The Honolulu Star Advertiser reports: A 25-year-old man participating in a “paintball exercise” at Bellows Air Force Station in Waimanalo collapsed in cardiac arrest Saturday afternoon and later died at a hospital, police said. There were no apparent signs of foul play, police said. The case is being handled by the Naval Criminal Investigative Service,… Read more »
Monthly Archives: July 2011
Kauai tourist stumbles across spent smoke grenade on beach
The Honolulu Star Advertiser reports that a touris on Kauʻi found a spent smoke grenade on Kealia Beach this morning. Officers from the Kauai Police Department and an explosive specialist from the Transportation Security Administration examined the grenade and determined that it was likely spent, as indicated by its missing pin and a hole on… Read more »
Pearl Harbor Restoration Advisory Board Meeting, July 12, 2011
The next Pearl Harbor Restoration Advisory Board (RAB) meeting will be held at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, July 12, 2011 at the Holomua Elementary School Cafeteria, 911561 Keaunui Drive, ʻEwa Beach. On the agenda: Draft Engineering Evaluation/Cost Analysis for Substation P, Kalaeloa Draft Final Remedial Investigation for West Loch 4th Street Coral Pit Disposal Area… Read more »
Army to test underwater robots for removal of unexploded ordnance off Waiʻanae
The Honolulu Star Advertiser reports that Army demonstrated a remote-controlled underwater robot it will test for possible use to remove unexploded munitions off the Waiʻanae coast at a location known as “ordnance reef”. The Army said it will begin a 21-day trial run Monday of a remote-controlled submersible designed to remove discarded military munitions from… Read more »
Hawai`i Island: A Global Center for Peace, Justice and Conflict Resolution
Hawaiʻi Island artist and activist Tomas Belsky writes in “Hawai`i Island: A Global Center for Peace, Justice and Conflict Resolution” that the magnificent Moku o Keawe can become a global center for peace and justice rather than a one-stop shop for military training, as Governor Abercrombie proposes: I have always envisioned Hawaii as the best place… Read more »
The Invisible Army: trafficked humans make the war machine go
Sarah Stillman wrote an excellent article in the New Yorker about the “invisible army” of foreign workers or “third-country nationals” (TCNs) staffing U.S. military bases in war zones. She reports that “armed security personnel account for only about sixteen per cent of the over-all contracting force. The vast majority—more than sixty per cent of the… Read more »
Agent Orange in Korea
http://www.fpif.org/articles/agent_orange_in_korea Agent Orange in Korea By Christine Ahn and Gwyn Kirk, July 7, 2011 In May, three former U.S. soldiers admitted to dumping hundreds of barrels of chemical substances, including Agent Orange, at Camp Carroll in South Korea in 1978. This explosive news was a harsh reminder to South Koreans of the high costs and… Read more »
“A lot of the guys who had bad discharges from the military just ended up staying here”
The Hawaii Reporter published an article about the challenges of helping Hawai’i’s homeless military population. It is not news that a large percentage of the homeless in any given place are former military personnel. Some of this population suffers from PTSD and/or substance abuse issues. Here are some facts reported in the article: On Oahu,… Read more »
Relief and Recovery in Japan: U.S. Should Decline Monies from Japan’s “Sympathy Budget” and End Military Dependence Globally
http://www.genuinesecurity.org/actions/notosympathybudget.html Press Statement Contact: IWNAM Secretariat, genuinesecurity [at] lists.riseup.net April 11, 2011 Relief and Recovery in Japan: U.S. Should Decline Monies from Japan’s “Sympathy Budget” and End Military Dependence Globally The International Women’s Network Against Militarism (IWNAM) demands that the U.S. and Japanese governments stop spending U.S. and Japanese taxpayer monies for the upkeep of… Read more »
The Politics of Militarization and Corporatization in Higher Education
The military in Hawai’i is a destructive shape-shifting kupua. In The Politics of Militarization and Corporatization in Higher Education, Henry Giroux discusses the creeping militarization of U.S. society and its costs and consequences. In Hawaiʻi we have had a preview of this process with the intense militarization that his everywhere, but hidden in plain… Read more »
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