Loving Guam, fighting empire with Julian Aguon

Hello from the imperial U.S.A.!

Our special guest this week is the CHamoru activist attorney and writer Julian Aguon. Julian calls in from Guam to talk about his new book, The Properties of Perpetual Light, which comes out at the end of the month. (Pre-order it for you and a friend!)

Julian reads from the book and talks about: 

• Developing his voice as a writer and mixing genres: from poetry to political commentary to personal essay; 

• Guam/CHamoru identity and attempts to build solidarity with other colonized and indigenous peoples across the world;

• His work as a lawyer with Blue Ocean Law;

• Guam as a hotspot of climate change and militarization;

• How Guam, as a U.S. colony, is often stuck in the old and ongoing U.S.-China conflict.

For more, check out:

• Julian’s 2017 piece (In These Times) on Guam in the crosshairs of U.S.-North Korean saber rattling;

• Julian’s recent book talk at American University;

• Reporting by Chris Gelardi and Sophia Perez (The Nation) on how people in Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands are fighting U.S. militarism.

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