Peace in the Pacific Stop missile testing! US plans test missile launch from California to the Marshall Islands on Sept 21, World Peace Day Route of Sept 21 ICBM test launch Join a discussion of the militarization of the Pacific with guest speaker MacGregor Eddy of the Global Network against Weapons and Nuclear Power Space,… Read more »
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Peace Prizes for War Presidents, Missile Tests on Day of Peace
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/09/06-0 Published on Tuesday, September 6, 2011 by CommonDreams.org Peace Prizes for War Presidents, Missile Tests on Day of Peace Escalation of US offensive missile strategy — launching an ICBM Missile across the Pacific on World Peace Day by Ann Wright The U.S. missile ‘defense” system is simply not defensive. It is offensive in every… Read more »
Connecting the Aegis dots between Jeju, Okinawa, Guam, Hawai’i
Koohan Paik, co-author of the Superferry Chronicles and member of the Kaua’i Alliance for Peace and Social Justice wrote an excellent op ed in the Garden Island newspaper connecting the dots between the military expansion at the Pacific Missile Range Facility on Kaua’i, the struggle to stop a naval base in Jeju, South Korea, and… Read more »
Message from the International Women’s Network Against Militarism to the peoples movement for No Naval Base on Jeju!
Message from the International Women’s Network Against Militarism to the peoples movement for No Naval Base on Jeju! September 1, 2011 Dear friends in the struggle against US military expansion at Jeju Island We women from Okinawa, mainland Japan, the Philippines, Marshall Islands, Guam, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Australia and west-coast USA send our greetings in… Read more »
Will Jeju become another ‘Pearl Harbor’?
There have been several articles about Jeju referencing the cost of militarization and war to Hawai’i and Ke Awalau o Pu’uloa (Pearl Harbor). One letter to the editor published in the Jeju Weekly states: An American Jeju? Sunday, August 14, 2011, 03:15:11 To the editor, Jeju Island, fondly referred to as “Korea’s Hawaii,” has more… Read more »
Kulani prison may reopen
The Hawaii Tribune Herald reports that the state is considering reopening the Kulani prison, which was closed and converted into a military school. Advocates of prison reform have called for the reopening of Kulani, which was once the most successful sex offender treatment program in Hawai’i: Closed nearly two years ago to save money, Hawaii… Read more »
Army to test underwater robots for removal of unexploded ordnance off Waiʻanae
The Honolulu Star Advertiser reports that Army demonstrated a remote-controlled underwater robot it will test for possible use to remove unexploded munitions off the Waiʻanae coast at a location known as “ordnance reef”. The Army said it will begin a 21-day trial run Monday of a remote-controlled submersible designed to remove discarded military munitions from… Read more »
Man with Marine Base address arrested for alleged sex assault of woman in Waikiki
The Honolulu Star Advertiser reports “Officers arrested a 23-year-old man of an address at Marine Corps Base Hawaii in Kaneohe at 2:11 a.m. Friday” for allegedly sexually assaulting a 20-year old woman in Waikiki on June 23. The man arrested and booked on suspicion of first-degree sexual assault and kidnapping was one of two… Read more »
Pimping Pohakuloa
The Hawaii Tribune Herald reports that Governor Abercrombie, once a black-beret-wearing campus radical, is offering up virgin areas of Hawaiʻi to service the military: Abercrombie floated the possibility of building public-private housing in West Hawaii for military families who will relocate from Okinawa when the Marine base there moves sometime in the next few years…. Read more »
Kulani saved? Possible win for environmental, peace and justice advocates!
CORRECTION: I was originally informed that the resolution passed by the Hawai’i State Senate effectively reversed the reset aside of Kulani Prison to the Hawaii National Guard Youth ChalleNGe program. However, I was informed by another source that the senate vote alone may not have been sufficient to overturn the executive order by itself. We’re… Read more »
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