http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/14/science/earth/14vieques.html?_r=1 Navy’s Vieques Training May Be Tied to Health Risks By MIREYA NAVARRO Published: November 13, 2009 The federal agency that assesses health hazards at sites designated for Superfund environmental cleanups said Friday that it had reversed its conclusion that contamination at a former United States Navy training ground in Puerto Rico posed no health… Read more »
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ATSDR to Change its Early Conclusions on Environmental Assessment in Vieques
The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) is notorious for discounting the environmental health concerns of communities. In several cases, the agency has been forced to redo its studies due to faulty or biased data and conclusions. The people of Vieques initially boycotted the ATSDR because of its bad reputation. In Hawai’i ATSDR… Read more »
Korean Naval Base on Jeju Island is a terrible idea
Bruce Gagnon of the Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space was recently on a whirlwind speaking tour of Korea. This article talks about the opposition to a proposed Korean naval base in Jeju island. Jeju is a world heritage peace island, with beautiful volcanic peaks and semi-tropical weather, pristine waters abundant with… Read more »
NYT article about Okinawan opposition to U.S. bases
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/12/world/asia/12okinawa.html?_r=1 Okinawans Grow Impatient With Dashed Hopes on U.S. Base By MARTIN FACKLER Published: November 11, 2009 GINOWAN, Japan — Okinawans like Zenji Shimada, who have spent most of their lives under the thudding of helicopters from a busy American air base, are accustomed to disappointment. Decades of complaints about the base here and others… Read more »
New Law Limits Military use of Open Burn Pits
Doug from Seacoast Anti-Pollution League in Portsmouth, New Hampshire sent a post to the Military Toxics Project listserve about a new law to limit the military use of open burn pits overseas. However, as Doug notes the law “Doesn’t cover domestic bases, nor everything we’d want left unburned, but DoD has to develop a plan… Read more »
Gavan McCormack: “Yet Another ‘Battle of Okinawa'”
This Op Ed published in the Japan Times is critical of the “colonial” nature of the so-called Guam Treaty which provides for the relocation of U.S. Marines from Okinawa to Guam, commits Japan to foot most of the bill, allows the expansion of the military base at Henoko, Okinawa, and overrides many of Japan’s own… Read more »
Japan government out of touch with Okinawan concerns about U.S. bases
http://mdn.mainichi.jp/features/news/20091109p2a00m0na021000c.html Gov’t out of touch with the real problems Okinawans over U.S. military presence The charred Javanese bishopwood trees are a pitiful sight, a lasting reminder of the U.S. military helicopter crash on the campus of Okinawa International University on Aug. 13, 2004, just south of U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma. Noriyoshi Miyagi, 67,… Read more »
Okinawa Governor greeted in Honolulu with anti-bases message while thousands protest bases in Okinawa
Over the weekend there were massive protests in Okinawa against the expansion of a U.S. military base in Henoko, Okinawa. Below are two articles about the demonstrations. But where was Okinawa’s Governor Nakaima? The pro-base politician was on a trip, dodging a confrontation with the protest movement. Instead of facing his own constituency, Nakaima was… Read more »
Dahr Jamail: Mass Shooting Indicates Breakdown of Military
http://www.truthout.org/11050912 Mass Shooting Indicates Breakdown of Military Thursday 05 November 2009 by: Dahr Jamail, t r u t h o u t | Report At approximately 1:30 p.m. CST today, a soldier went on a shooting rampage at Fort Hood in Killeen, Texas, killing 12 people and wounding at least 31 others, according to base… Read more »
“The Good Soldier” opens Veteran’s Day November 11
The Good Soldier http://thegoodsoldier.com/index.html Directed by Lexy Lovell and Michael Uys (DGA, Los Angeles Film Critics, and Peabody Award winners for Riding the Rails) The Good Soldier follows the journeys of five combat veterans from different generations of American wars as they sign up, go into battle, and eventually change their minds about what it… Read more »
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