{"id":21487,"date":"2020-08-08T05:00:49","date_gmt":"2020-08-07T20:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/08\/our-childrens-lives-on-the-line-the-ongoing-battle-for-guam"},"modified":"2020-08-08T05:00:49","modified_gmt":"2020-08-07T20:00:49","slug":"our-childrens-lives-on-the-line-the-ongoing-battle-for-guam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=21487","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Our children&#8217;s lives on the line&#8217;: the ongoing battle for Guam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>America\u2019s militarisation of the western Pacific island threatens its ecosystem, culture and history, a plea before the UN argues <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s hard to pinpoint exactly the moment one \u2026 starts to see the great game afoot,\u201d Julian Aguon says, before pausing, and catching himself.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor me, it came into sharp focus in 2005, when the US struck a bilateral agreement with Japan to move thousands of marines from Okinawa to Guam. It was just announced. That\u2019s how these things go, they\u2019re just flung from high heaven. I decided to go to law school right then and there: the law was being weaponised against my people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/08\/our-childrens-lives-on-the-line-the-ongoing-battle-for-guam\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>America\u2019s militarisation of the western Pacific island threatens its ecosystem, culture and history, a plea before the UN argues \u201cIt\u2019s hard to pinpoint exactly the moment one \u2026 starts to see the great game afoot,\u201d Julian Aguon says, before pausing, and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1497,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1272,503,88,874,282,84,473,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guam","category-indigenous-peoples","category-japan","category-pacific-islands","category-south-pacific","category-united-nations","category-us-military","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1497"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21487"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21488,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21487\/revisions\/21488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}