{"id":250878,"date":"2017-04-25T06:00:56","date_gmt":"2017-04-24T20:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=250878"},"modified":"2017-04-25T06:00:56","modified_gmt":"2017-04-24T20:00:56","slug":"independent-guahan-launch-new-village-outreach-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/independent-guahan-launch-new-village-outreach-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Independent Guahan to launch new village outreach campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>GUAM<\/strong>\u2014In their continuing efforts to educate the island community about decolonization, Independent Guahan will be holding their monthly general assembly at the Chalan Pago Community Center on Thursday, April 27, from 6pm to 7:30pm. This month\u2019s assembly represents a new initiative by the group to bring informational resources and critical conversations about independence as a political status option directly into the island\u2019s villages. <\/p>\n<p>Since August of last year, Independent Guahan has been holding monthly general assembly meetings in the main pavilion of the Chamorro Village. This month\u2019s meeting in Chalan Pago represents a new phase of educational outreach, where each monthly assembly will move to a new village. Jessy Gogue, Mayor of Ordot-Chalan Pago, is working closely with Independent Guahan to invite village residents to attend the meeting and learn more about political status change. <\/p>\n<p>The educational focus for this month\u2019s meeting is \u201cIndependence 101\u201d or a basic overview of what possibilities lay in the future should Guam become an independent country, as well as a discussion about some of the basic misconceptions about independence as a political status. <\/p>\n<p>At each general assembly, a Maga\u2019taotao or community hero is chosen to be honored. For the April assembly, Ben and Susie Arceo, World War II survivors and prominent residents of Ordot-Chalan P\u00e5go will be honored for their work in promoting and protecting the heritage of the Chamorro people. <\/p>\n<p>Starting with this meeting, Independent Guahan general assemblies will now be held on the last Thursday of each month. <\/p>\n<p>For more information, please contact Dr. Michael Lujan Bevacqua at (671) 988-7106, email independentguahan@gmail.com, or visit www.independentguahan.com. <strong>(PR)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GUAM\u2014In their continuing efforts to educate the island community about decolonization, Independent Guahan will be&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[16481,51,16482,16483],"class_list":["post-250878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-chalan-pago","tag-guam","tag-independent-guahan","tag-jessy-gogue"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250878\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}