Call from Malu ‘Aina: Time to Cancel the Army’s Lease at Pohakuloa over Radiation Contamination 1. The Army repeatedly denied the use of Depleted Uranium (DU) in Hawaii. 2. Now it has been confirmed that in the 1960s the U.S. Army used the Pohakuloa Training Area for firing spotting rounds containing DU for the Davy… Read more »
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NRC to Army: DU monitoring plan won’t work
http://bigislandweekly.com/articles/2010/04/28/read/news/news02.txt NRC to Army: DU monitoring plan won’t work By Alan D. McNarie Wednesday, April 28, 2010 12:04 PM HST The U.S. Army’s plan to monitor the air over Pohakuloa Training Area for depleted uranium has drawn sharp criticism from some Native Hawaiians, environmentalists, activists and independent experts. Now the Army has gotten an admonishment… Read more »
Guam Senator Cruz demands demands radiation tests for Apra harbor
Senator B.J. Cruz from Guam is demanding that the Environmental Protection Agency require the U.S. military to test for radiation contamination be conducted in Apra Harbor before dredging and dumping of the sediment is approved. He is right to demand these studies. It is widely known that U.S. navy ships have leaked radioactive water in… Read more »
Abolition: The Only Path to Nuclear Security
http://www.truthout.org/abolition-the-only-path-nuclear-security58414 Abolition: The Only Path to Nuclear Security Thursday 08 April 2010 by: Dr. Joseph Gerson, t r u t h o u t | Report (Image: Jared Rodriguez / t r u t h o u t; Adapted: Br3nda, Eric M Martin) In Prague, President Obama signed the modest START 1 Follow On Treaty,… Read more »
European day of protest against nuclear weapons
Press release – www.bombspotting.org <http://www.bombspotting.org> Contact: Hans Lammerant – 0479/68 24 43 Inez Louwagie – 0498/68 29 40 Now or never: get rid of nuclear weapons. 3 April: Bombspotting Kleine Brogel Today, one month before NPT Review Conference, Vredesactie is organising a Bombspotting action on the military base at Kleine Brogel, protesting the nuclear weapons… Read more »
U.S. commander reveals true purpose of troops in Okinawa is to remove N. Korea’s nukes
http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/20100401p2a00m0na016000c.html April 1, 2010 U.S. commander reveals true purpose of troops in Okinawa is to remove N. Korea’s nukes The commander of U.S. Marine Corps troops in Asia has recently revealed to Japanese defense officials that the true purpose of stationing Marines in Okinawa is to remove North Korea of its nuclear weapons if its… Read more »
Disarm Now! For Peace & Human Needs – March and Rally, NYC
International Day of Action – Sunday, May 2 4 February 2010 Join people from around the world for an afternoon of action! 2:00 PM – Rally near Times Square (exact location to be announced) 3:30 PM – March across 42nd Street to the United Nations 4:00 – 5:30 PM – International Peace & Music Festival… Read more »
Jeju Island Farmers Continue to Resist Navy Base
For more photos, please see here: http://nobasestorieskorea.blogspot.com/2010/03/gangjeong-is-strong-and.html http://space4peace.blogspot.com/2010/03/jeju-island-farmers-continue-to-resist.html Monday, March 08, 2010 JEJU ISLAND FARMERS CONTINUE TO RESIST NAVY BASE It has been raining on and off for more than a month in the Gangjeong village. Still the lights in the tents have never been put out in the nights. About 4-5 people in shifts… Read more »
More on Nuclear Survivors Remembrance Day
http://mvguam.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=11167:-nuclear-survivors-remembrance-day-&catid=36:bens-pen&Itemid=67 Nuclear Survivors Remembrance Day Tuesday, 02 March 2010 03:26 by Sen. Ben Pangelinan March 1, 2010 marks the 56th year of the explosion of the most devastating instrument of mass destruction of its time and for many decades to come, the nuclear bomb, Code named “Bravo” on the peoples of the Pacific. It was… Read more »
Nuclear survivors worry as U.S. presses for resettlement
http://www.mvariety.com/n-test-affected-islanders-worry-as-us-presses-for-resettlement.php N-test affected islanders worry as US presses for resettlement Tuesday, 02 March 2010 00:00 By Giff Johnson – For Variety MAJURO — Fifty-six years after an American hydrogen bomb blast in the Pacific exposed hundreds of people to radioactive fallout, the U.S. Congress is pressing islanders to return home by next year. March 1… Read more »
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