Peace in the Pacific Stop missile testing! US plans test missile launch from California to the Marshall Islands on Sept 21, World Peace Day Route of Sept 21 ICBM test launch Join a discussion of the militarization of the Pacific with guest speaker MacGregor Eddy of the Global Network against Weapons and Nuclear Power Space,… Read more »
Posts Tagged: Movements and Resistance
Peace Prizes for War Presidents, Missile Tests on Day of Peace
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/09/06-0 Published on Tuesday, September 6, 2011 by CommonDreams.org Peace Prizes for War Presidents, Missile Tests on Day of Peace Escalation of US offensive missile strategy — launching an ICBM Missile across the Pacific on World Peace Day by Ann Wright The U.S. missile ‘defense” system is simply not defensive. It is offensive in every… Read more »
Connecting the Aegis dots between Jeju, Okinawa, Guam, Hawai’i
Koohan Paik, co-author of the Superferry Chronicles and member of the Kaua’i Alliance for Peace and Social Justice wrote an excellent op ed in the Garden Island newspaper connecting the dots between the military expansion at the Pacific Missile Range Facility on Kaua’i, the struggle to stop a naval base in Jeju, South Korea, and… Read more »
Message from the International Women’s Network Against Militarism to the peoples movement for No Naval Base on Jeju!
Message from the International Women’s Network Against Militarism to the peoples movement for No Naval Base on Jeju! September 1, 2011 Dear friends in the struggle against US military expansion at Jeju Island We women from Okinawa, mainland Japan, the Philippines, Marshall Islands, Guam, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Australia and west-coast USA send our greetings in… Read more »
Critical perspectives on the U.S.-led NATO war on Libya
The western media has hyped the rebels’ “victory” in the war in Libya. But it’s impossible to know what is really going on if you only get the mainstream media. Reports are trickling out from independent journalists that contradict the disinformation being spread by mainstream media. Franklin Lamb reports in Countercurrents.org from Tripoli: NATO is… Read more »
Report from the “Audacity of Hope” U.S. Boat to Gaza – Col. (Ret.) Ann Wright and Dr. Carol Murry
Speakers: Col. (Ret.) Ann Wright & Dr. Carol Murry OʻAHU Sunday, August 28, 2011 3:00 – 6:00pm Revolution Books Ann Wright and Carol Murry will focus on their experiences aboard “The Audacity of Hope”, which was prevented from sailing to Gaza by Greece, Israel and the U.S. Ann is also just returning from Jeju Island…… Read more »
All missile defense programs are part of the same system
Bruce Gagnon posted a link to this article about the U.S. missile defense program. As he points out, the article explains how all missile defense systems are “part of the same network of systems.” The proposed South Korean naval base in Jeju island, where islanders are waging a fierce struggle to oppose the base, is… Read more »
URGENT: Police violence escalating against Jeju protesters
Activists and media persons on the ground in Jeju are reporting that the mayor Kang of Gangjeong village and several others have been arrested at the protest site against the proposed naval base. Riot police have descended on the protest sites. A Facebook post http://www.facebook.com/SaveJeju 10:45pm HST: Gangjeong village Mayor Kang Dong-Kyun is being held inside… Read more »
Kaneʻohe Marine kills self after hazing by fellow Marines
Marine Times reports: One Marine faces court-martial and another faces non-judicial punishment for allegedly hazing a lance corporal who killed himself in Afghanistan, according to a military investigation report obtained by Marine Corps Times. Lance Cpl. Harry Lew, 21, killed himself with a two- or three-round burst from an M249 Squad Automatic Weapon early April… Read more »
Will Jeju become another ‘Pearl Harbor’?
There have been several articles about Jeju referencing the cost of militarization and war to Hawai’i and Ke Awalau o Pu’uloa (Pearl Harbor). One letter to the editor published in the Jeju Weekly states: An American Jeju? Sunday, August 14, 2011, 03:15:11 To the editor, Jeju Island, fondly referred to as “Korea’s Hawaii,” has more… Read more »
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