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Hawaii's War Against War Has a Very Human Face
These fragile volcanic islands swirl like glittering jewels in the vast Pacific Ocean, half-way between East and West. Like the corpus callosum of your brain, local Hawaiian culture integrates the best of both hemispheres of the planet. Pro-Peace Activists around the globe are rushing to meet the deadline for submitting comments to the U. S. Army, to stop the stationing of 320 heavy-armored, eight-wheeled Stryker vehicles in Hawaii. But the longer journey toward DMZ Hawaii has just begun. "NO to Strykers, YES to Aloha,” is only one milestone in the larger wave of Hawaiian Activist Movement focused on spreading the Aloha and strengthening the DMZ Hawaii Movement.
"Peace does not come through force.
Peace is achieved through understanding."
-- Albert Einstein
(Kailua-Kona, Hawaii) These fragile volcanic islands swirl like glittering jewels in the vast Pacific Ocean, half-way between East and West. Like the corpus callosum of your brain, local Hawaiian culture integrates the best of both hemispheres of the planet.
Tourist brochures depict families of visitors lolling about on the beach, but few local Hawaiian Activists have time to waste. Together with Activists around the globe, they are rushing to meet the October 30 deadline for submitting comments to the U. S. Army, to stop the stationing of 320 heavy-armored, eight-wheeled Stryker vehicles in Hawaii.
The Army Stryker plan, put together by the Pentagon and Bush War Planners in the panicked months following 911, would bring 600 other vehicles, 4,000 employees, and their spouses and kids, to military bases that the Army admitted to having 45 radioactive sites -- too radioactive for human habitation according to most reputable scientists.
The deadline to say “NO to Strykers, YES to Aloha,” is near, but it is only one milestone in the larger wave of Hawaiian Activist commotion focused on strengthening the DMZ Hawaii Movement.
The DMZ Hawaii Movement that has a very human face when you consider Kiave, an 11-year-old boy from Kane’ohe on Oahu.
Kiave has cancer, as does his friend Kekoa, 8, from Waikola on the Big Island.
When Kekoa was four, his doctor discovered a neuroblastoma, which robbed him of his childhood. “He hasn’t been able to play in the water,” says his aunt, Theresa Potter, a health professional in West Hawaii.. “He needed a feeding tube because he kept throwing up his chemo medicine.” Kiave’s surgical wound could be infected in the water, and not just because of run-of-the-mill staph and strep germs.
Unnatural, radioactive toxins that kill, maim, and last millions and billions of years have been dumped repeatedly by the U. S. Military in waters surrounding the stunning necklace of islands that were an independent nation until 1893, when the U. S. Military began its illegal occupation.
“It is long past time to end that occupation,” says Jim Albertini of the Malu `Aina Center For Non-violent Education & Action in Ola’a. “(The Military should) clean up all the military opala (rubbish) you have, and then exit Hawaii as the U.S. should be doing in Iraq as well,” he writes.
Kiave and Kekoa couldn’t agree more. Ordinary kid things, like surfing, swimming, and canoeing, are off-limits in the areas around Pearl Harbor and the Pohakuloa Army Training Area where cancer rates have soared, and where the Army has dumped toxins near homes.
The very tragic human face of the “friendly” occupation of Hawaii by the U. S. Army includes diseases like diabetes, asthma, skin lesions, brain tumors, and leukemia, all rarely found in children. Excessive disease has been directly caused by the Army’s toxic and radioactive contamination, affecting both innocent civilians and U. S. soldiers who suffer from radiation poisoning with increasing frequency. The Pentagon has misled thousands of its own troops as well, by giving them nuclear weapons to fire in Fallujah, practice with at Schofield Barracks on Oahu, and ruin people’s lives while telling them there is no risk.
There is enormous risk. In the recent wars in Bosnia, Kosovo and the Gulf War, more than 31,000 missiles were launched against enemy lines containing Depleted Uranium, and more than 300 ton of DU has been used in Gulf War.
DU is a radioactive and toxic element. In humans it can cause lung cancer, damage to the liver and kidney affecting the bone marrow and consequently destroying stem cells that form the white cells resulting in mutations and the long lasting effect of genetic damage
“We’d just like to know,” says Lindafaye Kroll, R.N., who formed the group, Protect Hawaii (http://www.protecthawaii.ws) after she saw the outrageous statistic that one in 17 Hawaiian children is born with a birth defect. “Where is the radiation monitoring, the testing, the health surveys, the clean up and remediation we need in Hawaii?”
With 871 contaminated sites in the Hawaiian archipelago, everyone wants the Army to clean up their unexploded ordnance and stop running vehicles, people, and equipment through areas where radioactive uranium has been discovered. Stirring up proven radioactive material disturbs a dangerous and lethal radioactive dust which would worsen an already deadly situation – and send fiery molecules of death around the globe.
Most Hawaiians agree with one frustrated activist from the Kohala Coast:”871 contaminated sites in the archipelago? How many more do we need before the balance is tipped?”
“We want the military to follow its own laws!” says Shannon Rudolph. “Everyone wants free, ‘REAL’ DU testing for all residents! The thousand-dollar test!!! Everyone wants the military to follow is own laws to give medical care to anyone harmed ...and in regard to clean-up? Close and pave Pohakuloa and every live fire range across the country that used DU!
“Everyone wants to know why the cancer rates, birth defects, thyroid, immune and neurological problems are so high downwind! Why are feral cats sick on the western slopes of Mauna Kea? Why are hunters reporting a greatly increased amount of tumors in sheep and goats? Hawaii residents want an INDEPENDENT monitor, NOW!”
The October 30 Deadline to oppose the Strykers (please write now – NO to STrykers: Send to PublicComments [at] aec.apgea.army.mil) but it is only one stage in larger wave of opposition to the U. S. Army’s “invasion” of Hawaiian lands.
The Hawaiian islands have matured into a distinctive culture that blends what is hip, modern, holistic, Oriental, and technological, with deep roots in the mystical and historical past. Anyone who has visited Hawaii and stepped outside the dair conditioning of the Sheraton or Waikiki Holiday Inn comes away with an expanded sense of themselves.
Hawaii awakens senses most people never knew they had. The heavenly heights on top of the ancient Mauna Kea Volcano, so large it causes a wobble in the planet’s orbit, contrast with dramatic sea depths where manta rays, dolphin, and whales nudge up in crevices and sweep majestically across the horizon on silvery, white-capped waves.
The Hawaiian Activists Movement has a long history that goes all the way back to 1893. Today, Hawaii’s location in one of the most significant geo-political spots in the world, halfway between China and San Francisco, makes it a key player in both War Games and the Peace Movement.
With most of the Hawaiian working classes needing two or three jobs to make ends meet in the high-priced celebrity playground, where people like Oprah and Steven Spielberg have lavish estates, Activists have expanded their base of support here and around the world, because they realize, “As goes DMZ Hawaii, so goes the world.”
Standing up to the Military here, declaring war against war, saying YES to Aloha, and spreading the Peace, is a Movement whose time has come.
Marya Mann, Ph. D
Co-Author, with the Dalai Lama, Helen Caldicott, & Barbara Marx-Hubbard of HEALING OUR PLANET, HEALING OURSELVES
http://www.maryamann.com
http://www.livingwithaloha.blogspot.com
You can help by sending your comment “NO TO STRYKERS in HAWAII!” to PublicComments@ aec.apgea.army.mil.
Please learn more… Help Us Save Hawai’i and sign the following petition at:
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/2/help-save-hawaii
Then, please forward to everyone you know!
READ WHY the Stryker Brigade must not stay in Hawaii!
Ten Reasons to Oppose the Stryker Brigade in Hawaii
http://www.dmzhawaii.org/stop_stryker_hawaii.pdf
Army Regulation AR 700-48 "Management of Equipment Contaminated With Depleted Uranium or Radioactive Commodities," Headquarters, Department of the Army, Washington, D.C., September 2002, Section 2-4 of United States Army Regulation 700-48 dated Sept. 16, 2002, specifies these requirements.
http://www.traprockpeace.org/du_pam_700-48.pdf
Hawaiian Islands Are Radioactive
http://www.indymedia.org/en/2007/10/893755.shtml
Depleted Uranium Contamination By Strykers In Hawaii
http://www.indymedia.org/it/2007/09/893176.shtml
Death By Breath
http://www.indymedia.org/en/2007/10/893823.shtml
Hawaiian Islands Contaminated With Ballistic Uranium
http://www.rense.com/general78/hawa.htm
No Peace in Paradise by Kyle Kajihiro
http://www.haleakalatimes.com/news/story2527.aspx
Army’s Environmental Impact Statement for the Stryker Brigade Invasion of Hawaii:
http://www.sbct-seis.org/
Go to Demilitarize Hawaii
http://dmzhawaii.org
Go to Protect Hawaii website:
http://www.protecthawaii.ws/
Peace is achieved through understanding."
-- Albert Einstein
(Kailua-Kona, Hawaii) These fragile volcanic islands swirl like glittering jewels in the vast Pacific Ocean, half-way between East and West. Like the corpus callosum of your brain, local Hawaiian culture integrates the best of both hemispheres of the planet.
Tourist brochures depict families of visitors lolling about on the beach, but few local Hawaiian Activists have time to waste. Together with Activists around the globe, they are rushing to meet the October 30 deadline for submitting comments to the U. S. Army, to stop the stationing of 320 heavy-armored, eight-wheeled Stryker vehicles in Hawaii.
The Army Stryker plan, put together by the Pentagon and Bush War Planners in the panicked months following 911, would bring 600 other vehicles, 4,000 employees, and their spouses and kids, to military bases that the Army admitted to having 45 radioactive sites -- too radioactive for human habitation according to most reputable scientists.
The deadline to say “NO to Strykers, YES to Aloha,” is near, but it is only one milestone in the larger wave of Hawaiian Activist commotion focused on strengthening the DMZ Hawaii Movement.
The DMZ Hawaii Movement that has a very human face when you consider Kiave, an 11-year-old boy from Kane’ohe on Oahu.
Kiave has cancer, as does his friend Kekoa, 8, from Waikola on the Big Island.
When Kekoa was four, his doctor discovered a neuroblastoma, which robbed him of his childhood. “He hasn’t been able to play in the water,” says his aunt, Theresa Potter, a health professional in West Hawaii.. “He needed a feeding tube because he kept throwing up his chemo medicine.” Kiave’s surgical wound could be infected in the water, and not just because of run-of-the-mill staph and strep germs.
Unnatural, radioactive toxins that kill, maim, and last millions and billions of years have been dumped repeatedly by the U. S. Military in waters surrounding the stunning necklace of islands that were an independent nation until 1893, when the U. S. Military began its illegal occupation.
“It is long past time to end that occupation,” says Jim Albertini of the Malu `Aina Center For Non-violent Education & Action in Ola’a. “(The Military should) clean up all the military opala (rubbish) you have, and then exit Hawaii as the U.S. should be doing in Iraq as well,” he writes.
Kiave and Kekoa couldn’t agree more. Ordinary kid things, like surfing, swimming, and canoeing, are off-limits in the areas around Pearl Harbor and the Pohakuloa Army Training Area where cancer rates have soared, and where the Army has dumped toxins near homes.
The very tragic human face of the “friendly” occupation of Hawaii by the U. S. Army includes diseases like diabetes, asthma, skin lesions, brain tumors, and leukemia, all rarely found in children. Excessive disease has been directly caused by the Army’s toxic and radioactive contamination, affecting both innocent civilians and U. S. soldiers who suffer from radiation poisoning with increasing frequency. The Pentagon has misled thousands of its own troops as well, by giving them nuclear weapons to fire in Fallujah, practice with at Schofield Barracks on Oahu, and ruin people’s lives while telling them there is no risk.
There is enormous risk. In the recent wars in Bosnia, Kosovo and the Gulf War, more than 31,000 missiles were launched against enemy lines containing Depleted Uranium, and more than 300 ton of DU has been used in Gulf War.
DU is a radioactive and toxic element. In humans it can cause lung cancer, damage to the liver and kidney affecting the bone marrow and consequently destroying stem cells that form the white cells resulting in mutations and the long lasting effect of genetic damage
“We’d just like to know,” says Lindafaye Kroll, R.N., who formed the group, Protect Hawaii (http://www.protecthawaii.ws) after she saw the outrageous statistic that one in 17 Hawaiian children is born with a birth defect. “Where is the radiation monitoring, the testing, the health surveys, the clean up and remediation we need in Hawaii?”
With 871 contaminated sites in the Hawaiian archipelago, everyone wants the Army to clean up their unexploded ordnance and stop running vehicles, people, and equipment through areas where radioactive uranium has been discovered. Stirring up proven radioactive material disturbs a dangerous and lethal radioactive dust which would worsen an already deadly situation – and send fiery molecules of death around the globe.
Most Hawaiians agree with one frustrated activist from the Kohala Coast:”871 contaminated sites in the archipelago? How many more do we need before the balance is tipped?”
“We want the military to follow its own laws!” says Shannon Rudolph. “Everyone wants free, ‘REAL’ DU testing for all residents! The thousand-dollar test!!! Everyone wants the military to follow is own laws to give medical care to anyone harmed ...and in regard to clean-up? Close and pave Pohakuloa and every live fire range across the country that used DU!
“Everyone wants to know why the cancer rates, birth defects, thyroid, immune and neurological problems are so high downwind! Why are feral cats sick on the western slopes of Mauna Kea? Why are hunters reporting a greatly increased amount of tumors in sheep and goats? Hawaii residents want an INDEPENDENT monitor, NOW!”
The October 30 Deadline to oppose the Strykers (please write now – NO to STrykers: Send to PublicComments [at] aec.apgea.army.mil) but it is only one stage in larger wave of opposition to the U. S. Army’s “invasion” of Hawaiian lands.
The Hawaiian islands have matured into a distinctive culture that blends what is hip, modern, holistic, Oriental, and technological, with deep roots in the mystical and historical past. Anyone who has visited Hawaii and stepped outside the dair conditioning of the Sheraton or Waikiki Holiday Inn comes away with an expanded sense of themselves.
Hawaii awakens senses most people never knew they had. The heavenly heights on top of the ancient Mauna Kea Volcano, so large it causes a wobble in the planet’s orbit, contrast with dramatic sea depths where manta rays, dolphin, and whales nudge up in crevices and sweep majestically across the horizon on silvery, white-capped waves.
The Hawaiian Activists Movement has a long history that goes all the way back to 1893. Today, Hawaii’s location in one of the most significant geo-political spots in the world, halfway between China and San Francisco, makes it a key player in both War Games and the Peace Movement.
With most of the Hawaiian working classes needing two or three jobs to make ends meet in the high-priced celebrity playground, where people like Oprah and Steven Spielberg have lavish estates, Activists have expanded their base of support here and around the world, because they realize, “As goes DMZ Hawaii, so goes the world.”
Standing up to the Military here, declaring war against war, saying YES to Aloha, and spreading the Peace, is a Movement whose time has come.
Marya Mann, Ph. D
Co-Author, with the Dalai Lama, Helen Caldicott, & Barbara Marx-Hubbard of HEALING OUR PLANET, HEALING OURSELVES
http://www.maryamann.com
http://www.livingwithaloha.blogspot.com
You can help by sending your comment “NO TO STRYKERS in HAWAII!” to PublicComments@ aec.apgea.army.mil.
Please learn more… Help Us Save Hawai’i and sign the following petition at:
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/2/help-save-hawaii
Then, please forward to everyone you know!
READ WHY the Stryker Brigade must not stay in Hawaii!
Ten Reasons to Oppose the Stryker Brigade in Hawaii
http://www.dmzhawaii.org/stop_stryker_hawaii.pdf
Army Regulation AR 700-48 "Management of Equipment Contaminated With Depleted Uranium or Radioactive Commodities," Headquarters, Department of the Army, Washington, D.C., September 2002, Section 2-4 of United States Army Regulation 700-48 dated Sept. 16, 2002, specifies these requirements.
http://www.traprockpeace.org/du_pam_700-48.pdf
Hawaiian Islands Are Radioactive
http://www.indymedia.org/en/2007/10/893755.shtml
Depleted Uranium Contamination By Strykers In Hawaii
http://www.indymedia.org/it/2007/09/893176.shtml
Death By Breath
http://www.indymedia.org/en/2007/10/893823.shtml
Hawaiian Islands Contaminated With Ballistic Uranium
http://www.rense.com/general78/hawa.htm
No Peace in Paradise by Kyle Kajihiro
http://www.haleakalatimes.com/news/story2527.aspx
Army’s Environmental Impact Statement for the Stryker Brigade Invasion of Hawaii:
http://www.sbct-seis.org/
Go to Demilitarize Hawaii
http://dmzhawaii.org
Go to Protect Hawaii website:
http://www.protecthawaii.ws/
For more information:
http://www.livingwithaloha.blogspot.com
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