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DESCRIPTION:The Insular Empire: America’s Pacific Frontier is a documentary film 
 about America at its westernmost limits, the Mariana Islands of the western 
 Pacific Ocean. Six thousand miles from the U.S. mainland, the Marianas, 
 which include the U.S. Territory of Guam and the U.S. Commonwealth of the 
 Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI), have played a crucial role in American 
 history, and national security over the past century. Yet most Americans 
 know nothing about them or about the indigenous communities who call them 
 home. \n\nThe Insular Empire will change this. \n\nThe Insular Empire will 
 let a broad American and Pacific audience know that U.S. citizenship for 
 the Chamorro and Carolinian communities of the Marianas is not complete 
 citizenship. That U.S. citizens on Guam may have their citizenship revoked 
 by an Act of Congress. That both "insular areas" lack voting representation 
 in the U.S. Congress, and that the CNMI lacks any representation at all. 
 That despite this, the federal government maintains a remarkable degree of 
 control over the islands' laws and economic resources. That the Chamorros 
 of Guam have not yet achieved self-determination. And that young people 
 from the Mariana Islands are fighting and dying for - but cannot vote for - 
 their Commander-in-Chief, the President of the United States. \n\nThese are 
 indigenous rights issues. They are civil rights issues. They are human 
 rights issues. But they must be made visible before they can be 
 addressed.\n\n\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/05/04/18409623.php
SUMMARY:The Insular Empire: America's Pacific Frontier
LOCATION:Fellowship Hall, First Baptist Church, 305 N. California Ave., Palo Alto 
 (Wheelchair accessible)
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/05/04/18409623.php
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