Hawaiʻi island peace activists reported that elevated levels of uranium have been found in residents’ urine and demanded that the State of Hawaiʻi Department of Health take more aggressive measures to investigate the cause of this contamination. After falsely claiming that the Army had not used Depleted Uranium (DU) in Hawaiʻi, the Army now admits… Read more »
Posts Categorized: Kaua’i & Ni’ihau
Military cyberwarfare testing off Kauai might jam up civilian GPS across the Hawaiian islands
The Honolulu Star Advertiser reports that the U.S. military has been conducting classfied, i.e. secret, tests that could disrupt civilian GPS systems – “Military testing off Kauai might muck up civilian GPS” (September 4, 2012): A unit of the U.S. Strategic Command is conducting classified Global Positioning System tests in waters off Kauai that could… Read more »
Ann Wright: Green-Washing War, Sinking Ships, Drones from Submarines — Largest International War Games around Hawaii
Ann Wright wrote an excellent article in Op Ed News on the RIMPAC exercises in Hawaiʻi, the Pacific “pivot” and protests from Okinawa to Pohakuloa: Green-Washing War, Sinking Ships, Drones from Submarines — Largest International War Games around Hawaii By Ann Wright Reflecting the Obama administration’s “pivot” to Asia and the Pacific, the United States… Read more »
Opposition to MV-22 Ospreys grows
Photo: Walter Ritte From different sectors of the community there is growing opposition to the proposed stationing of MV-22 Osprey and Cobra attack helicopters at Marine Corps Base Hawaii Kaneohe Bay and their plans to train across the islands. Molokai residents are mobilizing against the Marine Corps proposal to station Ospreys tilt-rotor aircraft and Cobra… Read more »
RIMPAC “Sinkex”: Using Hawaiʻi’s seas a garbage dump
PHOTO: U.S. NAVY A live-fire exercise, part of Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) 2012, sank the ex-USS Niagara Falls (T-AFS-3) in waters 15,480 feet deep, 63 miles southwest of Kauai about 11:31 a.m. on Saturday, July 14. The RIMPAC assault on Hawaiʻi continues. This time, the Navy uses our seas a dump for their old… Read more »
Depleted Uranium at Schofield and Pohakuloa – Army chafes at NRC regulations
In 2005, DMZ-Hawaiʻi / Aloha ʻAina first exposed the fact that, despite Army assurances that depleted uranium was not used in Hawaiʻi, in fact, depleted uranium (DU) had been found at Schofield Barracks on Oʻahu. Since then, the Army has tried to dismiss the problem. In order to not run afoul of nuclear regulatory laws,… Read more »
Kauaʻi Surfrider Foundation to launch RIMPAC watch
The Garden Island reported that the Kauaʻi Chapter of Surfrider Foundation is launching a RIMPAC watch June 29 through August 7: The Kaua’i chapter of the Surfrider Foundation is asking the public for help monitoring environmental impacts during the Navy’s RIMPAC event that starts this week. [. . .] More than 40 ships, six submarines,… Read more »
Osprey crashes, Japanese city rejects Osprey, and Marines want to bring Osprey to Hawai’i?
The Honolulu Star Advertiser reported that”Marines’ copter plan raises fear of noise” (June 12, 2012): The public has nearly a month to weigh in on Marine Corps plans to station MV-22 tiltrotor Osprey and H-1 Cobra and Huey attack-utility helicopter squadrons at Marine Corps Base Hawaii, but any community opposition likely will boil down to… Read more »
The Merry Month of May: Missiles launched as Hawaiʻi braces for another RIMPAC invasion
May is known as the “Merry Month” for its longer days and warm sunshine. Most of the world observes May 1st as International Workers’ Day or celebrates the ancient pagan rites of spring. But in the U.S., the radical legacy of May Day has been suppressed and supplanted by the typically tame Labor Day. In… Read more »
Impacts of Missile Defense in the Pacific, Asia and the World
The Kaua’i Alliance for Peace and Social Justice and the International Forum on Globalization present a thought-provoking evening with prominent peace activists. DOWNLOAD THE POSTER Impacts of Missile Defense in the Pacific, Asia and the World PMRF Missiles Destroy Environment, Democracy, Cultures February 21, 2012 6:30 pm Kapa’a Public Library FREE Speakers: Bruce Gagnon, Coordinator… Read more »
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