Showing posts with label Pacific Island Women. Show all posts
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Thursday, February 25, 2016

American Samoa Demands Citizenship Or Else Independence!



American Samoa is an unincorporated U.S. territory in the South Pacific Ocean. The territory is a chain of eight islands/atolls with the neighboring independent nation of Samoa to the northwest.

The capital of the territory is the town of Pago Pago.

The U.S. territory's governor is Lolo Matalasi Moliga who is an independent but aligns himself with the Democratic Party.

The U.S. territory is demanding American citizenship, voting rights and recognition. There are residents taking the matter into the Supreme Court.
Pago Pago is the capital of the United States territory of American Samoa.
Tuaua v. United States is being heard in the Court. What is being argued among the justices is the granted legal status of people born on U.S. soil. Those who are born in American Samoa are U.S. nationals, not citizens. They are denied voting rights, opportunities to apply for state and federal jobs if they choose to move to the mainland.

The Citizenship Clause of the U.S. Constitution provides that “All persons born . . . in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States.”  Federal laws and policies that deny citizenship to people born in American Samoa violate this Clause and are unconstitutional.

I was interested in the matter when comedian/satirist John Oliver of HBO's Last Week Tonight brought attention to voting rights not being established in the U.S. territories.

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Lene Tuaua is fighting for the right to be recognized as an American citizen. 
We The People's Project has invested heavily in this matter. Lene Tuaua was born in American Samoa. He served in the military and gave his life to the country.

Tuaua v. United States is a court case that originated when a group of American Samoans sued the State Department and the Obama administration. They sued to force the government to award American Samoans birthright citizenship, arguing that the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution guarantees that anyone born in the United States is automatically granted citizenship.

The case originated as a complaint filed in 2012 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, and the case was docketed in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia in 2013. Briefs were filed in 2014, and an oral argument was made last year.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled 3-0 to deny birthright citizenship to American Samoans, ruling that the guarantee of such citizenship to citizens in the Fourteenth Amendment does not apply to U.S. island territories.
Republican congresswoman Amata Coleman Radewagen is the non-voting delegate from the U.S. territory of American Samoa. She became the first woman and Republican to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Attorneys filed a petition requesting that the Supreme Court of the United States review the Appeals Court's decision.

They are pressuring lawmakers in Washington to full grant citizenship to those living in American Samoa. They are pressuring Congress to grant full voting rights to all residents of the U.S. territories.

The residents on these territories aren't allow to vote for the President of the United States.

Did you know that 4.7 Americans live in the occupied territories administrated by the United States?

The District of Columbia, American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, the Northern Mariana Islands and the U.S. Virgin Islands have U.S. Representatives who are non-voting delegates to Congress.

Friday, October 16, 2015

Democrats Got A Real Mess On Them!

Democratic National Committee chairwoman got a real mess on her. Democrats are calling for Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz (D-FL) to resign.

The folks over at the Martin O'Malley campaign vow mutiny against the Democratic National Committee chairwoman. There's a rift between the Democrats and it involves limited debates and lack of interest of the second tiers candidates. The Democrats believe the contest is between Hillary Clinton and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT). 

Rather they believe the DNC is in the tank for Clinton.

Martin O'Malley, Jim Webb and Lincoln Chafee are upset that the junk food media ignored them.

The DNC's vice chair Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) and DNC chairwoman Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz (D-FL) are feuding behind the scenes.

Gabbard is a former Iraqi war veteran who was elected in 2013. She is a conservative Democrat. She is one of 32 members in Congress under 40 years old.

Gabbard was barred from the first debate and it sparked a rift. Wasserman-Schultz is being accused playing favors and some are calling for her to be fired out the cannon. 

R.T. Rybak wants the bid. The former mayor of Minneapolis is pissed that Wasserman-Schultz is so gaga for Hillary Clinton, she literally ignores the rest of them. He believes that her support for Clinton overshadows the other candidates.
Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) is putting the party's business on wax. Gabbard's being banned from the debate sparked a war within the party. Gabbard accuses Wasserman-Schultz of being inept. 
The New York Times reported that President Barack Obama wanted him as the DNC chair. That was overruled by the party supporters. Wasserman-Schultz was pissed at the president. She and Gabbard threatened to not support the president during the Six Party's Iranian deal. 

On the conservative Craigslist today was this big splash.



Reince Priebus and Debbie Wasserman-Schultz are really inept leaders. They can't control the situation within their party. The extreme wings of both parties are purging the middle out.

The Republicans are dealing with their own crisis in Congress. The abrupt resignation of Rep. John Boehner (R-OH) as a House Speaker caused a real mess over in the House. Republicans are jockeying for the position to be the Speaker.

They're fighting one another over this position as well.

And to make matters worse, the Republicans running are demanding more airtime for the next debates. 

Sunday, March 07, 2010

Three Waves--Each One White-capped: A Racist History of Feminism

Ain't I a Woman?  Are we WOC woman or not?

Once again, Julian Real is right on the money on this one.  Again and again, the needs of WOC, working class women, immigrant women, poor women, disabled women are disregarded by the mainstream feminist movement.

Three Waves--Each One White-capped: A Racist History of Feminism

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