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Hafa Adai and Welcome to Militarization in the Marianas, an informational website about the U.S. military presence in the CNMI and Guam. This website serves to avail you of resources regarding the impacts of the U.S. military in the Marianas. It was designed for accessibility to the residents of the Marianas, who have often had only official Pentagon information to use in assessing that impact. It is meant to critically analyze the U.S. military as an institution that has been a domineering presence within the Marianas for decades, a presence that has not been adequately assessed and critiqued because of this lack of information. This website will help residents make informed decisions about future military plans for the use of these islands. It will also allow community members to assess the costs and abuses –documented and undocumented- that have been associated with the presence of such a powerful institution, especially in the midst of the upcoming military build-up. Because the process of militarization is merely one facet of the long and complex colonial relations between the Pacific and the United States, related links and resources on this website will also help to elucidate these connections. Please write contact@milmarianas.com for more information and/or comments.
Please see "Links" for an archive of articles and other related information.
NOTICE***The Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) Is available at http://www.guambuildupeis.us/
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Below is a compilation of photographs taken on the islands of Saipan and Guam. They are the visible representations of our militarizatized past and a reminder of our current relationship with the United States Military. For those of us from the Marianas, many of these images will be familiar, but we are invited to look at them in a different light. Such visible signs of militarization should no longer be valorized by the people of the Marianas, but re-examined with a critical eye in order to understand how our landscapes have been forever changed by the destructive nature of militarism and war.