The Chuuk Reform Movement’s online petition on change.org, which had garnered over 1,000 signers in 2014, has been re-opened, updated in 2017 to re-engage Chuukese citizens against the Chuuk Political Status Commission (CPSC), Governor Johnson Elimo and members of the Chuuk State Legislatures who are planning to hold a referendum on July 4, 2018. While the online version remains active, we are now launching a printed version to be distributed among our Chuukese people abroad and at home. Both petitions will be presented to every member of the Chuuk State Legislatures and Governor Johnson Elimo to show our opposition to the Chuuk independence movement.
It is crucial that all Chuukese citizens and our US-born Chuukese youth sign this printed petition. We believe that the Chuuk secession will negatively impact all of us. Given the recent Final Report and the disclosure of the timeline of the Chuuk secession, it is very clear now that the Chuuk Political Status Commission failed to adequately study the negative impact on Chuukese citizens living in the United States protected by the FSM Compact of Free Association.
It is highly likely that Chuukese parents may be deported from the US once their FSM passport is invalidated if Chuuk State secedes from the FSM. Without guarantee of a Compact for the planned Republic of Chuuk, US-born Chuukese children may be separated from their Chuukese parents.
We are also concerned that the July 4, 2018 referendum will be rigged to guarantee passage of the Chuuk independence. Political leaders have cheated before on these elections so we want the petitions to serve as additional avenues for our leaders to hear the voices of the Chuukese citizens and their children. We also want the petitions to include the voice of our US-born Chuukese youth who cannot vote in the March elections by virtue of their US citizenship.
Please print as many of these forms as you can or email me (vid@chuukstate.org) your address and I’ll send you printed copies of the petition to get people to sign. Let’s only have Chuukese people to sign this petition since we’re addressing it to our own governor and representatives / senators in Chuuk State. The signed forms can be mailed to the new Chuuk Reform Movement’s mailbox in Chuuk found on the form or to Vid Raatior at 2713 Subec Lane, Soquel, CA 95073.
Click here to Download Petition Form.
Below is the full text of the Petition and the Chuukese translation:
Citizen Petition Against Chuuk Secession & Independence
We, the undersigned, humbly request our representatives in the Chuuk State Legislature and our Honorable Governor Johnson Elimo, to stop the referendum on Chuuk secession and independence, based on the fact that the Chuuk Political Status Commission failed in its basic duties to thoroughly study all options for Chuuk financial sustainability beyond 2023 and the negative impacts on Chuukese citizens and our children living in the United States protected by the FSM Compact of Free Association.
Chuukese Translation: Kich, ekkei sia mak itach asan, sia mochen tingor non anononen ach suffon me mennen ngeni nouch kewe sia finirenong non ewe Chuuk Anepwung tori nouch Amafel Kepina Johnson Elimo, pwun oupwe feri met esap fisita ei ammokutun an Chuuk epwe towu seni FSM pokiten ewe Chuuk Political Status Commission ese foriochu wiser ne kutta met Chuuk epwe epinasa ngeni ewe osukosuken moni pekinon ewe ier 2023 nge esap ousukusuker ekkewe chon Chuuk me nouch kewe re nom Merika fan pechokunen ewe FSM Compact of Free Association.
Dr. Vid Raatior
Dr. Vid Raatior is a proud Chuukese parent, educator, citizen blogger, and social entrepreneur living in the US.
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Yeah DA hell with this why didn’t anybodymake announce of this shows how not only how our economy on chuuck bad but how we’re not organized how about DA people where is there votes in this the governor or who ever should not just decide on what DA hell but what about the people’s vote we vote for you and now you’re in that place now you gonna shut the people’s out wow big wow
I am a mother of 5 children who are born as Us citizen . I am aware of this so called “Imuno seni FSM” . How can my children live without me. This is ridiculous and out of hand. I will 100% vote No!
Epwe met? Ekkena nouwis re mwoteni ekkena neni tekia ra monukano pun re mwot asan pun nour aramas mi attong re wareta pun ren ar repwe anisi, aramasen chuuk ika? Iwe iwe … Seni chok om tufij owa monukano noumi aramas
I am leaving this comment simply to say this…..i strongly dislike the idea..that elected officials know better than the people who elected them…i don’t like that idea at all…further more i wanted to make known to the public and most especially to the commission members…that we elected you to be our voice…and not the other way around…i wonder if any of you..took the time to hear the overwhelming voice of the Chuukese people…”WE DON’T WANT THIS..WE DON’T!!”..not because we don’t like the idea..but because the idea presented is so filled with questions and uncertainties..that it just doesn’t make sense for us to accept it…and to say that we should not question your idea..and that we should accept it..simply because you say so..is in one word…CRAZY…it is…we are proud..educated..and loving citizens of our island..and we ask that you give us the benefit of the doubt..because we do know what is best for our island..and this is not it…PLEASE HEAR OUR VOICE AND STOP FORCING YOURS UPON US….thank you
hell no , people of chuuk vote no
Chuuk u still need time before u take part in this please people