Sugar plantations were the biggest source of water theft in Hawai’i around 1900s, with massive tunnels siphoning off water to the dryer sugar growing areas of the islands from the traditional kalo (taro) producing areas. In Maui the kalo farmers from East Maui have been engaged in an epic legal struggle with sugar companies over… Read more »
Monthly Archives: April 2010
EARTH DAY 2010 Bay Area Groups Demand Halt Of Military Build-up in Guam: Environmentally Destructive & Costly
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact Person: Erica Benton (510)-928-8247, Rev. Deborah Lee (415) 297-8222 Press Conference & Earth Day Action: Bay Area Organizations, Scholars and Environmentalists Demand Halt of Military Build-up in Guam: Environmentally Destructive and Costly Date: Thursday, April 22, 2010 Time: 10:30 am Location: St. Patrick’s Church, 756 Mission Street, San Francisco Features: Music,… Read more »
As Kyrgyz victims mourn, U.S. military flights resume, but fate of Manas air base is uncertain
http://wire.antiwar.com/2010/04/09/kyrgyz-victims-mourned-us-base-fate-on-hold-4/ Kyrgyz victims mourned, US base fate on hold Kyrgyz victims mourned, interim leader says US air base fate not a top priority for new govt YURAS KARMANAU AP News Apr 09, 2010 13:40 EDT Thousands of grieving, angry mourners flooded the capital’s main square Friday to honor victims of Kyrgyzstan’s revolt — with many… Read more »
‘As I watch The Footage, Anger Calcifies In My Heart’
http://www.countercurrents.org/zangana100410.htm ‘As I watch The Footage, Anger Calcifies In My Heart’ By Haifa Zangana 10 April, 2010 The Guardian A novelist and former prisoner of Saddam Hussein’s regime gives her reaction to the Wikileaks Iraq video I know the area where this massacre was committed. It is a crowded working-class area, a place where it… Read more »
At the Geopolitical Crossroads of China and Russia: Kyrgyzstan And The Battle For Central Asia
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=18547 At the Geopolitical Crossroads of China and Russia: Kyrgyzstan And The Battle For Central Asia by Rick Rozoff Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev was deposed five years after and in the same manner as he came to power, in a bloody uprising. Elected president two months after the so-called Tulip Revolution of 2005 he helped… Read more »
Today! Save Our Schools Rally to End the Furloughs
Save Our Schools will hold a rally today and round-the-clock vigil at the Governor’s mansion demanding that Governor Linda Lingle end the furloughs of Hawai’i’s public schools. Event: Round-the-Clock Vigil at Governor’s Mansion What: Rally Start Time: Today, April 10 at 12:00pm End Time: Monday, April 12 at 7:45am Where: Washington Place (across the capitol)… Read more »
Occupied Washington, DC
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/04/10-1 Occupied Washington, DC by Stephanie Westbrook As a visitor to our nation’s capital, I cannot tell you how disconcerting it is to step off the metro and find yourself face to face with a F-35 fighter jet. Where you would normally expect to find ads for cell phones or museum exhibitions, Washington’s subway, the… Read more »
Parents given citations for sit-in protest at Governor’s office
Costs of war Hawai’i’s Governor Linda Lingle instigated “furlough fridays” to cut the state budget, making Hawai’i the laughing stock of the nation with the fewest number of instructional days for public schools. Save Our Schools, a group organized by parents and children to fight for public education staged a sit-in in the Governor’s office… Read more »
Abolition: The Only Path to Nuclear Security
http://www.truthout.org/abolition-the-only-path-nuclear-security58414 Abolition: The Only Path to Nuclear Security Thursday 08 April 2010 by: Dr. Joseph Gerson, t r u t h o u t | Report (Image: Jared Rodriguez / t r u t h o u t; Adapted: Br3nda, Eric M Martin) In Prague, President Obama signed the modest START 1 Follow On Treaty,… Read more »
Move Troops Back to U.S.
http://www.guampdn.com/article/20100409/OPINION02/4090325/Author-Move-troops-back-to-U.S Guam Pacific Daily News Author: Move Troops Back to U.S. By Doloris Cogan • April 9, 2010 Guam book for Obama: Doloris Cogan, author of “We Fought the Navy and Won: Guam’s Quest for Democracy,” gives President Obama, then a U.S. senator, a copy of her book during a campaign stop in Indiana. (Photo… Read more »
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