La Ku’oko’a (Hawaiian Independence Day)

La Ku’oko’a (Hawaiian Independence Day) November 25, 2009 from 11am to 3pm University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Bachman Lawn (corner of University Ave and Dole St.), Honolulu, Hawaiʻi Hui Aloha ʻĀina Tuahine http://tuahine.wordpress.com/ Hawaiian Independence Day Faced with the problem of foreign encroachment of Hawaiian territory, His Hawaiian Majesty King Kamehameha III deemed it prudent… Read more »

USS City of Corpus Christi attack sub to relocate to Pearl Harbor for repairs

http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/20091118/BREAKING01/91118080/Submarine+to+be+relocated+to+Pearl+Harbor Wednesday, November 18, 2009 Submarine to be relocated to Pearl Harbor Advertiser Staff The USS City of Corpus Christi, an attack submarine, is being relocated from Guam to Pearl Harbor for repairs, the Pacific Daily News reported. The move was announced by Rep. Madeleine Bordallo, Guam’s delegate to Congress. The Navy is relocating the… Read more »

Korea Peace Day to feature film by North Korean refugee youth

Click here to download a pdf of the Korea Peace Day 2009 poster. For Immediate Release Contact: Joon Park (808) 382-5452 Soo Sun Choe soosunc@gmail.com Korea Peace Day Event to Premiere Film by North Korean Refugee Youth (Honolulu) A group of University of Hawaii students and faculty will be hosting a Korea Peace Day event… 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 »

‘Headhunters’, ‘Thanksgiving’ and other racist control myths

In the bad old days of colonialism, it was standard racist fare to depict indigenous peoples as ‘savages’, ‘primitive’ ‘headhunters’.   These days, not much has changed.  Westerners project their fears, anxieties and hatreds onto the image of the bloodthirsty, Muslim terrorist who decapitates his victims. But you almost never hear about 19th Century European or… Read more »

Navy abandons repair work on coral reef damaged by the USS Port Royal

The Navy fixed its heavily damaged Aegis missile cruiser, the USS Port Royal, which ran aground near the Honolulu Airport in February but is abandoning repair work on the coral reef damaged by the grounding. >><< http://www.starbulletin.com/news/breaking/70222032.html Navy suspends repair work on coral damaged by warship By Gregg K. Kakesako POSTED: 11:47 a.m. HST, Nov… Read more »

Dandelions: a poem about military rape

Dandelions Jerrica Escoto Click this link to hear Jerrica perform Dandelions David is 19 Doesn’t know anything else besides the hard exterior of his bullet proof vest And skills that those video games weren’t gangster enough to teach him. David has a single mother who couldn’t afford his higher education And a dream that fell… Read more »

APEC Summit to be held in Hawai’i in 2011

The East West Center issued a press release announcing that the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit will be held in Hawai’i in November 2011.  If past experience with the Asian Development Bank meeting in Honolulu is an indicator, we should expect that Honolulu will be intensely militarized to prevent protest and disruptions.  Earlier this… Read more »

Schofield (#1) and Kaneohe (#10) make top ten most dangerous military towns in the country

The Daily Finance blog reports that two Hawai’i military towns rank among the ten most dangerous in the country.  Schofield Barracks came out on top with a property crime rate that is 20 times the national average.   Kaneohe Marine Corps Base ranks number ten. >><< http://www.dailyfinance.com/2009/11/16/most-dangerous-military-towns/ High crimes: 10 military towns are among the country’s… Read more »

Yes We Can (But We Won’t): Obama, Hatoyama and Okinawa

http://www.counterpunch.org/lummis11132009.html November 13-15, 2009 Yes We Can (But We Won’t) Obama, Hatoyama and Okinawa By DOUGLAS LUMMIS Naha, Okinawa Walking distance from the US Consulate in Okinawa is a Starbucks coffee shop. My wife and I sometimes go there, because they let you sit at the tables and work, so long as you sometimes order… Read more »