Photos: Jamie Oshiro, Hawai’i Okinawa Alliance Yesterday, in solidarity with the 90,000+ Okinawans who rallied against U.S. military bases in Okinawa, the Hawai’i-Okinawa Alliance (HOA), the American Friends Service Committee – Hawai’i and DMZ-Hawai’i / Aloha ‘Aina organized a vigil in front of the Japanese Consulate in Honolulu. Approximately 40 people held signs and candles… Read more »
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National Guard member convicted of electronic enticement of a child
This is the conclusion of the child enticement case by a Hawaii National Guardsmen. >><< http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/Global/story.asp?S=12378617 Fairness of mandatory prison term for child enticement questioned Posted: Apr 26, 2010 12:32 PM Updated: Apr 26, 2010 6:40 PM By Minna Sugimoto – bio | email HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) – Family and friends of a Hawaii Air National… Read more »
Insular Empire “Red Pill Tour”
Vanessa Warheit, director of the film Insular Empire: America in the Mariana Islands just posted a new entry about her visit to Hawai’i and what she has dubbed the “Red Pill Tour”, a reference to the scene in The Matrix when Neo takes the red pill that awakens him to the violent and oppressive reality… Read more »
Guam Senator Cruz demands demands radiation tests for Apra harbor
Senator B.J. Cruz from Guam is demanding that the Environmental Protection Agency require the U.S. military to test for radiation contamination be conducted in Apra Harbor before dredging and dumping of the sediment is approved. He is right to demand these studies. It is widely known that U.S. navy ships have leaked radioactive water in… Read more »
U.S. Military Bases and Funshi (Feng Shui)
ANTHROPOLOGY COLLOQUIUM SERIES U.S. Military Bases and Funshi (Feng Shui): The Anti-Base Movement and Community Development in Yomitan, Okinawa Tomoaki Hara Associate Professor of Anthropology, Shizuoka University, Japan Thursday, April 22nd at 3:00 pm, in Crawford Hall 115 The 1997 city master plan of Yomitan Village, Okinawa, is unique in all of Japan in that… Read more »
Hawaii Okinawa Alliance: Candlelight Peace Vigil for Okinawa
Sunset Candlelight Peace Vigil for Okinawa Japanese Consulate Honolulu Nu`uanu Avenue & Kuakini, Sunday, April 25, 2010, 6pm This Sunday in Okinawa, as well as throughout Japan, Washington, D.C. and here in O`ahu, hundreds of thousands of supporters of demilitarizing Okinawa will be rallying to close down Futenma Marine Corps Airstation in the middle of… Read more »
Barbers Point closure and conversion ‘one of the worst examples’
The closure and redevelopment of Barbers Point Naval Air Station was one of the “worst examples of reusing a shuttered military installation.” It’s almost as if someone wanted the base realignment to fail. A successful conversion would have generated momentum for the closure of more military bases. All bases were closed in the San Francisco… Read more »
800 gallons of sewage spills into Pearl Harbor
http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/20100417/BREAKING01/100417032/800+gallons+of+sewage+spills+into+Pearl+Harbor Updated at 2:03 p.m., Saturday, April 17, 2010 800 gallons of sewage spills into Pearl Harbor Advertiser Staff An estimated 800 gallons of sewage has been discharged into a storm drain at Merry Point, Pearl Harbor today due to a broken pipe, according to the state’s Department of Health Clean Water Branch. The break… Read more »
Why is a closing Navy commissary being given away to a private company?
The Honolulu Advertiser reports that the Barbers Point Commissary is closing and that the property will be turned over to the private Ford Island Ventures. How does a private business get excess public assets? And who is Ford Island Ventures? Ford Island Ventures is a joint venture of Hunt Building Co. and Fluor Federal Services… Read more »
Rock the Boat 2: Concert and Festival for Reproductive and Environmental Justice
CEJE proudly presents the sequel to last year’s Rock The Boat Concert Hemenway Courtyard (Manoa Gardens) Saturday, April 24, 12:00 to 4:00 pm Free, Refreshments provided by Slow Food KCC Tabling by Community Organizations Performances by: Mahalohalo Kolingtang Ensemble, Kahuli, Talk to Your Music, Lyz Soto, Youth Speaks Hawai’i, Travis T, No’u Revilla, Kisha Borja-Kicho’cho’,… Read more »
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