BONUS: The State of the U.S. Colonies

Paseo Podcast: Sharing Puerto Rican Stories

English - March 04, 2022 21:18 - 1 hour - 114 MB - ★★★★★ - 26 ratings
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For this bonus episode, we’re sharing a Facebook Live panel discussion from Power 4 Puerto Rico. The topic of discussion is on the State of the U.S. Colonies. Listen in to hear from leaders, scholars, and activists from American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, the Northern Mariana Islands and the U.S. Virgin Islands on the major challenges these colonies face and how to be an ally in struggles for land rights, food sovereignty and more.

The panelists you’ll hear from in this episode include:

John Gonzales - President of the Northern Marianas Descent (NMD) Corporation and Member of the 2nd Marianas Political Status Commission
Melissa Mark-Viverito - Chief Policy Officer for the Puerto Rican Cultural Center in Chicago
Tiara Na’puti - Mellon/ACLS Scholars & Society Fellow with Independent Guåhan
Sommer Sibilly-Brown - Founder and Executive Director of Virgin Islands Good Food Coalition
Chief Maluseu Doris Tulifau - Founder, Brown Girl Woke in American Samoa and Samoa

The panel moderator is independent journalist Bianca Graulau.

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