One of the most important writers to come out of the Asian American community, Jon Shirota will be in Hawai‘i for four events in November 2009: “An Okinawan Sense of Place,” a talk and discussion, Thursday, Nov. 5, 3–4:30 p.m., room 410, Kuykendall Hall (English department), UH Manoa campus. Opening of his play Voices from… Read more »
Monthly Archives: November 2009
“Voices from Okinawa” at Kumu Kahua Theater, plus events honoring the author
Voices from Okinawa by Jon Shirota http://www.kumukahua.org/0910okinawa.html Kumu Kahua Theatre 46 Merchant Street, Honolulu, Hawai`i 96813 Box Office Phone: (808) 536-4441 Email: kumukahuatheatre@hawaiiantel.net • URL: www.kumukahua.org Thursday, Friday & Saturday 8pm: November 5, 6, 7, 12, 13, 14, 19, 20, 21, 27, 28; December 3, 4, 5, 2009 Sundays 2pm: November 8, 15, 22, 29;… Read more »
Abercrombie defends military expansion on Guam
The debate in the news media has been between setting higher prevailing wage standards and American hiring preferences for Guam military construction jobs or allowing companies to pay foreign workers at lower rates. But the real issue is the illegality and immorality of the U.S. military expansion on Guam. Many Chamoru have voiced their opposition… Read more »
U.S. offers Taliban 6 Provinces for 8 Bases?
This article was originally posted on islamonline.net and has been circulating on many conservative blogs as ‘proof’ of Obama’s weakness and appeasement. It is difficulty to assess the reliability of the source. If the story is true that the U.S. offered a power sharing arrangement with the Taliban in exchange for 8 U.S…. Read more »
Community organizes to oppose expansion of Navy bombing range in N. Carolina
Navy’s proposed expansion of bombing range threatens outdoorsmen, endangered species by Fred Bonner It seems like the U.S. Government never stops trying to take over more land in North Carolina for one reason or another. If it’s not land (as in dry land) it’s our air space or our waters. A few weeks ago when… Read more »
Understanding North Korea
http://www.eastbayexpress.com/gyrobase/understanding-north-korea/Content?oid=1371843&showFullText=true Understanding North Korea For years, East Bay activists have been trying to influence US policy toward North Korea. Finally, Washington may be listening. By Kathleen Wentz As a longtime peace activist and progressive, Christine Ahn was used to being on the ideological fringe. But even she wasn’t prepared to be red-baited and called a… Read more »
Stealing a Nation: the U.S. military occupation of Diego Garcia
This award winning documentary by British journalist John Pilger reveals the conspiracy between the U.S. and the U.K. to remove the entire population of Diego Garcia, an atoll in the Chagos archipelago, an Indian Ocean British colony, to make way for the construction of a massive U.S. military base. Diego Garcia is now one of… Read more »
Bamford reviews new book about the NSA: The Secret Sentry: The Untold History of the National Security Agency
Under the pineapple fields of Wahiawa, a massive new spy facility is being built to house the NSA signals intelligence center (to replace its aging Kunia facility), the Navy Commuications Master Center and other intelligence gathering entities. James Bamford, author of the Puzzle Palace and other books on the NSA reviews a new book about… Read more »
Mumia Abu-Jamal: From Bases to Bars – The Military & Prison Industrial Complexes Go ‘Boom’
From Bases to Bars The Military & Prison Industrial Complexes Go ‘Boom’ By Mumia Abu-Jamal Looking back to the halcyon days of the movement against the Vietnam War, one sees the birth of what seemed to be a new world. Every day, one could almost see and touch giant boulders crumbling off the edifice of… Read more »
Hawaii stimulus funds use draws fire
Here’s an article in the Honolulu Advertiser that provides some background to the school furlough, federal stimulus situation. I wonder how much Hawai’i would save by cutting the JROTC programs, which provide no real educational benefit. Here’s the editorial by U.S. Secretary of Defense Arne Duncan: http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/20091023/OPINION03/910230319/Hawaii+erred+in+cutting+education >><< http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/20091102/NEWS01/911020354/Hawaii+stimulus+funds+use+draws+fire Posted on: Monday, November 2, 2009… Read more »
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