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This episode of Fanachu! featuring a panel of Chamoru women who have grown up in the US diaspora, away from the Mariana Islands, and share their experiences in terms of language, culture and identity. The panel featured Clarissa Mendiola, Pi Palomo, Lia Gogue and Lyn Aflague Arroyo. 

This episode premiered live on Facebook on September 23, 2020 and was hosted by Michael Lujan Bevacqua.

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This Fino' Chamoru episode from October 1, 2020 featured Siñot Joey Franquez and Siñot Ray Barcinas as guests. Episode was hosted by Michael Lujan Bevacqua and livestreamed on Facebook. 

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Puerto Rican activist Karina Pacheco provided updates on movements for decolonization and independence in Puerto Rico, for this October 7, 2020 episode of Fanachu! Hosted by Michael Lujan Bevacqua. 

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This episode of Fanachu! featured Master of Chamoru Performance Vince Reyes along with his students in his University of Guam course "Expressions of Chamoru Music and Dance." Students who participated included: Fu'una Sanz, Fafana'gue Ray Lujan, Chauntae Quichocho, Vicky Mesa and Vicente Santiago. 

The episode premiered live on Facebook on October 14, 2020 and was hosted by Michael Lujan Bevacqua. 

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This episode of Fanachu! featured a conversation among Chamoru feminists and scholar activists in the diaspora. Guests are Lyn Aflague Arroyo, Joannie LG Parnell and Emily McMath and the conversation is hosted by Professor Antoniette Charfauros McDaniel. 

This episode originally aired live on Facebook on October 20, 2020. 

Painting featured in flyer comes from Gisela McDaniel who is the daughter of Antoinette who hosted the episode. 

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For this third episode of Mata'pang's Canoe Club, Fanachu Godfather Dr. Manny Cruz talks to activist Czeska Cabuhat about abolition, societal reform and social justice in a local context. 

Check out the links below to learn more: 
https://linktr.ee/forchoice 
https://www.asiansolidaritycollective.org/

Matå'pang's Canoe Club episodes are exclusively available for Fanachu! Patrons as soon as they are uploaded. Starting this month, they will be made available three months after being premiered for the general listening audience. 

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This episode of Fanachu! was a special interview with Jon Mitchell the author of the book "Poisoning the Pacific: The US Military's Secret Dumping of Plutonium, Chemical Weapons, and Agent Orange" published in 2020.

In his book Mitchell discusses the history of nuclear power in Japan, Agent Orange contamination and the nuclear testing in the Marshall Islands, as some of the sites where the US military and government have engaged in coverups to hide the true impacts on peoples across the Asia Pacific region, Chamorus included.

This episode aired live on Facebook on November 4, 2020 and was hosted by Michael Lujan Bevacqua.

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In response to criticism that certain styles of contemporary Chamoru dance are stolen or appropriated from Polynesian dances, a group of cultural practitioners gathered for this episode of Fanachu! to discuss some of the politics of cultural dance in the context of Chamoru history. 

Panelists for this episode included: Master of Chamoru Dance Vince Reyes (Inetnon Gefpago), Fafana'gue Ray Lujan (Guma Nina'en Åcho' Latte), Ulukoa (Kīawekūpono O Ka Ua and who also studied under Master of Chamoru Dance Frank Rabon), Rich Duenas (co-director Irensia Dance Troupe) and Pim Limtiaco (Inetnon Gefpago)

Ed "Pulan Speaks" Leon Guerrero was host was this episode which aired on November 10, 2020 live on Facebook. 

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This episode of Fanachu! Is a Fino’ Chamoru episode featuring musician, painter and carver Rich Mangloña from the gåtbo na islan Luta.

Episode premiered live on Facebook and Youtube on June 1, 2022 and was hosted by Michael Lujan Bevacqua. 

Episode was audio engineered by Curtis J. Jewell and uses music from Jonah Hånom and his performance at the 2021 Na'lå'la' Songs of Freedom Vol 5 concert. 

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For this episode of Fanachu! Ed Alvarez joined as guest to answer questions and dispel some myths about  decolonization. Decolonization is about changing Guam's political status to something built on being genuinely self-governing, within the US, freely associated with it or independent from it. Ed is the former Executive Director for the Commission on Decolonization under the Calvo Administration. 

This episode originally aired live on Facebook on December 2, 2020 and was hosted by Michael Lujan Bevacqua

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