Stop Bombing Pohakuloa! Where’s the Outrage?
May 1, 2013
Stop Bombing Pohakuloa! Where’s the Outrage? According to military documents up to 14.8 million live rounds are fired annually at the 133,000-acre Pohakuloa Training Area (PTA), the largest military...
Unexploded bomb found near Puʻunene School
May 1, 2013
The AP reported that an unexploded bomb, most likely from World War II, was found in a sugar cane field near Puʻunene School on Maui: The Maui News reports that the aerial bomb was discovered by an...
Military junk pulled from Kalaeloa pond raises fresh concerns
February 4, 2013
COURTESY JOHN BOND Ordy Pond, off Tripoli Road near Coral Sea Road on the former Barbers Point Naval Air Station, is shown in a photo taken with former City Councilman Tom Berg in August of last...
U.S. ship smashes into Philippines reef as the Navy plans to scrap another ship damaged in a similar accident in Hawaiʻi
January 23, 2013
A photo released on Jan. 20, 2013 by the Armed Forces of the Philippines Western Command (AFP-WESCOM) shows the US Navy ship USS Guardian remaining stuck in the vicinity of the Tubbataha Reef, western...
Army seeks regulatory exemption for DU in Hawaiʻi as Hawaiʻi Doctors find uranium in people’s urine
December 26, 2012
Hawaiʻi island peace activists reported that elevated levels of uranium have been found in residents’ urine and demanded that the State of Hawaiʻi Department of Health take more aggressive measures...
Military cyberwarfare testing off Kauai might jam up civilian GPS across the Hawaiian islands
September 5, 2012
The Honolulu Star Advertiser reports that the U.S. military has been conducting classfied, i.e. secret, tests that could disrupt civilian GPS systems – “Military testing off Kauai might muck...
Protest the environmental and cultural destruction on Jeju Island! Vigil at the South Korean Consulate in Honolulu
September 4, 2012
September 6, 20125:30 pmto6:30 pmProtest the environmental and cultural destruction on Jeju Island. No Naval Base! In solidarity with the Gangjeong villagers in the movement to protect their island from...
Watada lecture pre-event: “Environmental and Economic Impacts of Militarization in Hawaiʻi”
September 4, 2012
September 7, 20126:30 pmto8:00 pm “Environmental and Economic Impacts of Militarization in Hawaiʻi” On September 7 from 6:30-8:00 in the Crossroads Sanctuary there will be a panel moderated...
World Conservation Congress convenes in Jeju amid protests, deportations, and repression, while the state of Hawaiʻi aims to host the event in 2016
September 4, 2012
There has been a raging political struggle between the villagers of Gangjeong village on Jeju Island, South Korea and the Korean government over the construction of a naval base that is destroying pristine...
Toxic “Rainbow” across the Pacific: New Information Revealed About Agent Orange
August 10, 2012
Today is the 67th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of Nagasaki. Rebecca Solnit wrote on Facebook: In 1995 a woman who survived the bombing of Nagasaki (67 years ago today) came to San Francisco...
