http://www.bigislandweekly.com/articles/2010/04/21/read/news/news02.txt ‘Great green fleet’ looks to Big Isle for fuel The Navy wants land to grow crops for its biofuel to power the next generation military crafts By Alan D. Mcnarie Wednesday, April 21, 2010 9:52 AM HST Hawai’i has long been dependent on imports for nearly all of its fuel and most of its… Read more »
Monthly Archives: April 2010
U.S. Military Bases and Funshi (Feng Shui)
ANTHROPOLOGY COLLOQUIUM SERIES U.S. Military Bases and Funshi (Feng Shui): The Anti-Base Movement and Community Development in Yomitan, Okinawa Tomoaki Hara Associate Professor of Anthropology, Shizuoka University, Japan Thursday, April 22nd at 3:00 pm, in Crawford Hall 115 The 1997 city master plan of Yomitan Village, Okinawa, is unique in all of Japan in that… Read more »
Hawaii Okinawa Alliance: Candlelight Peace Vigil for Okinawa
Sunset Candlelight Peace Vigil for Okinawa Japanese Consulate Honolulu Nu`uanu Avenue & Kuakini, Sunday, April 25, 2010, 6pm This Sunday in Okinawa, as well as throughout Japan, Washington, D.C. and here in O`ahu, hundreds of thousands of supporters of demilitarizing Okinawa will be rallying to close down Futenma Marine Corps Airstation in the middle of… Read more »
Barbers Point closure and conversion ‘one of the worst examples’
The closure and redevelopment of Barbers Point Naval Air Station was one of the “worst examples of reusing a shuttered military installation.” It’s almost as if someone wanted the base realignment to fail. A successful conversion would have generated momentum for the closure of more military bases. All bases were closed in the San Francisco… Read more »
Iraq Vets: Coverage of Atrocities Is Too Little, Too Late
http://www.truthout.org/iraq-vets-coverage-atrocities-is-too-little-too-late58527 Iraq Vets: Coverage of Atrocities Is Too Little, Too Late Tuesday 13 April 2010 by: Dahr Jamail, t r u t h o u t | Report (Image: Jared Rodriguez / t r u t h o u t; Adapted: Spc. Jeffery Sandstrum / U.S. Army, thomas.merton) The WikiLeaks video footage from Iraq taken… Read more »
Jeju update: Farmers are being pushed out to make way for the Naval base
I’m reposting the recent update from Sung Hee Choi about the struggle against a proposed naval base in Jeju, South Korea. While the base is a South Korean military base, it is a part of the overall U.S. strategy for Northeast Asia to encircle China with missile defense systems. Villagers have fought vigorously against the… Read more »
800 gallons of sewage spills into Pearl Harbor
http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/20100417/BREAKING01/100417032/800+gallons+of+sewage+spills+into+Pearl+Harbor Updated at 2:03 p.m., Saturday, April 17, 2010 800 gallons of sewage spills into Pearl Harbor Advertiser Staff An estimated 800 gallons of sewage has been discharged into a storm drain at Merry Point, Pearl Harbor today due to a broken pipe, according to the state’s Department of Health Clean Water Branch. The break… Read more »
Why is a closing Navy commissary being given away to a private company?
The Honolulu Advertiser reports that the Barbers Point Commissary is closing and that the property will be turned over to the private Ford Island Ventures. How does a private business get excess public assets? And who is Ford Island Ventures? Ford Island Ventures is a joint venture of Hunt Building Co. and Fluor Federal Services… Read more »
‘Collateral Murder’ veterans apologize to the Iraqi people
http://org2.democracyinaction.org/o/5966/t/9615/p/salsa/web/common/public/content?content_item_KEY=2491 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 15th, 2010 Contact: Laura Taylor: 202-510-3711 info@civsol.org VETERANS OF “WIKILEAKS” INCIDENT ANNOUNCE “LETTER OF RECONCILIATION” TO IRAQIS INJURED IN ATTACK Two former soldiers from the Army unit responsible for the Wikileaks “Collateral Murder” incident have written an open-letter of “Reconciliation and Responsibility” to those injured in the July 2007 attack,… Read more »
Vet kills himself in front of Dayton vet center
http://www.daytondailynews.com/news/veteran-commits-suicide-in-front-of-dayton-va-center-656012.html Did war vet kill self to make a statement? Man had been in VA emergency room earlier in the morning. By Lucas Sullivan and Margo Rutledge Kissell Staff Writers Updated 11:23 PM Friday, April 16, 2010 DAYTON — Jesse Charles Huff walked up to the Veterans Affairs Department’s Medical Center on Friday morning wearing… Read more »
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