http://ilind.net/2010/01/06/hearing-next-week-on-challenge-to-army-license-for-depleted-uranium/ Hearing next week on challenge to Army license for depleted uranium January 6th, 2010 The Atomic Safety and Licensing Board, an agency of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, will hold a hearing next week on challenges filed by four Hawaii residents to an Army license to possess depleted uranium at Schofield Barracks on Oahu and… Read more »
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Anthropology Association Condemns Work with U.S. Counterinsurgency
The following article discusses the American Anthropological Association’s condemnation of anthropologists collaborating with military missions such as the Human Terrain System. Applying anthropological knowledge to counterinsurgency missions is incompatible with the ethics of the profession. The Army public relations campaign regarding training in Makua valley is designed along the lines of counterinsurgency campaign. The point… Read more »
U.S. Congressional Representative Abercrombie resigns
Congressman Neil Abercrombie has resigned his office to concentrate on his gubernatorial campaign. Abercrombie has been a proponent of military construction projects in Hawai’i, especially new housing construction on Mokapu, site of the Kane’ohe Marine base. At the same time, he’s been critical of the Army’s continued use of Makua valley. Abercrombie has also advocated… Read more »
Army will use robots to clear munitions from ‘Ordnance Reef’
http://www.starbulletin.com/news/20091204_Army_enlists_robots_to_clear_munitions_near_Pokai_Bay.html Army enlists robots to clear munitions near Pokai Bay The Ordnance Reef project also will study the long-term effects on the area’s sea life By Gregg K. Kakesako POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Dec 04, 2009 The Army will undertake an unprecedented $2.5 million underwater robotics demonstration project beginning in October designed to remove or… Read more »
Revealing Hawaiian ‘secrets’, facilitating Hawaiian acquiescence
In July 2009, Chinook helicopters whisked a group of Kanaka Maoli leaders to Makua valley, purportedly to visit cultural sites and gain an understanding of the Army’s cultural preservation efforts. As the choppers descended on the valley from the sea, you could imagine Wagner’s Ride of the Valkyries over the signature slow, dull thud of… Read more »
Judge Orders Army to Disclose Impacts on Sacred Hawaiian Valley
http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/nov2009/2009-11-22-091.asp Judge Orders Army to Disclose Impacts on Sacred Hawaiian Valley HONOLULU, Hawaii, November 22, 2009 (ENS) – A federal judge in Honolulu has ruled that the U.S. Army is obliged to give the community meaningful information on how military training at Makua Military Reservation on Oahu could damage native Hawaiian cultural sites and contaminate… Read more »
Hannemann says Inouye asked him to run for governor
In the last election, when Mayor Hannemann claimed victory in his reelection bid, Senator Inouye stood beside him on TV and publicly congratulated him. Many took this as a sign that Inouye had anointed Hannemann as his successor. There were already signs that Inouye and US Representative Abercrombie were divided on certain issues, of note… Read more »
New Law Limits Military use of Open Burn Pits
Doug from Seacoast Anti-Pollution League in Portsmouth, New Hampshire sent a post to the Military Toxics Project listserve about a new law to limit the military use of open burn pits overseas. However, as Doug notes the law “Doesn’t cover domestic bases, nor everything we’d want left unburned, but DoD has to develop a plan… Read more »
Women’s Vigil for Peace and Solidarity
In Solidarity with the 7th International Network of Women against Militarism (INWAM) Meeting: Guahan Hafa Adai, my name is Angela T. Hoppe-Cruz. I am a Chamoru woman born and raised on the island of Guahan, now residing in Makaha. The INWAM formed in the mid 1990’s in response to the rape of a young Okinawan… Read more »
Chain Reaction: Nuclear regulators hold hearings in the Islands after the Army’s depleted uranium problem is uncovered by chance
Joan Conrow wrote this excellent piece in the Honolulu Weekly about the Nuclear Regulatory Commission public meetings in Hawai’i to take comments on the Army’s application for a permit to “possess” nuclear material, in this case, Depleted Uranium (DU), since they don’t intend to clean up the DU that contaminates O’ahu and Hawai’i island. >><<… Read more »
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