Mahalo to Sung Hee Choi for these reports on peace/anti-war/anti-militarism demonstrations across Korea in response to provocative U.S.-Republic of Korea joint military exercises. >><< http://nobasestorieskorea.blogspot.com/2010/03/key-resolve-us-sk-annual-war-exercise.html Monday, March 8, 2010 Key Resolve, US-SK Annual War Exercise Starts in the Korean Peninsula on March 8 and Nationwide Protests against it, as Well * Image source: Solidarity for… Read more »
Monthly Archives: March 2010
Jeju Island Farmers Continue to Resist Navy Base
For more photos, please see here: http://nobasestorieskorea.blogspot.com/2010/03/gangjeong-is-strong-and.html http://space4peace.blogspot.com/2010/03/jeju-island-farmers-continue-to-resist.html Monday, March 08, 2010 JEJU ISLAND FARMERS CONTINUE TO RESIST NAVY BASE It has been raining on and off for more than a month in the Gangjeong village. Still the lights in the tents have never been put out in the nights. About 4-5 people in shifts… Read more »
Stop the desecration of Haleakala – videos posted
John Sefick posted a comment to an earlier article with links to videos about the desecration of Haleakala mountain by military and astronomy programs. I decided to make it a regular post so that more people would be sure to see it: Cultural Genocide on Haleakala, Maui by National Science Foundation & UH Institute for… Read more »
The Travails of a Client State: An Okinawan Angle on the 50th Anniversary of the US-Japan Security Treaty
Gavan McCormack provides an excellent analysis of Japan’s ‘client state’ position, the anti-bases movement in Okinawa and the crisis it represents for the US-Japan Security Treaty. He links the bases issue to “poison” of war and occupation of other countries: While official 50th anniversary commemorations celebrate the US military as the source of the “oxygen”… Read more »
Militarization would desecrate Pagat, Chamorro sacred site
http://mvguam.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=11119:sacrilege-in-pagat&catid=29:letter-to-the-editor&Itemid=62 From the Marianas Variety Sacrilege in Pagat Friday, 26 February 2010 01:58 Letter to the Editor WHAT is Pagat? For the people who wrote the draft environmental impact statement, it is nothing more than a place to shoot off high-powered guns. For some people, it is worthless jungle, just as lattes and lusongs are… Read more »
Japanese groups conduct fact-finding visit to Guam
http://mvguam.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=11256:fact-finding-mission&catid=1:guam-local-news&Itemid=2 Fact-finding mission Friday, 05 March 2010 01:20 by Mar-Vic Cagurangan | Variety News Staff Japanese lobby groups coming to Guam A 20-MEMBER delegation consisting of representatives from an influential coalition of Japanese lobby groups, is arriving on Guam tomorrow on a four-day fact-finding mission to assess the island’s capacity to accommodate the troops that… Read more »
Nago assembly rejects US Marine relocation option
http://www.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/08_13.html Nago assembly rejects US Marine relocation option The municipal assembly of Nago, Okinawa says it will not allow a helicopter runway to be built within a US Marine base in the city. The building of a helicopter runway within the US Marine Corps Camp Schwab is one of the options being considered by a… Read more »
Kahuli: MUSIC 4 da PEOPLE – Pu’uloa
MUSIC 4 da PEOPLE March 13, 2010 12:00 pm BLAISDELL PARK in Pearl City Uncle George Kahumoku and his puppet show will be featured Theme is the demilitarization & healing of Pu’uloa…and the honoring of da Shark Queen, Ka’ahupahau!! Spread da word!! http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?v=feed&story_fbid=390233147288&id=504867288#!/photo.php?pid=3544197&id=16679366309
A Military Coup in Iraq?
http://www.truthout.org/a-military-coup-iraq57374 A Military Coup in Iraq? Thursday 04 March 2010 by: Raed Jarrar, t r u t h o u t | Report Twenty million eligible voters are invited to participate in this weekend’s parliamentary election in Iraq. The election, scheduled for Sunday March 7, will take place amid an wave of increased violence and… Read more »
U.K. proposes Chagos marine reserve that could block islanders’ return
Chagos is an Indian Ocean island possession of the UK, one of the colonies it held onto after decolonization. Britain evicted the native Chagossian population and leased the island to the U.S. military. Now Diego Garcia is one of the most important bases in America’s empire of bases. British courts except for the House of… Read more »
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