Tomorrow, Saturday January 9th, there will be an open house and public hearing regarding the Draft Environmental Impact Statement released by the Dept. of Defense and Joint Guam Programming Office on November 20th.

This 11,000 page document details how the environment as well as community and economy of Guam and the entire Marianas will be affected by the military buildup.

I’ll be speaking during the testimonials at UOG.

On November 13th, I was described by the Mariana’s Variety’s Editor in the Op/Ed section of the MV as the “lone voice” and “lone student” who spoke up and questioned the “talking heads” at the UOG sponsored Community and Economic Development Forum @ The Sheraton Resort (which sadly, not many UOG students attended).

Reeling off of that story, Dr. Robert Underwood’s response, and the words of fellow students, activists, and educators, I’ll be delivering a short speech tomorrow @ UOG in regards to empowering youth to become more educated about the coming changes, and I’ll also be touching on how misrepresentation in government stems from lack of participation by the governed.

Regardless of political party, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, religious affiliation, age, or gender… changes are coming to our island, good and bad, we’re all going to be affected. Please attend tomorrow’s hearing on the DEIS, educate yourself and prepare yourself for the coming changes. If you don’t ready yourself now, where’s the validity in your complaints and cries ex post facto?

Anyone who see’s this tumblr post, I encourage you to come out to UOG, around 5PM to see what’s going on.

A transcript of my speech will be available via Guamology.com and on this tumblr sometime later.

Peace,