Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty Conference 2010 NYC by: Melvin Won Pat-Borja, Guahan Coalition for Peace and Justice/We Are Guahan During a congressional hearing on the Guam military buildup in early April, US Representative Hank Johnson said that he feared the Military Relocation on Guam would cause our tiny island to capsize and sink. The comment, though… Read more »
Posts Tagged: Movements and Resistance
U.S. Bases in Colombia Rattle the Region
http://www.colombianobases.org/index.php/news/1-aca/64-us-bases-in-colombia-rattle-the-region U.S. Bases in Colombia Rattle the Region By Benjamin Dangl, March 2010 issue On the shores of the Magdalena River, in a lush green valley dotted with cattle ranches and farms, sits the Palanquero military base, an outpost equipped with Colombia’s longest runway, housing for 2,000 troops, a theater, a supermarket, and a casino…. Read more »
The Struggle against US bases in Korea – for Denuclearization and Peace
http://www.spark946.org/bugsboard/index.php?BBS=eng_1&action=viewForm&uid=64&page=1 The Struggle against US bases in Korea – for Denuclearization and Peace May 1, 2010 Oh Hye-ran, Solidarity for Peace and Reunification of Korea (SPARK) Korea-U.S. Alliance – Obstacle to Peace In July 1953, only 2 months after they signed the “Korean War Armistice Agreement,” South Korea and the United States entered into an… Read more »
Truth about the N. Korean nuclear issue and the key to the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula
Solidarity for Peace and Reunification of Korea (SPARK) presentation May 5, 2010, a Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty side event: Truth about the N. Korean nuclear issue and the key to the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula 1. The reality of the US nuclear war threat against the DPRK (Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea, i.e. North Korea)… Read more »
Chalmers Johnson: ‘Another battle of Okinawa’
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-johnson-20100506,0,4706050.story Another battle of Okinawa Despite protests, the U.S. insists on going ahead with plans for a new military base on the island. By Chalmers Johnson May 6, 2010 The United States is on the verge of permanently damaging its alliance with Japan in a dispute over a military base in Okinawa. This island prefecture… Read more »
‘We will stand up for a new fight’
Mahalo to Makiko SATO for translating the following message from Hiroshi ASHITOMI, one of the leaders in the anti-bases movement in Okinawa. Ashitomi-san visited Hawai’i at the invitation of the Hawai’i Okianwa Alliance to build support for the Henoko struggle. >><< Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2010 11:32 AM Subject: 安次富浩さんからの談話 ,（辺野古浜通信） ・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・ 鳩山の裏切り（公約違反）に対して、絶望しない。 金持ちボンボンの鳩山に失望したけれど わたしたちは、子どもたちのため、この海を守る夢があります。 Though… Read more »
S. Korea Aegis destroyer scheduled to train at RIMPAC, related to Jeju struggle
Below is an old article about South Korea testing its Aegis destroyer in Hawai’i during the RIMPAC exercises this summer. Bruce Gagnon wrote this about the article: This is an indication that the South Korean Navy is now being fully integrated into the command structure of the U.S. Navy and that the Aegis destroyers that… Read more »
Does Guam have an identity crisis?
This article on the struggle to recover Chamoru culture and identity in Guahan came across as patronizing to me. Is it an identity crisis in Guam/Guahan? It’s more like colonial trauma caused by 500 years of occupation and oppression by three different colonizers. Occupation creates schizophrenia in a people. With this perspective, the survival and… Read more »
Environmental Protection of Bases?
From Foreign Policy In Focus: http://www.fpif.org/articles/environmental_protectionof_bases Environmental Protection of Bases? By David Vine. Edited by John Feffer, April 22, 2010 Just weeks before today’s Earth Day, and for the second time in little more than a year, environmental groups have teamed with governments to create massive new marine protection areas across wide swaths of the… Read more »
Hatoyama betrays Okinawa – Japan to relocate Futenma to Henoko
Okinawans say “No!” Japanese Prime Minister Hatoyama has betrayed the Okinawan people. After months of waffling, he decides to go with the original plan to relocate Futenma base to Henoko and wants to “apologize” to the Okinawan people and asked them to “bear the burden”. Satoko Norimatsu who writes the Peace Philosopy Blog posted the… Read more »
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