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Insular Areas Climate Change Act: Strengthen Territories’ Response to Climate Disasters and Protect the Most Vulnerable FURIA, Inc. Juan Declet-Barreto, Climate Vulnerability Social Scientist | May 10, 2021, 6:00 am EDT Islands and their people are more vulnerable to climate impacts than continental jurisdictions. They are more unprotected from climate ravages that are becoming more ferocious. Their vulnerability is related to climate change, but more directly to the effect of human decisions. For this reason it is urgent tha...

HAGÅTÑA (The Guam Daily Post) — A series of U.S. Supreme Court decisions that laid the groundwork for territorial-federal relations continues to be criticized as a racist relic of America’s history. On Wednesday, Guam Vice Speaker Tina Muna-Barnes held a public hearing on Resolution 56-36, a bipartisan measure she authored that supports a U.S. congressional effort to publicly reject the decisions known as the Insular Cases. U.S. Rep. Raul Grijalva, a Democrat from Arizona who introduced the House resolution, testified in a prerecorded video that he views the cases as “rac...

Resolution rejecting U.S. Supreme Court Insular Cases heard Joe Taitano II A hearing was held Wednesday for Resolution 56, introduced by Vice Speaker Tina Muña Barnes, which would throw in support for a resolution in the U.S. House of Representatives that calls for the rejection of the “Insular Cases.” The cases are race-based U.S. Supreme Court rulings from the early 1900s that have been used to deny equal rights to residents of the territories. They state that constitutional protections and political equality may not apply to the U.S. territories, which are home to “alien races�...

Lawmakers can't decide on the best path to bring the territory into the Union, and it's not even clear that Puerto Ricans want what Congress is offering.

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