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		<title>My Beloved Nation Turns 33!!!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2012 17:01:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[May 10, 2012 commemorates the 33rd anniversary of the birth of my beloved nation of the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM). In a special letter to citizens and friends of the FSM, Mr. James A. Naich, who represented the Northwest Region in the last two FSM Constitutional Conventions and currently serves as the Deputy Chief [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chuuk Education Reform Goals</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Mar 2012 10:17:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;If you&#8217;re not part of the solution, you&#8217;re part of the problem&#8221; &#8211; Charles Rosner. We the people of Chuuk are in dire need of a major attitudinal change with regards to educational reform. We need a paradigm shift from thinking that educational reform is their problem (aruchok) to ours (achupok). For so long now [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Valuing our Chuukese-ness</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2012 10:37:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week I co-facilitated a Leadership Institute for the senior leadership in the Chuuk State Department of Education. While I learned a lot from my co-facilitators Fr. Arthur Leger, SJ, Ph.D., and Mr. Destin Penland,  I left Chuuk feeling like I gained much more than I gave the participants. I was very inspired by the  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Justice for Micronesians</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 21:28:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The article entitled, &#8220;The Case for Justice for Micronesians in Hawaii&#8221; by Victor Geminiani, published in today&#8217;s issue of the Honolulu Civil Beat is worth reading. The Executive Director of the Hawaii Appleseed Center for Law and Economic Justice brings much needed light on the discrimination that continues in the government of Hawaii against legal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cuthbert Connects Weipat</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:54:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Bill Hagen In January 2012 a fully functional, internet connected, computer lab was set up at WeiPat High school on the island of Onoun in the Namonweito Atoll of Chuuk State, FSM. In a partnership between The Cuthbert Project and Guam Community College, funded by the Department of the Interior this project labeled “WeiPat [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ambassador Asterio Takesy</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 11:08:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Congratulations to Mr. Asterio R. Takesy from the outer island of Onoun who recently presented his credentials to President Barrack Obama at the Oval Office as the new Ambassador of the Federated States of Micronesia to the United States. Affectionately known as Aste, Ambassador Takesy joins another outer islander Mr. James Naich from Pollap [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Help for Weipat High School</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 18:22:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My alma mater, Weipat High School, located on the remote outer island of Onoun in Chuuk State officially made one giant virtual leap toward bridging the huge digital divide. They are now hooked up to the internet via a solar powered satellite dish thanks to Deacon Bill Hagen and a team from his Guam-based Cuthbert [...]]]></description>
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		<title>To Hell with Good Intentions</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2012 11:22:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was touched today by the following speech by social critic and philosopher, the late Monsignor Ivan Illich. In the speech, which he delivered in 1968 to the Conference on InterAmerican Student Projects (CIASP), he courageously challenged the American youth doing volunteer services in Cuernavaca, Mexico, to guard against paternalism. His words resonated with me on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Northwest funding&#8230;same old</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 00:39:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[FSM Congress has recently appropriated funds (Public Law No. 17-30 on December 29, 2011) to each of the Election Districts in Chuuk. The Northwest Election District #5 (Pafeng, Namonweito, and Pattiw) received a total of $200,000 for what appears to be an exact replica of the last appropriations. Once again, of that amount only $9,000 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Case for Justice for Micronesians in Hawaii</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Dec 2011 15:45:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Hawai&#8217;i Appleseed Center for Law and Economic Justice has just released a report entitled, &#8220;Broken Promises, Shattered Lives: The Case for Justice for Micronesians in Hawai&#8217;i,&#8221; which should be read by anyone who wants to understand the historical background,  language, cultural, social barriers facing the Micronesians who have legally migrated to the Hawaiian islands [...]]]></description>
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