For Immediate Release Contact: Kyle Kajihiro 808-988-6266 kkajihiro@hawaiipeaceandjustice.org Peace Day Event Calls for Ending Missile Testing in the Pacific Hawai’i Peace and Justice (formerly the American Friends Service Committee Hawai’i Program) will sponsor a talk by a renowned peace activist to commemorate International Peace Day. MacGregor Eddy will speak about “Peace In… Read more »
Monthly Archives: September 2011
Hawaiʻi women’s action in solidarity with Jeju islanders
http://www.facebook.com/notes/womens-voices-women-speak/womens-voices-women-speak-stand-in-solidarity-with-jeju-island-activists/10150310281896460 Women’s Voices Women Speak Stand in Solidarity with Jeju Island Activists On Sept. 4, 2011, Women’s Voices Women Speak, Ann Wright, and a few friends gathered at the Korean Consulate of Hawai’i to hold a vigil in solidarity with peace activists on Jeju Island. This action was catalyzed by the current military and… Read more »
“Unfinished Business” – Twenty years since the Philippines kicked out U.S. bases, what is the Status of Forces?
The Interaksyon news website has an excellent two-part series entitled “Unfinished Business: Transforming the former U.S. military bases into zones of peace and development remains a challenge, 20 years after a historic Senate vote scrapped the PH-US bases treaty.” “Unfinished Business” by Joel C. Paredes begins: Veteran nationalist lawmaker Wigberto Tañada still vividly recalls when… Read more »
Peace in the Asia Pacific Conference, October 21-22, 2011, Washington D.C.
There will be an important conference about Peace in the Asia Pacific region, featuring leaders from Chinese government and civil society, peace movement leaders from Japan, Korea, Guam, Hawaiʻi and many leading scholars and activists. Ikaika Hussey from Hawai ʻi Peace and Justice and DMZ-Hawaiʻi / Aloha ʻĀina will be representing Hawaiʻi and speaking about… Read more »
WikiLeaks cables: US forces directly involved in Mindanao terror hunt
Activists and U.S. troops have been saying this for years: U.S. forces in Mindanao are involved in military operations, not merely training and advising. But recent cables released by Wikileaks confirm the extent that the State Department had knowledge of and was involved in the conspiracy to cover up this fact. And the cables advise… Read more »
Marine dies in motorcycle crash
From the Honolulu Star Advertiser: The Honolulu Medical Examiner’s Office has identified a Kaneohe Marine who died Sunday in a motorcycle crash in Aikahi Park as Brian Zuniga, 25, of Kaneohe. The medical examiner’s office said the cause of death was multiple blunt force injuries due to an accident. Zuniga died at Castle Medical Center… Read more »
Army Base on the Brink
Winston Ross wrote an eye-opening article in The Daily Beast about the human cost of America’s wars on the troops and their families: Back when Jonathan Gilbert was still in middle school, he attended his cousin’s graduation ceremony from the U.S. Army’s basic training, watching men in neatly pressed uniforms marching, saluting one another,… Read more »
U.S. military returns some land to Okinawans, other landowners refuse to renew leases for U.S. bases
The Ryukyu Shimpo reports that the U.S. returned Gimbaru Training Area to the local community: The United States military returned the Gimbaru Training Area to Kin Town and other owners, on July 31, 54 years after the land was appropriated for military use. Twenty-three hectares of a total area of 60 hectares were handed over… Read more »
Suicide of Hawaiʻi Marine raises issues of hazing, racial jokes
The Honolulu Star Advertiser reports that the hearing about the hazing and subsequent suicide of Lance Cpl. Harry Lew may have had racial overtones. Lew was Chinese American: Hazing and race in the Marine Corps were focused on Friday as a hearing at Marine Corps Base Hawaii continued to examine the suicide death of Lance… Read more »
Veteran arrested after threat to Biden
The Honolulu Star Advertiser reports: Federal authorities arrested a U.S. veteran Friday when he got off a plane in Honolulu from Thailand because he allegedly threatened to kill Vice President Joseph Biden earlier this year. Justin Alan Woodward sent an email on June 22 to the White House website threatening to “kill you myself,” referring… Read more »
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