{"id":10480,"date":"2012-06-14T09:43:40","date_gmt":"2012-06-14T18:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/?p=10480"},"modified":"2012-06-14T09:43:40","modified_gmt":"2012-06-14T18:13:40","slug":"fortress-oahu-some-people-get-paid-but-who%e2%80%99s-paying-the-price","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/?p=10480","title":{"rendered":"Fortress Oahu: “Some people get paid, but who\u2019s paying the price”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Joan Conrow wrote a feature story in the Honolulu Weekly <\/a>critically examining the military’s impacts in Hawai’i. Here’s a snippet:<\/p>\n

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Fortress Oahu<\/h2>\n
by Joan Conrow | May 23, 2012<\/div>\n
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With roots planted in the 1893 overthrow of Queen Liliuokalani and a presence that extends through the entire archipelago, the military\u2019s influence in Hawaii is surpassed only by tourism.<\/p>\n

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The military controls some 236,000 acres throughout the state, including 25 percent of the land mass of Oahu, and thousands of square miles of surrounding airspace and sea. Yet as a branch of the federal government, the Department of Defense (DoD) operates in the Islands with little public oversight and virtual impunity, except when national environmental laws come into play.<\/p>\n

Notwithstanding, it\u2019s burned up native forests, dumped hazardous materials into the ocean and killed protected native species. It\u2019s rendered land unusable with its unexploded ordinance, disrupted neighborhoods with its noise, dropped nearly every bomb known to man on the island of Kahoolawe. It\u2019s unearthed ancient burials, launched rockets from sacred dunes, shut off public access mauka and makai. And in the course of a century, it\u2019s transformed Waimomi, once the food basket for Oahu, into Pearl Harbor, a giant Superfund complex comprising at least 749 contaminated sites.<\/p>\n

So why do our people, and politicians, allow the militarly to stay, aside from the fact that it is well-armed and deeply entrenched here?<\/p>\n

Money is the answer most often given. DoD expenditures in Hawaii totaled some $6.5 billion in 2009 \u2014 about 9 percent of the state\u2019s gross domestic product.<\/p>\n

\u201cYes, some people get paid, but who\u2019s paying the price of that?\u201d counters Kyle Kajihiro of Hawaii Peace and Justice, a non-profit organization. \u201cThere are losers in this, and unfortunately, it\u2019s often native people,\u201d he adds, citing damage to ecology and cultural sites, and Hawaii\u2019s being perceived as \u201cam accessory to the militarization that extends from our shores.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Joan Conrow wrote a feature story in the Honolulu Weekly critically examining the military’s impacts in Hawai’i. Here’s a snippet: Fortress Oahu by Joan Conrow | May 23, 2012 Cover With roots planted in the 1893 overthrow of Queen Liliuokalani and a presence that extends through the entire archipelago, the military\u2019s influence in Hawaii is … <\/p>\n

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