Monthly Archives: November 2008

Anti-Bases Coalition Pushes U.S. Military Base out of Ecuador

Anti-Bases Coalition Pushes U.S. Military Base out of Ecuador By Helga Serrano November 5, 2008 Translated from: Coalición No Bases logra la salida de Base Militar de EEUU de Ecuador Translated by: Annette Ramos Note: The following is Helga Serrano’s report about the case of Ecuador presented at the Second Encounter for the Demilitarization of… Read more »

Full Moon Over Okinawa

http://www.counterpunch.org/lummis11042008.html November 4, 2008 Nuchi du Takara Full Moon Over Okinawa By DOUG LUMMIS The Tenth Annual Okinawa Full Moon Festival will be held at Sedake Beach, northern Okinawa, November 8 and 9.  This is a festival of traditional, folk, and rock music in protest of – or better, in celebration of the opposition to… Read more »

The Militarization of the University of Hawai’i continues

The University of Hawai’i recently launched a Department of Homeland Security research center, intensifying the militarization of the university.

Superferrry builder lands a big military contract

The Austal corporation, builder of the two Hawaii Superferry ships has just won a $1.6 billion Joint High Speed Vessel contract from the U.S. Department of Defense to build up to ten similarly designed transport ships.  Joan Conrow has several interesting posts on this on her blog.  The nasty comments from some indicate that the… Read more »

Tell it to the Whales

The Los Angeles Times printed this thoughtful and informative editorial that criticized the recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling striking down restrictions imposed by a Federal judge on the Navy’s use of sonar in training exercises in California waters. Tell it to the whales The Supreme Court was wrong to eliminate some of the Navy’s precautions… Read more »

Call to Stop the Bombing of Pohakuloa

Jim Albertini of Malu ‘Aina issued the following statement calling on the military to honor the Hawai’i County Council resolution for a moratorium on live fire training at Pohakuloa, a site contaminated with depleted uranium. A CITIZEN CALL TO ACTION The military officially confirmed radiation contamination from weapons training at The Pohakuloa Training Area (PTA)… Read more »

Women Building Genuine Security

This is an excellent description of the International Women’s Network Against Militarism by Gwyn Kirk, one of the founding members. http://www.feministafrica.org/uploads/File/Issue%2010/profile.pdf Building Genuine Security: The International Women’s Network Against Militarism Gwyn Kirk We are very pleased to have the following description of our Network included in this issue of Feminist Africa because of our concern… Read more »

Fire ruins special forces mini submarine

A six-hour blaze damaged a special-warfare minisub Sunday Navy to start probe of sub fire By Gregg K. Kakesako POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Nov 11, 2008 The Navy will begin investigating today a battery fire that damaged the nation’s only special-warfare minisub, a costly and problem-plagued stealth boat that was getting a recharge at Pearl… Read more »