Posts Tagged: Movements and Resistance

FTA!

Film Showing of FTA! UH Manoa Architecture Auditorium & Courtyard Thursday, March 19, 2009 6:30-7:30 Pre-film music, poetry and displays 7:30-9:00 Showing of FTA! What was the FTA? On November 25, 1971 5,000 people packed FTA Show at the Civic Auditorium in Honolulu. The show, featuring Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland, Rita Martinson, Country Joe McDonald,,… Read more »

Breaking News: Hawai’i Supreme Court Rules Against Superferry, Again

This is great news!  The Hawai’i Supreme Court ruled that Act 2, the special legislation that retroactively exempted the Hawai’i Superferry from state environmental protection laws, was unconstitutional.  Perhaps this will be the end of the Superferry. Read the decision here. ===== http://www.starbulletin.com/news/bulletin/41333049.html Honolulu Star-Bulletin Breaking News POSTED: 11:12 a.m. HST, Mar 16, 2009 Hawaii… Read more »

Guam Residents Unhappy About Relocation of US Marines from Okinawa

Saturday, March 14, 2009 Guam Residents Unhappy About Relocation of US Marines from Okinawa By Akahata 3-14-09, 10:21 am Original source: Akahata (Japan) Residents of Guam are so reluctant to accept the US Marines to be stationed on the island of US territory in the Pacific, that the Guam governor would sign the ordinance passed… Read more »

Aidan Delgado Interviewed in the Hawaii Independent

The Peter Serafim did an interview with Aidan Delgado for the Hawaii Independent. Delgado is an Iraq war veteran and conscientious objector who will be speaking in Hawai’i this week. Here’s the intro to the article: Aidan Delgado grew up in Thailand and Egypt, where his father was a U. S. Foreign Service staffer. In… Read more »

Statement by National Campaign for Eradication of Crime by U.S.Troops in Korea on Osan Stabbing

Statement 11 March 2009 The US soldier in Korea suspected for attempted murder must be in custody by Korean Police in Pyeongtaek At dawn on Friday, 6th of March 2009, a US soldier in Korea stabbed a Filipino woman 18 times almost causing her to death. According to the press, the US soldier from Camp… Read more »

Leaked document reveals military knew Balad Air Base troops were exposed to toxic chemicals

Here’s another reason why, as the people of Vieques, Puerto Rico say “History does not allow us to trust what  the military says.”  Agent Orange.  Depleted Uranium. Project 112/SHAD.   Atomic and nuclear veterans.   Makua valley – Army was supposed to return the land 6 months after WWII.  Wahiawa and Pohakuloa – depleted uranium was discovered,… Read more »

Balad Air Base troops exposed to toxic smoke, military downplays health risks

Report cites low health risk from burn pits By Kelly Kennedy – Staff writer Posted : Wednesday Dec 24, 2008 16:46:03 EST The Army staff sergeant began running long distances when she was 7 years old. A born overachiever, she made E-6 in eight years in her job as a truck driver. She ran six-minute… Read more »

The Battle Over Bases

http://www.antiwar.com/orig/vine.php?articleid=14383 March 11, 2009 The Battle Over Bases by David Vine In 2003 and 2004, President George W. Bush announced his intention to initiate a major realignment and shrinkage of what his administration described as an economically wasteful and outdated U.S. overseas basing structure. The plan was to close more than a third of the… Read more »

Iraq War resister Aidan Delgado to speak

Download a pdf version of the announcement Friday, March 13, 7:30pm A Talk by Aidan Delgado, Conscientious Objector Church of the Crossroads Activist with Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW) and Buddhist Peace Fellowship (BPF) Aidan Delgado served in Iraq from April 1st, 2003 through April 1st, 2004. After spending six months in Nasiriyah in… Read more »

Call to Join Anti-NATO Protests in Strasbourg

Call for mobilization Demonstration April 4th in Strasbourg In not less than four weeks we will be non-violently and creatively protesting against Nato in Strasbourg. Until then there is much to do and organize. In order to send beautiful pictures of our protests in the City of Democracy and Peace to the citizens of the… Read more »