Pacific peace activist fights US militarism for love, peace, decolonisation & anti-racism
Channel: Green Left
Date: 01/08/2023

Visiting indigenous Guahan (Guam) peace activist Monaeka Flores told a July 31, 2023 gathering in Sydney hosted by the Catholic Peace and Justice Office that she was motivated to stand up against United States militarism and the expanding bases on her Pacific island nation was love of her people, peace, decolonisation and anti-racism. She spoke alongside another indigenous Pacific peace activist from Okinawa, Shinako Oyakawa. 
Flores recounted that when Guahan was recently hit by a powerful typhoon, her community "which was already at ground zero of a climate crisis that the US military has helped create" had to struggle to carry out relief efforts because of the monopolisation of resources by the US military. 
To add insult to injury, the Australian people, like those of Guahan and Okinawa are also being asked to foot the huge bill for this power projection of the "US empire", she added. 
Video by Peter Boyle for Green Left.