The Superferry Chronicles – Book Launch Celebrations with authors Koohan Paik and Jerry Mander Monday, Jan 12, 2009 – Kailua-Kona, Hawai’i Island 6:30 p.m. – Kona Outdoor Circle, 76-6280 Kuakini Highway with Mayumi Oda, Dr. Lee Tepley, and Jeff Sacher. Contact Chelsea Haworth, 808-443-9984. Tuesday, Jan 13, 2009 – Hilo, Hawai’i Island 6:00 p.m. –… Read more »
Posts Tagged: Movements and Resistance
The US Has 761 Military Bases Across the Planet, and We Simply Never Talk About It
The US Has 761 Military Bases Across the Planet, and We Simply Never Talk About It By Tom Engelhardt, Tomdispatch.com Posted on September 8, 2008, Printed on December 26, 2008 http://www.alternet.org/story/97913/ AlterNet is resurfacing some of the best and most popular articles published in 2008 as the year comes to a close. First, Tom Engelhardt’s… Read more »
The Legacy of the GI Coffeehouses
Here’s a thought-provoking analysis of the conditions that gave rise to the GI resistance movement in the 1960s and its meaning for the new GI resistance movement today. Source: http://www.differentdrummercafe.org/gimovement.html Did the GI Movement End the Vietnam War? And What is the real legacy of the GI Coffeehouses? By David Zeiger ft drum soldiersOver the… Read more »
Auditor slams state on Superferry
The state auditor just issued its report on the state’s handling of the Hawaii Superferry debacle. It basically confirms the arguments made by opponents of the Superferry that the special legislation “Act 2” that exempted the Superferry from state environmental laws so it could sail before completing a court ordered environmental impact statement constituted legislation… Read more »
Case grows against sex assailant
Case grows against sex assailant DNA links Mark Heath to an unsolved crime that occurred in 2007 By Gene Park POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Dec 18, 2008 A man who has already pleaded guilty to burglary and sexual assault at the University of Hawaii at Manoa pleaded no contest yesterday to another sexual assault case…. Read more »
The Storm of US Militarization Hits Guam
The Storm of US Militarization hits Guam Seventh Session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues – April 2008 – New York, NY Item # 6 Topic: Pacific Presenter: Julian Aguon Collective Intervention of the Chamoru Nation and Affiliated Indigenous Chamoru Organizations; Society for Threatened Peoples International (ECOSOC); CORE (ECOSOC); Western Shoshone Defense… Read more »
Government pays family $800,000 over Tripler suicide
November 5, 2008 Government pays family $800,000 over Tripler suicide Advertiser Staff The federal government has paid $800,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by the family of a suicidal Air Force veteran who jumped to his death from Tripler Army Medical Center after his pleas to be admitted went unheeded, the family’s attorney said today…. Read more »
One in seven female soldiers sexually harassed or assaulted
http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-harass28-2008oct28,0,7238888.story Sexual abuse rates of deployed female soldiers detailed in study One in seven asked by the VA said they had been harassed or assaulted during their military service. They are more likely to suffer from PTSD and substance abuse than others. By Thomas H. Maugh II October 28, 2008 One in seven female soldiers… Read more »
McCain Picks Tailhook Sexual Harassment Scandal Vet To Oversee Transition
John Lehman, owner and president of Hawaii Superferry, neocon affiliate of the Project for the New American Century, participated in Tailhook sex assault scandal while Sec. of Navy under Reagan. >><< http://www.motherjones.com/mojoblog/archives/2008/10/10403_mccain_lehman_transition_tailhook.html McCain Picks Tailhook Sexual Harassment Scandal Vet To Oversee Transition On October 29, 1991, Senator John McCain went to the floor of the… Read more »
Nuclear survivors of Rongelap
http://counterpunch.org/johnston11212008.html Weekend Edition November 21 / 23, 2008 The Voices of Rongelap Cautionary Tales From a Nuclear War Zone By BARBARA ROSE JOHNSTON and HOLLY M. BARKER John Anjain, Alab of Rongelap, Marshall Islands: Early in the morning of March 1, 1954, sometime around five or six o’clock, American planes dropped a hydrogen bomb on… Read more »
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