{"id":251121,"date":"2024-05-16T15:50:50","date_gmt":"2024-05-16T15:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/indigenous-islanders-in-guam-take-on-the-military\/"},"modified":"2024-05-16T19:53:46","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T19:53:46","slug":"indigenous-islanders-in-guam-take-on-the-military","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/indigenous-islanders-in-guam-take-on-the-military\/","title":{"rendered":"Indigenous Islanders in Guam Take on the Military"},"content":{"rendered":"
The U.S. military creates a lot of\u00a0hazardous waste. Its proposed solution? Burn or detonate up to 35,000 pounds of its leftover munitions each year on ancestral lands that it seized after World War II and local families seek to have returned.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n This dangerous scheme is unfolding in the U.S. territory of Guam, and with the help of Earthjustice, a group called \u201cPrutehi Litekyan: Save Ritidian\u201d is fighting back. Led by activists from the CHamoru community, Indigenous people who have called Guam and the other Mariana Islands home for more than 3,500 years, Prutehi Litekyan is challenging the military\u2019s efforts in court.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n Group member Monaeka Flores, whose\u00a0family once ranched the land\u00a0next to the military\u2019s proposed disposal site, talks about why it\u2019s important to stop the military\u2019s plans \u2014 both in Guam, and nationwide. Earthjustice is supporting these efforts as…<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n