For more photos, please see here: http://nobasestorieskorea.blogspot.com/2010/03/gangjeong-is-strong-and.html http://space4peace.blogspot.com/2010/03/jeju-island-farmers-continue-to-resist.html Monday, March 08, 2010 JEJU ISLAND FARMERS CONTINUE TO RESIST NAVY BASE It has been raining on and off for more than a month in the Gangjeong village. Still the lights in the tents have never been put out in the nights. About 4-5 people in shifts… Read more »
Posts Tagged: Movements and Resistance
The Travails of a Client State: An Okinawan Angle on the 50th Anniversary of the US-Japan Security Treaty
Gavan McCormack provides an excellent analysis of Japan’s ‘client state’ position, the anti-bases movement in Okinawa and the crisis it represents for the US-Japan Security Treaty. He links the bases issue to “poison” of war and occupation of other countries: While official 50th anniversary commemorations celebrate the US military as the source of the “oxygen”… Read more »
Militarization would desecrate Pagat, Chamorro sacred site
http://mvguam.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=11119:sacrilege-in-pagat&catid=29:letter-to-the-editor&Itemid=62 From the Marianas Variety Sacrilege in Pagat Friday, 26 February 2010 01:58 Letter to the Editor WHAT is Pagat? For the people who wrote the draft environmental impact statement, it is nothing more than a place to shoot off high-powered guns. For some people, it is worthless jungle, just as lattes and lusongs are… Read more »
Japanese groups conduct fact-finding visit to Guam
http://mvguam.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=11256:fact-finding-mission&catid=1:guam-local-news&Itemid=2 Fact-finding mission Friday, 05 March 2010 01:20 by Mar-Vic Cagurangan | Variety News Staff Japanese lobby groups coming to Guam A 20-MEMBER delegation consisting of representatives from an influential coalition of Japanese lobby groups, is arriving on Guam tomorrow on a four-day fact-finding mission to assess the island’s capacity to accommodate the troops that… Read more »
Nago assembly rejects US Marine relocation option
http://www.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/08_13.html Nago assembly rejects US Marine relocation option The municipal assembly of Nago, Okinawa says it will not allow a helicopter runway to be built within a US Marine base in the city. The building of a helicopter runway within the US Marine Corps Camp Schwab is one of the options being considered by a… Read more »
U.K. proposes Chagos marine reserve that could block islanders’ return
Chagos is an Indian Ocean island possession of the UK, one of the colonies it held onto after decolonization. Britain evicted the native Chagossian population and leased the island to the U.S. military. Now Diego Garcia is one of the most important bases in America’s empire of bases. British courts except for the House of… Read more »
U.S. Tightens Missile Shield Encirclement Of China And Russia
http://rickrozoff.wordpress.com/2010/03/04/u-s-tightens-missile-shield-encirclement-of-china-and-russia/ March 4, 2010 U.S. Tightens Missile Shield Encirclement Of China And Russia Rick Rozoff So far this year the United States has succeeded in inflaming tensions with China and indefinitely holding up a new strategic arms reduction treaty with Russia through its relentless pursuit of global interceptor missile deployments. On January 29 the White… Read more »
U.S., NATO Intensify War Games Around Russia’s Perimeter
http://rickrozoff.wordpress.com/2010/03/06/u-s-nato-intensify-war-games-around-russias-perimeter/ Stop NATO March 6, 2010 U.S., NATO Intensify War Games Around Russia’s Perimeter Rick Rozoff Along with plans to base anti-ballistic missile facilities in Poland near Russia’s border (a 35 mile distance) and in Bulgaria and Romania across the Black Sea from Russia, Washington and the self-styled global military bloc it leads, the North… Read more »
Fight for Guahan delivers message to PACOM
On February 22, 2010, an international delegation representing Fight for Guahan, a group opposed to the military buildup on Guam, and DMZ-Hawai’i / Aloha ‘Aina delivered a message to Admiral Willard, Commander in Chief, Pacific Command. Joining the delegation was Colonel Ann Wright, Chamorro activist Hope Cristobal, Saipan activist and navigator Lino Olopai and filmmaker… Read more »
Okinawa leaders are adamant on moving Futenma
http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=68492 Okinawa leaders are adamant on moving Futenma By David Allen and Chiyomi Sumida, Stars and Stripes Pacific edition, Sunday, March 7, 2010 NAHA, Okinawa — Prefectural leaders, riled by news reports that Tokyo will keep Marine Corps air operations on Okinawa, said Friday they will organize an islandwide protest rally if the government follows… Read more »
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