http://www.truthout.org/11050912 Mass Shooting Indicates Breakdown of Military Thursday 05 November 2009 by: Dahr Jamail, t r u t h o u t | Report At approximately 1:30 p.m. CST today, a soldier went on a shooting rampage at Fort Hood in Killeen, Texas, killing 12 people and wounding at least 31 others, according to base… Read more »
Monthly Archives: November 2009
Marines plan another urban training site in Hawai’i?
The article doesn’t specify where the Marines plan to put this new facility. They already built a new MOUT at Waimanalo (Bellows) on Hawaiian national land that was supposed to be returned. They failed to consult with the local community, which sparked protests. Previously, the Marines had wanted to build a MOUT on Mokapu peninsula,… Read more »
“The Good Soldier” opens Veteran’s Day November 11
The Good Soldier http://thegoodsoldier.com/index.html Directed by Lexy Lovell and Michael Uys (DGA, Los Angeles Film Critics, and Peabody Award winners for Riding the Rails) The Good Soldier follows the journeys of five combat veterans from different generations of American wars as they sign up, go into battle, and eventually change their minds about what it… Read more »
Report on protest at Hilo Veteran’s Parade
Aloha kakou, About 40-50 people in total turned out, during the nearly 3 and l/2 hour protest at today’s Hilo Veterans Parade. The protest focus was the U.S. illegal wars of aggression and occupation in Iraq and Afghanistan and the military including vehicles from Pohakuloa Training Area (PTA) recently returned from Iraq. Among those present… Read more »
ATSDR: Change in Public Policy regarding Vieques
PRESS RELEASE FROM CASA PUEBLO, Adjuntas, Puerto Rico, via Atlanta, GA, USA, to Vieques, Puerto Rico ATSDR: Change in Public Policy regarding Vieques Drs. Arturo Massol Deyá of Casa Pueblo de Adjuntas / UPR Mayagüez, Carmen Ortiz Roque, and Carmen Colón de Jorge participated in extensive discovery meetings about scientific investigations of Vieques in the… Read more »
Dead Last: Hawaii Gets an “F” in Education
http://www.truthout.org/1106098 Dead Last: Hawaii Gets an “F” in Education Friday 06 November 2009 by: Jon Letman, t r u t h o u t | News Analysis Hawaii’s public schools are in crisis. Simply put, there isn’t enough money to keep them open full-time. With the State of Hawaii facing a $1 billion budget deficit… Read more »
Hilo groups will protest Strykers on parade
According to the Honolulu Advertiser article Strykers will be included in the Hilo Veterans parade: Organizers hoped to keep word of the vehicles a secret from peace activists like Jim Albertini of the Malu Aina Center for Non-Violent Education and Action, in an attempt to ward off conflict. Albertini found out anyway, and on Sunday… Read more »
Strykers (and DU) on Parade in Hilo?
Mahalo to Joan Conrow and the Hawaii Independent for this article about Hilo residents’ opposition to Strykers and possible Depleted Uranium contamination being in the Veteran’s Day Parade. >><< http://thehawaiiindependent.com/page-one/read/veterans-parade-hit-with-du-concerns/ Hilo Veterans’ Day parade hit with depleted uranium concerns Nov 05, 2009 – 12:35 PM | By Joan Conrow | The Hawaii Independent HILO—Plans to… Read more »
U.S. basing and war plans threaten peace in Korea
A friend in the Korean peace movement pointed out that the decision to keep the Eighth Army headquarters in Korea is in line with the controversial OPLAN 5029, an a U.S. military operational plan for a war and invasion of North Korea. The plan had been only drafted as a “Conceptual plan” or CONPLAN until… Read more »
Another article on the 8th Army HQ remaining in Korea
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2009/11/205_55022.html 11-06-2009 18:04 8th US Army to Remain in Korea By Jung Sung-ki Staff Reporter The Eighth U.S. Army (EUSA) will remain in South Korea even after Korean commanders take over wartime operational control (OPCON) of its forces from the U.S. military in 2012, the U.S. Forces Korea (USFK) announced Friday. The United States will… Read more »
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