by Dr. Vid Raatior | Mar 6, 2013 | Blog, Featured Article, Politics, Social Justice
I write the following open letter to all the newly elected leaders who will represent my region of the Northwest (Pattiw, Pafeng, and Namonweito) in the Chuuk State Senate, House of Representatives, and the FSM Congress. I am very optimistic that the people will have...
by Dr. Vid Raatior | Mar 3, 2013 | Blog, Featured Article, Politics, Social Justice
Give a man a spam, and you’ll feed him for a day. Vote a man to scam, and you’ve ruined us for a lifetime. That’s my take on the popular saying, “Give a man a fish, and you’ll feed him for a day; teach a man to fish, and you’ve fed him for a...
by Dr. Vid Raatior | Feb 1, 2012 | Blog, Social Justice
The article entitled, “The Case for Justice for Micronesians in Hawaii” by Victor Geminiani, published in today’s issue of the Honolulu Civil Beat is worth reading. The Executive Director of the Hawaii Appleseed Center for Law and Economic Justice...
by Dr. Vid Raatior | Jan 7, 2012 | Blog, Education, Featured Article, Social Justice
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...
by Dr. Vid Raatior | Jan 1, 2012 | Blog, Featured Article, Politics, Social Justice
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...
by Dr. Vid Raatior | Oct 26, 2011 | Blog, Featured Article, Politics, Social Justice
Senator Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii) is exercising racial discrimination against the legal immigrants from the Pacific island nations of Micronesia, Palau, and the Marshall Islands. Ironically, Senator Inouye claims on his vimeo site to have been responsible for breaking...
