Current Initiatives
Hita Litekyan’s “Follow the Water” film pitch wins If/Then Shorts and The Redford Center’s Special Jury Selection Category at Mountain Film Festival
"Follow the Water" was honored with a Special Jury Selection in the 2024 Nature Connection Pitch at the Mountain Film Festival in Telluride, CO, this May.
This recognition includes funding that will support the production of Follow the Water, a 25-minute documentary short that explores Indigenous land rights, water security, historical contamination, and contemporary community organizing in the U.S. territories of Guam (Guåhan) and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI).
The documentary will be told from a multi-generational Indigenous perspective, focusing on frontline organizers and land defenders advocating for the protection and return of Litekyan, their ancestral land, which has been proposed as a buffer zone for a U.S. Marine Live Fire Training Range Complex.
Letter Campaign: Protect Ritidian and Justice for the Ritidian Families
https://actionnetwork.org/letters/protect-ritidian-and-justice-for-the-ritidian-families?source=direct_link&
CALL FOR ARTISTS - Ta Na’i Animu | WorkForms
https://forms.monday.com/forms/36a711880203166b3078fb6144e53edd?r=use1
Land Ownership in Guam: Post-war Pillaging
https://www.guampedia.com/land-ownership-on-guam/
Petition: Justice for the Ritidian Families
https://www.change.org/p/justice-for-the-litekyan-families-oppose-military-s-plan-to-use-litekyan-for-firing-range?recruiter=1279904273&recruited_by_id=469af1b0-49f8-11ed-a0ad-8b955ea40361&utm_source=share_petition&utm_campaign=share_petition&utm_term=sha
Not too Late to Stop Firing Range
https://www.guampdn.com/opinion/opinion-not-too-late-to-change-firing-range-site/article_17dfd138-297c-5120-b740-716c3e55926d.html
Legislative Briefing on Concerns of Ritidian Landowners
https://senatorterlaje.com/original-landowners-and-agencies-voice-concerns-about-live-fire-at-ritidian/
Generations of protest: Former Ritidian landowners want their land back
https://senatorterlaje.com/original-landowners-and-agencies-voice-concerns-about-live-fire-at-ritidian/
Public Law 23-25: Ritidian Taken by Force, Deceit, and Theft
https://www.guamlegislature.com/Public_Laws_23rd/P.L.%2023-25%20(SB%2072%20(LS)).pdf