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Okinawans surround Futenma Air Base with a 13 km ‘Human Chain’; solidarity demo in Honolulu

Yesterday, tens of thousands of Okinawans surrounded the Futenma Air Base with a Human Chain 13 kilometers long calling for the removal of the U.S. military base. There is video at the Okinawa Times website:

http://www.okinawatimes.co.jp/article/2010-05-16_6534/

On Friday, 5/14/2010, the Hawai’i Okinawa Alliance held a demonstration in front of the Federal Building in Honolulu in solidarity with the Okinawa action.   Also in support were Fight for Guahan, youth from the Rise Up! Roots of Liberation camp, the American Friends Service Committee, DMZ-Hawai’i / Aloha ‘Aina, Hawai’i Puerto Rican scholar/activist Tony Castanha, and professors Mari Matsuda and Vincent Pollard.  Also joining the demonstration were TAKAHASHI Masaki and ICHINOSE Emiko, former Peace Boat comrades who were visiting Hawai’i to write a book about the “hidden” history of occupation, militarism, corporate tourism and genetic engineering in Hawai’i.

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13 Kilometer Human Chain protest May 16 in Okinawa

According to email notices being distributed widely on listserves, Okinawans are planning another massive “human chain” protest at Futenma air base in Ginowan City:

“13 Kilometer Human Chain” Protest Announced For May 16″

A massive 13 kilometer long human chain will protest against the Futenma relocation of the American military base in Okinawa on May 16, 2010, according to Sankei.

Mayor Youichi Iha told a news conference on Tuesday that people in Okinawa Prefecture want the central government to negotiate with the US to remove the bases from Okinawa…

The people of Ginowan and other municipalities accommodating US bases, together with peace activists, plan to surround Futenma Air Station with a human chain on Sunday to demand its removal. The event’s organizers are calling for more than 30,000 participants, as the air field has a circumference of 11.5 kilometers.

Supporters from Guam, the Philippines, Korea, and the US will participating in the island wide march, the international conference, the indigenous people’s meeting, Human Chain at Futemma and visits with local folks opposing the bases.

Japanese and Okinawan journalists are continuing to ask who wants to profit from the base deals and have found opposing interests behind opposing proposals:

The Feud Behind the Scenes: Relocation of the US base on Okinawa, by Abe Takeshi, Okinawa Times:

Construction companies in the land reclamation camp were also bolstering their local offensive, forming a front led by Bechtel, the giant American construction company with close ties to the U.S. government.

Local firms in the pontoon camp who had joined the race for construction contracts as the representatives of “local interests,” were now the first to fall by the wayside. With the choice last December of a shoal reef as the construction site, all possibilities ended for building a runway on floating pontoons. At this point, Ishikawa-jima Harima Heavy Industries and several steel companies in the pontoon camp switched sides to the landing wharf camp.

Meanwhile the Hawai’i Okinawa Alliance is organizing a demonstration in solidarity with the Futenma action May 14 at 4:30 pm at the Federal Building in Honolulu.  Also, groups in Tokyo will encircle the Diet building on May 14.

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Secretary of the Army statements about Makua insults community

So, the Secretary of the Army stops in Hawai’i, makes some remarks about the Army’s need to train in Makua and the military’s respect for Hawaiian culture and the environment.

He did not dare to have a public audience in Hawai’i.   The Army canceled a reception with its hand-picked Native Hawaiian leaders because of the possibility that he would be embarrassed by the opposition to Army activities in Hawai’i.

It is outrageous that the Army is now contemplating using Makua to train unmanned aerial vehicles, the drones that have inflicted so much death and suffering on civilians in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

McHugh says the Army wants to use Makua for “full spectrum training”, presumably to pursue the delusional doctrine of “full spectrum dominance”.

McHugh’s remarks illustrate the arrogance of the military in Hawai’i.  It will only anger the community that has been working peacefully and productively for decades to have the land returned to peaceful and sustainable uses.  As with many of the military occupied sites in Hawai’i, the Army took Makua valley during WWII with a promise to return the land 6 months after the war.   It is long overdue that the military make good on its promise to clean up and return Makua.

Remaking the Army’s image to be greener and more friendly to the natives does not solve their problem.  Their problem stems from the fact that the mission the U.S. military is training for is illegal and immoral – the invasion and occupation of other countries and the destructive means that pacify resistance as effectively as gasoline douses fire.

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Army chief cites value of Makua for training

By Gregg K. Kakesako

POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, May 09, 2010

New Army Secretary John McHugh supports the continued use of Makua Valley for military training, emphasizing that closing it would mean the 11,000 soldiers stationed here would have to spend more time away from their families preparing for wartime deployments.

McHugh toured a portion of the 4,000-acre Makua Military Reservation by helicopter and truck Friday morning with Lt. Gen. Benjamin Mixon, commander of all Army troops in the Pacific and former commanding general of the 25th Infantry Division.

McHugh said retention of Makua allows the Army to offer the “full spectrum of training” here without having to send soldiers to southern California. “I think it’s in the interest of the soldiers, the Army and the United States of America to have these forces continuing to be in position to grow, to be fully trained as they are now to go forward to do the nation’s business.”

He added that the Army should continue “making every effort and expending those resources to protect the culture, the heritage and the very unique environmental challenges that exist here.”

McHugh said 25th Division soldiers now spend several months at the National Training Center at Fort Irwin in the Mojave Desert to complete their training for Iraq or Afghan combat missions.

“Coming out of Hawaii, that’s like another deployment,” McHugh added. “It impacts very significantly on the amount of time soldiers have to recover and spend with their families.”

Mixon said the Army plans an environmental study on converting the valley to “a non-live-fire training range” that would focus on programs dealing with the use of drones, helicopter laser and convoy operations and ways to defuse roadside and homemade bombs.

Since 2001 Earthjustice and Malama Makua, a Leeward Oahu group that believes the valley is scared to native Hawaiians, have been fighting the Army over the use of Makua. No live-fire infantry exercises have been held in the area since 2004 because of the court cases.

Both sides agree that more than 50 endangered plant and animal species and more than 100 archaeological features are found in the valley area.

McHugh said at a Friday news conference that the Army has spent $10 million a year to ensure the safety of the endangered plants and animals and provide access to cultural and historical sites. Proponents have argued that is not enough.

Earlier this year Mixon said the Army plans to spend $37 million to convert Makua Valley into a roadside-bomb and counter-insurgency training center.

“It’s obviously an incredible, beautiful part of the island,” McHugh told reporters after his first visit to the islands and Makua Valley. “My first impression visually was that the Army has done a more than credible job in preserving its historic nature and preserving its environmental nature.”

McHugh said he believes the military can share the valley with the community.

Mixon has said that over the next decade much traditional infantry and artillery training can be shifted to the Big Island’s Pohakuloa Training Area.

Makua Valley, with proper funding and support, could become a training center on gathering intelligence, Mixon has said. The center could provide training on homemade bombs used in all parts of the world, especially important given the growing threat in the Philippines, India and the rest of Asia. Soldiers from Pacific basin countries could also be sent here for such training at Makua.

He also said that Makua is a good place to train with unmanned aerial vehicles.

McHugh was in the islands on the last leg of a weeklong visit to Army bases in Japan, South Korea and Hawaii. The former Republican U.S. House member is the Army’s 21st civilian leader. He assumed the post in September.

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Hawai’i Okinawa Alliance calls for demonstration in solidarity with Okinawa and All Pacific

PAN-PACIFIC RALLY TO DEMILITARIZE THE PACIFIC:

SOLIDARITY WITH OKINAWA, GUAM, TOKUNO ISLAND, KOREA & HAWAI`I

END THE OCCUPATION OF FUTENMA!

PRINCE KUHIO FEDERAL BUILDING, HONOLULU (300 ALA MOANA BLVD & PUNCHBOWL)

FRIDAY, MAY 14, 2010 4:30-6:30

On May 16, 2010, Okinawans will be encircling Futenma Marine Corps Air Station in Ginowan City, Okinawa, forming a human chain around the enormous military base as a vote of mass opposition and solidarity against further base expansion in Okinawa, particularly Henoko in northern rural Okinawa, the proposed site of Futenma’s relocation.   On May 14, diverse people of O`ahu will gather in solidarity with the Futenma rally and other people’s movements throughout the Pacific.

However, this isn’t just about Okinawa.  This is an international problem.  US military forces are deployed in 130 countries around the world, with permanent bases in 50 nations and growing.  Because of local resistance in Okinawa, alternative sites have been proposed, such as in Guam and Tokuno Island in the Ryukyu Archipelago (north of Okinawa).  From the illegal overthrow and military occupation of Hawai`i in 1893, the US, along with other colonizers, have occupied nations throughout the Pacific with military forces and agendas.  We stand with our Pasifika sisters & brothers united against further military occupation and expansion, including localities not mentioned in this appeal.

We demand the clean-up and return of lands back to civil societies to restore true human security and self-determination throughout our island homes.  Recent proposals to relocate forces from Okinawa to Guam, the Marianas, and Tokuno Island are just spreading this problem.  This is not a “not in my backyard” movement, but a “no militarism anywhere” unity rally.  To date, policy makers have not listened to island residents, so we unite as an ohana (family), defending our rights, our homes, our human security and our legacies.   Similarly, we want occupation armed forces to return to their home fronts, to help rebuild their communities and ultimately our collective human security.

US Armed Forces invaded Lu Chu (b.k.a. Okinawa) in 1945, and have never left.  Taking over and expanding Imperial Japanese airfields built by conscripted Okinawans, US military continued to occupy almost 20% of the island of Okinawa, including Futenma Marine Corps Air Station.  Called “the most dangerous airfield” by former Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld, the Japanese and US governments agreed to Okinawan demands for the reduction of military occupation, including Futenma MCAS, which sits in the middle of urban Ginowan City, surrounded by neighborhoods, schools, hospitals and local business that must live with overhead jets and constant fear of accidents, such as the helicopter crash into Okinawa International University in 2004.  In addition to inevitable accidents and the social problems resulting from foreign military occupation, communities around Futenma must endure up to 200 decibel-shrieking flights a day over their neighborhoods and studies have found disproportionate low-weight births and lower academic outcomes in surrounding schools attributed to the noise pollution.  Slated for closure by 2014, Japanese Prime Minister Hatoyama recently announced that complete closure of Futenma is now somehow “impossible.”

Among the tired excuses for continued military occupation of Okinawa is the Cold War relic North Korea.  For 60 years, militarist strategies have failed to end the war between the Koreas.  It is clear that these militant policies don’t resolve conflict, but acerbate tensions, suffering and militarism on all fronts.  We call for peaceful resolution to such conflicts through diplomatic, cultural and economic exchange towards our collective security, as militaristic approaches have failed.  We link our struggles for peace with the people of the Koreas, sisters and brothers divided by failed, archaic politics.

Guahan, better known as the US colony of Guam, has shown widespread opposition to the resettlement of occupational forces from Okinawa to Guam that will overwhelm the fragile ecology of this even smaller island and reef system.  Meanwhile, other Micronesian and Mariana islands have been considered for relocation, while islanders disproportionately serve and die as fodder for a foreign commander-in-chief they could never vote for as non-citizens, nor serve as officers in this military poverty draft.

As island cousins, we sound the call to unite for our common defense against all forms of militarism and colonization, and our collective aspirations for international peace through social justice, sustainability, self-determination and mutual support.  After WWII, Okinawans in Hawai`i came together to help war-torn Okinawa; it is time we come support again.  Supporters include: DMZ-Hawai`i Aloha Aina, AFSC-Hawai`i, Ohana Koa NFIP and Buddhist Peace Fellowship-O`ahu; contact us to add your associations.

Parking is limited to streets, so consider carpooling and bus.  Feel free to bring signs, banners, instruments, friends and family to this unity rally committed to non-violence and popular sovereignty.

Yuimaaru/Laulima/Solidarity,

HOA (Hawai`i Okinawa Alliance)

Pete Shimazaki Doktor dok@riseup.net

Jamie Oshiro 808-728-0062

Impacted Sites

http://hoa.seesaa.net/

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Schofield sergeant indicted in assault on infant son

Sad news that perhaps reflects how war affects families.

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Updated at 2:14 p.m., Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Schofield sergeant indicted in assault on infant son

Advertiser Staff

A Schofield Barracks Army sergeant was indicted this morning on a charge of assaulting his infant son “to stop his crying,” a prosecutor said in court

The defendant, Larry Moses Jackson, initially denied wrongdoing but later “admitted to shaking and squeezing his seven-month-old son to stop his crying,” Deputy Prosecutor Victoria Kapp said after the indictment was returned.

Jackson is charged with first-degree assault.

The baby suffered multiple bilateral rib fractures, brain injuries and retinal hemorrhaging, Kapp said.

Jackson has no prior arrests. Circuit Judge Richard Perkins set bail at $100,000.

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Hawaii to host RIMPAC naval maneuvers this summer

Posted on: Thursday, April 29, 2010

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Hawaii to host RIMPAC naval maneuvers this summer

Isle businesses expect boost from bienennial event

By William Cole

Advertiser Military Writer

A naval exercise that brings to Hawai’i’s shores thousands of service members from the U.S. and foreign nations, an aircraft carrier, beach landings — and millions in Waikīkī tourist dollars — is returning between late June and early August.

The U.S. Navy hasn’t yet released all the details for the 2010 Rim of the Pacific war games, but the last time the biennial exercise was held in 2008, there were 10 countries, 35 ships, six submarines and 150 aircraft involved.

A total of 20,000 sailors, airmen, Marines, soldiers and Coast Guardsmen participated.

“The reason that we do it is to make sure that there’s stability throughout the Pacific Rim,” said Chief Petty Officer Terry Rhedin, a Navy spokesperson in San Diego.

RIMPAC, one of the world’s largest maritime exercises, also provides an opportunity for allied nations to improve interoperability and communications.

The U.S., Japan, South Korea, Canada, Australia, Singapore and the Netherlands will be among participants this year, Rhedin said.

Chile will be an observer and Russia “was given an invitation (to be an observer ),” Rhedin said. “I don’t know if they’ve accepted.”

Ships to be sunk

A U.S. aircraft carrier and amphibious assault ship — as yet unidentified — will be two of the biggest ships involved.

The former USS Coronado, an amphibious transport dock ship that was commissioned in 1970, used as a command ship and was decommissioned in 2006, will be one of several warships that will be sunk as part of the training, Rhedin said.

Rhedin said yesterday she didn’t have the approximate number of foreign and U.S. service members taking part in RIMPAC, but it is in the “thousands.” The Navy said the exercise timeframe is from about June 23 to Aug. 2.

In 2004 and 2006, the RIMPAC exercise was estimated to have brought in more than $20 million in spending in Honolulu, Rhedin said.

Lucy Lau, marketing coordinator for the Hale Koa Hotel, said the exercise provides an extra summertime boost in Waikīkī.

“It helps us a lot. In RIMPAC years our hotel is a little more bustling” and food and beverage sales increase, she said.

The Hale Koa is one of five U.S. armed forces recreation centers around the world and is operated by the Army, Lau said.

Lau said some families fly in to be with relatives taking part in the exercise. Service members have some free time at the beginning and end of RIMPAC, she said.

“Normally, that break is good for everyone in Waikīkī because all of those sailors are going to come in from all different countries,” Lau said. “So Waikīkī bustles at that time.”

Four ships were sunk in the 2008 war games off Kaua’i including the destroyers Fletcher, David R. Ray and Cushing; and the cruiser Horne.

Heavyweight Mk-48 torpedoes and Harpoon missiles were among the armaments used in the “sinkex” drills.

This year’s exercise is the 22nd in a series of RIMPAC exercises conducted since 1971.

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Military bases on O’ahu have special arrangements for municipal services

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Military homeowners pay taxes, get some services

By June Watanabe

POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Apr 29, 2010

Question: I saw City & County of Honolulu labels on trash bins in the Navy family housing area near Honolulu Airport. I’m presuming that city crews collect trash in that area and hope that the city is reimbursed for that service. How much does the Navy pay for that service?

Answer: Individual homeowners at military housing projects “outside the gates” of military bases pay real property taxes to the city and thus are entitled to its refuse collection services.

The city provides off-base refuse collection services to homes in the Honolulu Airport-Navy Marine Golf Course area, McGrew Point, Pearl City Peninsula, Iroquois Point and Kalaeloa, said Markus Owens, spokesman for the city Department of Environmental Services.

He explained that these housing areas are on federal land leased to a private developer. The properties are taxable, so homeowners are assessed real property taxes.

However, Owens said the federal properties do not qualify for all city services, such as road maintenance.

Meanwhile, there are three agreements between the city and the military, covering the four major branches, which state that the military will not use the city’s refuse and road maintenance services, or routine police, fire and ambulance services, on any of the bases.

By the unilateral agreements, the city collects a “Military Housing Fee” in lieu of real property tax for on-base properties, Owens said.

The Army Family Housing agreement, signed Dec. 23, 2004, expires Feb. 15, 2055; the Hickam Family Housing agreement, signed Feb. 1, 2005, expires Jan 31, 2055; and the Ohana Military Communities agreement, signed March 13, 2009, expires April 30, 2054.

Owens said the agreements cover the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine bases.

“Each agreement has a set base contribution,” he said. “Each year, the contribution is adjusted by the percentage of change of the weighted average ‘Base Housing Allowance,’ but it can never be lower than the base contribution.”

As to how much the fees are, we were told the figures were not readily available.

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Victim in 2008 beating dies

Former Schofield soldier may face murder charge in ‘Ewa Beach attack of his wife, Tara Williams

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Posted on: Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Victim in 2008 beating dies

Former Schofield soldier may face murder charge in ‘Ewa Beach attack

By Curtis Lum

Advertiser Staff Writer

A 38-year-old woman whose husband is accused of beating her in their ‘Ewa Beach home in 2008 has died in a Florida hospital.

Tara Phillips had been hospitalized since she was found beaten in the bedroom of her Kai’oli Street home on Sept. 3, 2008. Prosecutors said Phillips was bludgeoned with a hammer and suffered “multiple depressed skull fractures and massive brain injuries,” and that she was not expected to survive.

Phillips was transferred to the James A. Haley Veterans’ Hospital in Tampa, Fla., where she died April 19. Services were held yesterday and she was buried at Barrancas National Cemetery near her home in Pensacola, Fla.

On Sept. 10, 2008, an O’ahu grand jury indicted her husband, Lincoln Phillips, on one count of second-degree attempted murder. He remains in custody at the O’ahu Community Correctional Center on $500,000 bail.

Jim Fulton, spokesman for the city prosecutor’s office, said his office will await a cause of death from the medical examiner’s office before deciding whether to pursue a murder charge against Phillips.

“At this point in time, there’s no speculation as to what the cause of death was,” Fulton said. “It has to be causal for us to move forward.”

Phillips, 36, is scheduled to go on trial on the attempted murder charge Aug. 23 before Circuit Judge Karen Ahn.

State Deputy Public Defender Randall Hironaka would not comment yesterday on Phillips’ plan- ned defense.

Police were sent to the Phillipses’ home shortly before 4 a.m. Sept. 3, 2008, on a report of an assault. When officers arrived at the home, Lincoln Phillips told them that someone broke into his home and assaulted his wife, according to a police affidavit filed in Honolulu District Court.

Phillips said that earlier he had trouble sleeping and went for a drive about an hour before he discovered his wife injured. When he returned, he said, he got into bed with her and noticed she was having problems breathing, the affidavit said.

But police said there were no signs of a forced entry into the home and that Phillips gave inconsistent statements when questioned, the affidavit said. Police also became suspicious when they found a bloody hammer and clothes belonging to Phillips in the home, the affidavit said.

Witnesses told police they heard the couple arguing in the home about 3:30 a.m. on Sept. 3. One witness also reported hearing “a loud thumping sound coming from the upstairs portion of Tara and Lincoln’s residence” where Tara Phillips was found injured, the affidavit said.

Police arrested Lincoln Phillips two days later on suspicion of attempted murder. He was stationed at Schofield Barracks at the time of the incident.

Tara Phillips was born in Pensacola and joined the Army in 1990. She served in Germany and the first Gulf War before being honorably discharged in 2000.

Tara Phillips earned a bachelor’s degree in business from Hawai’i Pacific University in 2004. She is survived by two sons, her mother and four sisters.

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Ryukyu Shimpo article on demonstrations in Washington, D.C. and Honolulu (Japanese language)

The article reports on the action in front of the Japanese Embassy in Washington, D.C. and the vigil in Honolulu in front of the Consulate General of Japan.   The article mentions that in Hawai’i, participants wore a yellow ribbons and held signs saying “Bases Out of Guam, Okinawa, Hawaii”. After igniting candles, participants gathered in front of the consulate.

The article also reported that Mr. Kyle Kajihiro said “Hawaii, Okinawa and Guam, even from a small area, by the will of the people gathering, you can exert power. Chibariyo to the people of Okinawa.” A Japanese Brazilian first time protester,  Mr. Marvin Uehara said the “opinions of the Okinawan people should be respected.” The participants shared their feelings, sang “Teinsagunu flower” and “Hana” in chorus. The participants tied yellow ribbons to the wall of the consulate.

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基地動かす力に　ワシントン、ハワイでも連帯2010年4月27 日

県 内移設反対を訴えるメンバーら＝２５日午後、ワシントンＤＣの日本大使館前

「沖 縄の人にチバリヨーと言いたい」と語るカイルさん＝ホノルル市の日本国総領事館前

◆「ジュゴン守 れ」／連帯組織「ＮＯ」　日本大使館前でデモ
【米ワシントン２５日＝与那嶺路代本紙特派員】米軍普天間飛行場の撤去を求め、北米を拠点に活動す る連帯組織「ネットワークフォア沖縄（ＮＯ）」（ジョン・フェファー代表）は２５日午後、読谷村で開かれた４・２５県民大会に合せ、米ワシントンＤＣの日 本大使館前で抗議デモを行った。
約３０人の参加者らは「基地を閉鎖せよ」「ジュゴンを守れ」などと書かれたプラカードを掲げ、「沖縄に基地は要 らない」と声を張り上げた。
フェファー代表は「（現行案は）沖縄の負担軽減にならない。米軍基地による汚染、騒音、暴力などの問題を宜野湾から辺野古へ移すだけだ。基地の県内移設 ではなく、沖縄から取り除きたいという県民のメッセージを支持する」との連帯声明文を読み上げた。
ＮＯは生物多様性センターや米保守党防衛同盟など１６団体で構成。沖縄での新基地建設や、鹿児島県徳之島への移設に反対し、ジュゴンなど希少生物の保護 を訴えている。
ＮＯは週内にもワシントンポスト紙に沖縄の基地撤去を訴える広告を出す予定。

◆県民大会に歓声／日系人ら“普天間”解決訴え
ハワイ在住の日系人らが沖縄について考える「ハワイ沖縄アライエンス」（ＨＯＡ）のメンバーや沖縄県系人の三世、四世のグループが２５日午後、在ホノル ル日本国総領事館前で、４・２５県民大会に連帯する集会を開いた。黄色いリボンを着けた参加者は「グアム、沖縄、ハワイの基地を撤退せよ」などのプラカー ドを掲げ、普天間飛行場問題の解決をアピールした。
領事館前に集まった参加者がろうそくの火をともす中、ＨＯＡメンバーの島崎ピートさんがメディアで報じられている県民大会の様子を報告。参加者の間から 大きな歓声が上がった。
参加者の一人、カジヒロ・カイルさんは「ハワイ、沖縄、グアムという小さい地域からでも、人々の意思を集結することで、力を発揮できる。沖縄の人にチバ リヨーと言いたい」と語った。このような集会に初めて参加するというブラジル出身のハワイ大学院生、上原マルビン氏は「沖縄県民の意見が尊重されるべき だ」と述べた。参加者はそれぞれの想いを語った後、全員で「てぃんさぐぬ花」「花」を合唱。身に着けた黄色いリボンを領事館の壁に結び付けた。
（名護千賀子ハワイ通信員）

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Still Present Pasts: Korean Americans and the “Forgotten War”

AFSC Hawai’i and the DMZ-Hawai’i / Aloha ‘Aina network has been collaborating with the Hawai’i Korea Peace Day Committee and the National Campaign to End the Korean War on a number of events. This upcoming exhibit makes tangible the memories of a “forgotten war”, a war that has never officially ended.

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Still Present Pasts: Korean Americans and the “Forgotten War”

June 26 through September 12, 2010, Castle Memorial Building, Second Floor

Still Present Pasts

The Korean War (June 1950–July 1953) had a devastating effect on Korea and a significant impact on the United States. On June 26, 2010—almost 60 years to the day after the war’s start—a unique exhibit about the Korean War and its legacies will open at Bishop Museum. Still Present Pasts is a multi-media exhibit that uses art, video, history and spoken word created by a young generation of Korean American artists to explore the long shadow of the war. The exhibit also features oral narratives of Koreans who lived through the conflict.

The Honolulu appearance of Still Present Pasts has been spearheaded by the non-profit Biographical Research Center, with financial support from the Hawai‘i Council for the Humanities.

You can learn more about Still Present Pasts by visiting the exhibit’s website.

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