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 »
Soldier dies in motorcycle crash in Waipahu
http://www.starbulletin.com/news/breaking/90957439.html Soldier dies in motorcycle crash in Waipahu By Star-Bulletin Staff POSTED: 08:13 a.m. HST, Apr 15, 2010 Speed may have been a factor in a motorcycle crash that killed a U.S. Army soldier on Farrington Highway near Fort Weaver Road last night, police said. The crash happened at about 9:56 p.m. on Farrington Highway… Read more »
Tokunoshima residents reject idea of a new U.S. air base
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/20100414TDY03T01.htm Tokunoshima averse to Futenma / Local mayors lead opposition to relocating U.S. air station to Kagoshima island Yoshifumi Sugita / Yomiuri Shimbun Staff Writer Seen from a company jet about two hours out of Haneda Airport, Tokunoshima island in Kagoshima Prefecture looked bigger than I expected. In the northern part of the island lies… Read more »
Hatoyama’s Futenma waffling irks Guam
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20100413f2.html Tuesday, April 13, 2010 Hatoyama’s Futenma waffling irks Guam Islanders in limbo, no say on plans for their fate made from afar By KAKUMI KOBAYASHI and HIDENORI TAJIMA Kyodo News HAGATNA, Guam — Guam has been frustrated by the indecision of Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama over the stalled plan to relocate U.S. Marines from… Read more »
More GIs committed suicide than were killed in combat
http://www.congress.org/news/2009/11/25/rising_military_suicides Rising military suicides The pace is faster than combat deaths in Iraq or Afghanistan. By John Donnelly More U.S. military personnel have taken their own lives so far in 2009 than have been killed in either the Afghanistan or Iraq wars this year, according to a Congressional Quarterly compilation of the latest statistics from… Read more »
More on the navy missile frigate at a hula festival
Here’s Navy propaganda about the USS Crommelin guided missile frigate participation in the Merrie Monarch hula festival. I hadn’t realized that navy ships have been making port calls during the festival for 47 years! What does a guided missile ship have to do with hula, Kanaka Maoli spirituality and cultural renaissance? Nothing really. It’s just… Read more »
A Dirty Little Secret of Capitalism: The U.S. Military Is One of the World’s Largest Polluters
http://revcom.us/a/199/military-en.html A Dirty Little Secret of Capitalism: The U.S. Military Is One of the World’s Largest Polluters The U.S. military is not only the main enforcer of the system that is plundering the earth’s environment and its people—it is also the single largest institutional consumer of oil in the world. And the U.S. military and… Read more »
Navy funding may help convert Maui sugar plantation to biofuel production, and create new water fight
Sugar plantations were the biggest source of water theft in Hawai’i around 1900s, with massive tunnels siphoning off water to the dryer sugar growing areas of the islands from the traditional kalo (taro) producing areas. In Maui the kalo farmers from East Maui have been engaged in an epic legal struggle with sugar companies over… Read more »
EARTH DAY 2010 Bay Area Groups Demand Halt Of Military Build-up in Guam: Environmentally Destructive & Costly
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact Person: Erica Benton (510)-928-8247, Rev. Deborah Lee (415) 297-8222 Press Conference & Earth Day Action: Bay Area Organizations, Scholars and Environmentalists Demand Halt of Military Build-up in Guam: Environmentally Destructive and Costly Date: Thursday, April 22, 2010 Time: 10:30 am Location: St. Patrick’s Church, 756 Mission Street, San Francisco Features: Music,… Read more »
As Kyrgyz victims mourn, U.S. military flights resume, but fate of Manas air base is uncertain
http://wire.antiwar.com/2010/04/09/kyrgyz-victims-mourned-us-base-fate-on-hold-4/ Kyrgyz victims mourned, US base fate on hold Kyrgyz victims mourned, interim leader says US air base fate not a top priority for new govt YURAS KARMANAU AP News Apr 09, 2010 13:40 EDT Thousands of grieving, angry mourners flooded the capital’s main square Friday to honor victims of Kyrgyzstan’s revolt — with many… Read more »
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