discussion with three incredibly articulate activists, each representing people struggling to reduce the US military&#8217;s footprint in their island nations. Kyle Kajihiro of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,86],"tags":[95,103,105,89,167,104,108,107,106,94],"class_list":["post-1564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-guam-military-buildup","tag-camp-schwab","tag-democracy-now","tag-dmz-hawaii","tag-guam","tag-guam-military-buildup","tag-hawaii","tag-henoko","tag-kozue-akibayashi","tag-kyle-kajihiro","tag-okinawa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theinsularempire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theinsularempire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theinsularempire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theinsularempire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theinsularempire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1564"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/theinsularempire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2311,"href":"https:\/\/theinsularempire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1564\/revisions\/2311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theinsularempire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theinsularempire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theinsularempire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}