Aloha kakou, About 40-50 people in total turned out, during the nearly 3 and l/2 hour protest at today’s Hilo Veterans Parade. The protest focus was the U.S. illegal wars of aggression and occupation in Iraq and Afghanistan and the military including vehicles from Pohakuloa Training Area (PTA) recently returned from Iraq. Among those present… Read more »
Posts Tagged: Movements and Resistance
ATSDR: Change in Public Policy regarding Vieques
PRESS RELEASE FROM CASA PUEBLO, Adjuntas, Puerto Rico, via Atlanta, GA, USA, to Vieques, Puerto Rico ATSDR: Change in Public Policy regarding Vieques Drs. Arturo Massol Deyá of Casa Pueblo de Adjuntas / UPR Mayagüez, Carmen Ortiz Roque, and Carmen Colón de Jorge participated in extensive discovery meetings about scientific investigations of Vieques in the… Read more »
Hilo groups will protest Strykers on parade
According to the Honolulu Advertiser article Strykers will be included in the Hilo Veterans parade: Organizers hoped to keep word of the vehicles a secret from peace activists like Jim Albertini of the Malu Aina Center for Non-Violent Education and Action, in an attempt to ward off conflict. Albertini found out anyway, and on Sunday… Read more »
Strykers (and DU) on Parade in Hilo?
Mahalo to Joan Conrow and the Hawaii Independent for this article about Hilo residents’ opposition to Strykers and possible Depleted Uranium contamination being in the Veteran’s Day Parade. >><< http://thehawaiiindependent.com/page-one/read/veterans-parade-hit-with-du-concerns/ Hilo Veterans’ Day parade hit with depleted uranium concerns Nov 05, 2009 – 12:35 PM | By Joan Conrow | The Hawaii Independent HILO—Plans to… Read more »
U.S. basing and war plans threaten peace in Korea
A friend in the Korean peace movement pointed out that the decision to keep the Eighth Army headquarters in Korea is in line with the controversial OPLAN 5029, an a U.S. military operational plan for a war and invasion of North Korea. The plan had been only drafted as a “Conceptual plan” or CONPLAN until… Read more »
Another article on the 8th Army HQ remaining in Korea
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2009/11/205_55022.html 11-06-2009 18:04 8th US Army to Remain in Korea By Jung Sung-ki Staff Reporter The Eighth U.S. Army (EUSA) will remain in South Korea even after Korean commanders take over wartime operational control (OPCON) of its forces from the U.S. military in 2012, the U.S. Forces Korea (USFK) announced Friday. The United States will… Read more »
84-year old WWII veteran/peace activist injured by military guards at Vandenberg protest
A Message from Vandenberg protestors (November 5, 2009): Yesterday November 4th, during the longstanding peace vigil at the front gate of Vandenberg Air Force Base three people were arrested. Dennis Apel was cited for the “ban and bar” that the base has against him. Two other protesters who were in the designated protest area and… Read more »
U.S. 8th Army headquarters will stay in Korea
http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/NEWKHSITE/data/html_dir/2009/11/07/200911070015.asp U.S. Army headquarters to stay The U.S. military in Korea has scrapped an idea to relocate its key Army headquarters to Hawaii, in a move to reaffirm its commitment to the defense of South Korea, a military source said yesterday. “I understand that the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff and the U.S. Army have… Read more »
Fort Hood soldiers’ shooting rampage, 12 killed, 31 wounded
Tragic. Army officer, psychiatrist kills fellow soldiers? What’s going on? >><< http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/20091105/BREAKING/91105050/1352 Updated at 12:30 p.m., Thursday, November 5, 2009 Shooters who killed 12, wounded 31 at Fort Hood are soldiers Associated Press FORT HOOD, Texas — The U.S. Army says 12 people have been killed and 31 wounded today in a shooting rampage on… Read more »
Tip of the Spear
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTrDl8k9CEM This year US General Bice announced that Guam will be the site of ‘the largest military build-up in the history of the US’. Locals say that the communities indigenous to this small Pacific island will not survive. Guam is a political anomaly: A US territory where citizens do not have US voting-rights and where… Read more »
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