Posts Tagged: Movements and Resistance

U.S. military personnel advised to avoid Yomitan, where 100,000 expected to attend anti-base rally

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http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=69515 Okinawa rally could draw 100,000 people By David Allen, Stars and Stripes Pacific edition, Friday, April 23, 2010 GINOWAN, Okinawa — The U.S. military on Okinawa is advising Department of Defense personnel and their families to stay away from the village of Yomitan on Sunday, where a large anti-base rally is scheduled. Organizers said… Read more »

Network for Okinawa announces solidarity actions to protest U.S. military bases in Okinawa

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http://closethebase.org/ FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 20, 2010 CONTACT: John Feffer, Institute for Policy Studies johnf@ips-dc.org, 202-234-9382, cell: 510-282-8983 New U.S.-Japan coalition demands closure of the Futenma U.S. Marine Corps base and opposes the construction of new bases in Okinawa and Tokunoshima; Holds rally in Washington and posts full-page ad in Washington Post Washington – April… Read more »

U.S. Military Bases and Funshi (Feng Shui)

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ANTHROPOLOGY COLLOQUIUM SERIES U.S. Military Bases and Funshi (Feng Shui): The Anti-Base Movement and Community Development in Yomitan, Okinawa Tomoaki Hara Associate Professor of Anthropology, Shizuoka University, Japan Thursday, April 22nd at 3:00 pm, in Crawford Hall 115 The 1997 city master plan of Yomitan Village, Okinawa, is unique in all of Japan in that… Read more »

Hawaii Okinawa Alliance: Candlelight Peace Vigil for Okinawa

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Sunset Candlelight Peace Vigil for Okinawa Japanese Consulate Honolulu Nu`uanu Avenue & Kuakini, Sunday, April 25, 2010, 6pm This Sunday in Okinawa, as well as throughout Japan, Washington, D.C. and here in O`ahu, hundreds of thousands of supporters of demilitarizing Okinawa will be rallying to close down Futenma Marine Corps Airstation in the middle of… Read more »

Iraq Vets: Coverage of Atrocities Is Too Little, Too Late

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http://www.truthout.org/iraq-vets-coverage-atrocities-is-too-little-too-late58527 Iraq Vets: Coverage of Atrocities Is Too Little, Too Late Tuesday 13 April 2010 by: Dahr Jamail, t r u t h o u t | Report (Image: Jared Rodriguez / t r u t h o u t; Adapted: Spc. Jeffery Sandstrum / U.S. Army, thomas.merton) The WikiLeaks video footage from Iraq taken… Read more »

Jeju update: Farmers are being pushed out to make way for the Naval base

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I’m reposting the recent update from Sung Hee Choi about the struggle against a proposed naval base in Jeju, South Korea.  While the base is a South Korean military base, it is a part of the overall U.S. strategy for Northeast Asia to encircle China with missile defense systems.  Villagers have fought vigorously against the… Read more »

‘Collateral Murder’ veterans apologize to the Iraqi people

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http://org2.democracyinaction.org/o/5966/t/9615/p/salsa/web/common/public/content?content_item_KEY=2491 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 15th, 2010 Contact: Laura Taylor: 202-510-3711 info@civsol.org VETERANS OF “WIKILEAKS” INCIDENT ANNOUNCE “LETTER OF RECONCILIATION” TO IRAQIS INJURED IN ATTACK Two former soldiers from the Army unit responsible for the Wikileaks “Collateral Murder” incident have written an open-letter of “Reconciliation and Responsibility” to those injured in the July 2007 attack,… Read more »

Vet kills himself in front of Dayton vet center

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http://www.daytondailynews.com/news/veteran-commits-suicide-in-front-of-dayton-va-center-656012.html Did war vet kill self to make a statement? Man had been in VA emergency room earlier in the morning. By Lucas Sullivan and Margo Rutledge Kissell Staff Writers Updated 11:23 PM Friday, April 16, 2010 DAYTON — Jesse Charles Huff walked up to the Veterans Affairs Department’s Medical Center on Friday morning wearing… Read more »

Koohan Paik/Nation: Living at the ‘Tip of the Spear’

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http://www.thenation.com/doc/20100503/paik/print Living at the ‘Tip of the Spear’ By Koohan Paik This article appeared in the May 3, 2010 edition of The Nation. April 15, 2010 I was born in Pasadena in 1961 but raised in South Korea and other Pacific Rim locales, finally settling in Hawaii. During my coming-of-age years, between 1971 and 1982,… Read more »

Tokunoshima residents reject idea of a new U.S. air base

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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 »