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DESCRIPTION:War and militarization are the Earth’s greatest enemies, and this remains 
 especially true in Okinawa, Japan. The Battle of Okinawa during WWII 
 decimated 200,000 human lives and destroyed much of the environment in the 
 prefecture. The militarization of Okinawa, carried out by the U.S. 
 occupation of Okinawa from 1945 to 1972, has created a dreadful situation: 
 Okinawa, while accounting for only 0.6 percent of Japan’s land mass, 
 bears approximately 70 percent of the land area used for U.S. military 
 bases in Japan. As a consequence, the people of Okinawa have been forced to 
 live with and fight against water and land contamination, unbearable noise 
 from aircraft, the danger of aircraft crashes, and other forms of 
 environmental destruction by the U.S. military.\n\nIn this open press 
 conference, Abby Martin, an American journalist and filmmaker known for her 
 anti-war and anti-militarization documentaries, will introduce her film 
 “The U.S. Military: Planet Earth’s Greatest Enemy” and provide an 
 overview of how the U.S. military is destroying the Earth. Hideki 
 Yoshikawa, an Okinawan scholar and activist, will explain how the Japanese 
 and U.S. governments are destroying the environment of Henoko-Oura Bay in 
 Okinawa, one of the areas richest in biodiversity in Japan, through the 
 construction of an air base there, and how the people of Okinawa and the 
 environment have fought back.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2024/06/07/18867142.php
SUMMARY:Militarization: Destroying the Environment in Okinawa and the World
LOCATION:Zoom (Registration link is below)
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2024/06/07/18867142.php
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