On Earth Day, April 22, Famoksaiyan and Women for Genuine Security held a press conference and action at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Earth Day commemoration in protest of the military expansion in Guahan/Guam and the Mariana Islands. The action was also in solidarity with the massive demonstrations in Okinawa protesting U.S. military bases. Check… Read more »
Monthly Archives: April 2010
Hawai’i vigil in solidarity with Okinawa
Photos: Jamie Oshiro, Hawai’i Okinawa Alliance Yesterday, in solidarity with the 90,000+ Okinawans who rallied against U.S. military bases in Okinawa, the Hawai’i-Okinawa Alliance (HOA), the American Friends Service Committee – Hawai’i and DMZ-Hawai’i / Aloha ‘Aina organized a vigil in front of the Japanese Consulate in Honolulu. Approximately 40 people held signs and candles… Read more »
National Guard member convicted of electronic enticement of a child
This is the conclusion of the child enticement case by a Hawaii National Guardsmen. >><< http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/Global/story.asp?S=12378617 Fairness of mandatory prison term for child enticement questioned Posted: Apr 26, 2010 12:32 PM Updated: Apr 26, 2010 6:40 PM By Minna Sugimoto – bio | email HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) – Family and friends of a Hawaii Air National… Read more »
Hypersonic glider test fails over the Pacific
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/04/26/national/a143633D74.DTL US defense agency’s hypersonic glider test fails Monday, April 26, 2010 (04-26) 14:36 PDT LOS ANGELES (AP) — A U.S. defense agency says contact with an experimental hypersonic glider was lost after it launched from California’s Vandenberg Air Force Base last week. The Falcon Hypersonic Technology Vehicle-2 was launched atop a booster rocket on… Read more »
Insular Empire “Red Pill Tour”
Vanessa Warheit, director of the film Insular Empire: America in the Mariana Islands just posted a new entry about her visit to Hawai’i and what she has dubbed the “Red Pill Tour”, a reference to the scene in The Matrix when Neo takes the red pill that awakens him to the violent and oppressive reality… Read more »
Chicago lawmakers call for military to stop crime
http://www.kitv.com/news/23261822/detail.html Lawmakers: Military May Stop Chicago Crime Chicago Has Had 113 Homicide Victims This Year POSTED: 3:46 pm HST April 25, 2010 CHICAGO — Two Illinois lawmakers say violence has become so rampant in Chicago that the National Guard must be called in to help. Chicago Democratic Reps. John Fritchey and LaShawn Ford made a… Read more »
“if we want real socialism for actual persons, we should all join the US military”
A navy veteran turned peace activist once told me that the biggest socialist economy in the world is the U.S. military. It took me aback at first, but when you think about it. The military is a socialized system. It’s ironic that the prevailing current of U.S. militarism is anti-communist. >><< http://www.counterpunch.org/ketcham04222010.html April 22, 2010… Read more »
NY Times coverage of Okinawa anti-base protest
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/26/world/asia/26okinawa.html?hp 90,000 Protest U.S. Base on Okinawa Kyodo News, via Associated Press Protesters packed an athletic field in the town of Yomitanson in Okinawa, Japan, to demand that a U.S. Marine base be moved. By MARTIN FACKLER Published: April 25, 2010 TOKYO — More than 90,000 Okinawans rallied Sunday to oppose the relocation of an… Read more »
One hundred thousand rally against U.S. military bases in Okinawa
According to reports from Okinawan and Japanese sources, today (yesterday, in Japan) approximately 95,000 people attended a mass rally in Tomitan to oppose the U.S. military bases in Okinawa. Several English language news stories are included below. They report the numbers as 90,000, but there were thousands more who were unable to make it to… Read more »
Japan Prime Minister: new U.S. airbase in Okinawa “must never happen”
http://ph.news.yahoo.com/afp/20100424/tap-japan-us-military-diplomacy-d1078a1_1.html Japan PM rules out 2006 deal on US base on eve of rally – Sunday, April 25 TOKYO (AFP) – – Japan’s premier ruled out a plan for a new US airbase on Okinawa island Saturday, on the eve of a mass rally against the planned facility, in a row that has soured ties… Read more »
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