PRESS RELEASE Cory Harden PO Box 10265, Hilo, Hawai’i 96721 808-968-8965 mh@interpac.net For immediate release January 8, 2010, Hilo, Hawai’i Attachment: Memorandum and Order, January 7, 2010, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Atomic Safety and Licensing Board DEPLETED URANIUM PROCEEDING, JANUARY 13, HILO, HAWAI’I A legal proceeding on an Army application for a depleted uranium (DU) license… Read more »
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Lind: Hearing next week on challenge to Army license for depleted uranium
http://ilind.net/2010/01/06/hearing-next-week-on-challenge-to-army-license-for-depleted-uranium/ Hearing next week on challenge to Army license for depleted uranium January 6th, 2010 The Atomic Safety and Licensing Board, an agency of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, will hold a hearing next week on challenges filed by four Hawaii residents to an Army license to possess depleted uranium at Schofield Barracks on Oahu and… Read more »
Air Force telescope faces delays
According the Hawaii Tribune Herald, the Air Force Pan-STARRS telescope proposed to be built on the sacred mountain Mauna Kea has been delayed, in part by cost overruns. The article states: When complete, Pan-STARRS will scan the heavens for “near-Earth objects,” comets and asteroids that pose an impact threat to Earth. The Air Force funding… Read more »
Conversion of Kulani Prison to military school delayed
Governor Lingle suddenly and unexpectedly closed Kulani Prison, one of the most successful offender treatment programs in Hawai’i. Why? She said it was to save money. She then said that the facility would be turned over to the Hawaii National Guard to convert it into a Youth Challenge military school. However, this article reports that… Read more »
Army closes Pohakuloa to hunting due to ‘vandalism’
The Army recently closed the Pohakuloa training area closed to hunting due to “vandalism, theft and destruction of government property.” That’s a good one! The Army takes the land by fiat, fires all manner of weapons, including depleted uranium, then accuses hunters of ‘vandalism’. >><< http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/20091218/BREAKING01/91218035/Pohakuloa+Training+Area+closed+to+hunting Updated at 1:22 p.m., Friday, December 18, 2009 Pohakuloa… Read more »
Public Hearings on Saddle Road project near Pohakuloa Training Area
Action alert from Jim Albertini on Hawai’i Island: Aloha Kakou, REMINDER There are two public hearings this week for the Saddle Rd. project on the west side of Pohakuloa Training Area (PTA) through or around the military’s newly acquires 24,0000-acre Keamuku area from the 42 mile marker to the upper Rd to Kona. As part… Read more »
VIDEO: Ohana Hoopakele wants puuhonua at Kulani
Watch video of the ‘Ohana Ho’opakele press conference on Hawai’i island against the closing and militarization of Kulani prison and for a pu’uhonua (place of refuge and healing). http://www.bigislandvideonews.com/2009/11november/20091120kulani.htm VIDEO: Ohana Hoopakele wants puuhonua at Kulani Ohana Hoopakele holds press conference November 20, 2009 – Hilo, Hawaii VIDEO by David Corrigan As the sun sets… Read more »
Will former Kulani prison site become a military training facility?
Call to Action by Community Alliance on Prisons (CAP) Background: Governor Lingle ordered the closure of Kulani Prison and its conversion to a Youth Challenge facility, a school run by the military. The State of Hawai’i Board of Land and Natural Resources (BLNR) meeting will be on THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2009 9:00 A.M. KALANIMOKU BUILDING… Read more »
Report on protest at Hilo Veteran’s Parade
Aloha kakou, About 40-50 people in total turned out, during the nearly 3 and l/2 hour protest at today’s Hilo Veterans Parade. The protest focus was the U.S. illegal wars of aggression and occupation in Iraq and Afghanistan and the military including vehicles from Pohakuloa Training Area (PTA) recently returned from Iraq. Among those present… Read more »
Hilo groups will protest Strykers on parade
According to the Honolulu Advertiser article Strykers will be included in the Hilo Veterans parade: Organizers hoped to keep word of the vehicles a secret from peace activists like Jim Albertini of the Malu Aina Center for Non-Violent Education and Action, in an attempt to ward off conflict. Albertini found out anyway, and on Sunday… Read more »
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