On Earth Day, April 22, Famoksaiyan and Women for Genuine Security held a press conference and action at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Earth Day commemoration in protest of the military expansion in Guahan/Guam and the Mariana Islands. The action was also in solidarity with the massive demonstrations in Okinawa protesting U.S. military bases. Check… Read more »
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Hawai’i vigil in solidarity with Okinawa
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 »
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 »
NY Times coverage of Okinawa anti-base protest
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/26/world/asia/26okinawa.html?hp 90,000 Protest U.S. Base on Okinawa Kyodo News, via Associated Press Protesters packed an athletic field in the town of Yomitanson in Okinawa, Japan, to demand that a U.S. Marine base be moved. By MARTIN FACKLER Published: April 25, 2010 TOKYO — More than 90,000 Okinawans rallied Sunday to oppose the relocation of an… Read more »
One hundred thousand rally against U.S. military bases in Okinawa
According to reports from Okinawan and Japanese sources, today (yesterday, in Japan) approximately 95,000 people attended a mass rally in Tomitan to oppose the U.S. military bases in Okinawa. Several English language news stories are included below. They report the numbers as 90,000, but there were thousands more who were unable to make it to… Read more »
Japan Prime Minister: new U.S. airbase in Okinawa “must never happen”
http://ph.news.yahoo.com/afp/20100424/tap-japan-us-military-diplomacy-d1078a1_1.html Japan PM rules out 2006 deal on US base on eve of rally – Sunday, April 25 TOKYO (AFP) – – Japan’s premier ruled out a plan for a new US airbase on Okinawa island Saturday, on the eve of a mass rally against the planned facility, in a row that has soured ties… Read more »
Islands of Peace: Jeju mayor sends solidarity message to Okinawa,
Solidarity Message to Okinawa By Kang Dong-Kyun, Mayor of Gangjeong village, Jeju Island, Korea The Peace of the Okinawa is the Peace of the World. The Peace of the Jeju is the Peace of the World. Therefore to keep Okinawa and Jeju is to keep the peace of the world. Let’s keep Okinawa and Jeju… Read more »
Solidarity Statement from the Members of the Network for Okinawa
http://closethebase.org/2010/04/22/solidarity-statement-from-the-members-of-the-network-for-okinawa/ Solidarity Statement from the Members of the Network for Okinawa April 25, 2010 Network for Okinawa We, the members of the Network for Okinawa, represent many hundreds of thousands of Americans and people around the world who support democracy and environmental protection in Okinawa. Our grassroots network draws together representatives from U.S. and international… 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 »
Solidarity for Guam grows in the U.S.: Famoksaiyan launches a new blog
The West Coast branch of Famoksaiyan, a Chamorro network working to resist the U.S. military expansion in their homeland, has launched a new blog to keep people up to date on the struggle for justice in the Marianas. It is a new and important link in the growing network of demilitarization groups and movements against… Read more »
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